{"id":1119,"date":"2012-01-16T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2015-06-08T02:41:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T07:41:57","slug":"tilt-up-helps-cut-budget-for-transit-maintenance-hub-by-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2012\/01\/16\/tilt-up-helps-cut-budget-for-transit-maintenance-hub-by-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilt-Up helps cut budget for transit maintenance hub by 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pivot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1120\" title=\"Pivot\" src=\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pivot-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>In its design of a new 12,600-square-foot building in Wilsonville, Oregon, PIVOT Architecture was challenged to provide functionality on a tight budget.\u00a0 The Wilsonville SMART Operations Fleet Facility will primarily serve  as a maintenance hub for the city\u2019s transit fleet and public works  vehicles. Presently, they are maintained at a Tualatin Valley Fire &amp;  Rescue facility that the city needs to vacate next year. The new  facility will be built on a site near the Wilsonville WES station, and  provide space for maintenance and office use.<\/p>\n<p>When PIVOT began work on the project, its team met with Wilsonville  officials and determined program needs to create a construction cost  estimate. That initial cost was much too high, however. \u201cIt came out to $8 million for everything they wanted,\u201d said <strong>Eric Gunderson<\/strong>, PIVOT principal-in-charge. \u201cTheir budget was only $4.8 million.\u201d To reduce cost, PIVOT downscaled plans for the building and parking lot, and switched out materials and construction systems. \u201cWe looked at a lot of different construction systems,\u201d Gunderson  said. \u201cA combination of tilt-up concrete construction and wood framing  proved to be a pretty economical system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The building now is \u201cpretty bare bones,\u201d but works well, according to Gunderson.\u00a0 \u201cWe try to make the most out of the bare bones of the building, and that includes plenty of daylight,\u201d he said.\u00a0 For the exterior, the PIVOT team considered the building\u2019s use.\u00a0 \u201cWe wanted to create a sense of motion in the exterior appearance,\u201d Gunderson said.\u00a0 The windows are laid in bands and \u201cslipped\u201d a bit from their frames.  The siding is metal, taking cues from buses. And some of the building  will be painted the lime green color that is part of the SMART transit  brand.<\/p>\n<p>Bids are being accepted from contractors, and construction is expected to start early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The PIVOT Architecture team for the project includes: Gunderson; John Stapleton, project manager; Adam Davidson, designer; Liza Lewellen, interior designer.<\/p>\n<p>Other project consultants include: Hohbach-Lewin Inc., structural engineering; Balzhiser &amp; Hubbard, mechanical engineering; GreenWorks, landscape architecture; Architectural Cost Consultants, cost estimation; Parsons Brinckerhoff, civil engineering and management consulting; Otak Inc., surveying; and Ash Creek Associates Inc., geotechnical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE | <a href=\"http:\/\/djcoregon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Journal of Commerce, Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In its design of a new 12,600-square-foot building in Wilsonville, Oregon, PIVOT Architecture was challenged to provide functionality on a tight budget.\u00a0 The Wilsonville SMART Operations Fleet Facility will primarily serve as a maintenance hub <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2012\/01\/16\/tilt-up-helps-cut-budget-for-transit-maintenance-hub-by-40\/\" title=\"Tilt-Up helps cut budget for transit maintenance hub by 40%\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}