Best Projects
Residential/Hospitality, Award of Merit: Marriott Uptown
Photo courtesy of Alamo Manhattan
Marriott Uptown
Dallas
Award of Merit
OWNER: Alamo Manhattan
LEAD DESIGN FIRM: WDG Architecture
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: ANDRES Construction
CIVIL ENGINEER: Spiars Engineering
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Viewtech
MEP ENGINEER: Jordan & Skala Engineers
SUBCONTRACTORS: 2clighting; Advanced Concrete Surfaces LLC; Advantage Pest Control (Lewis James Inc.) dba Advantage Pest Control; American Sneeze Guard; Amuneal Manufacturing Corp.; Arch-Fab; Architectural Fabrication; ARS - Accessibility Resource Specialist PLLC; Audio Integration Services; Benchmark Gardens LLC; Big City Access Inc.; Blue Quality Services; Capform Inc.; Centrada Solutions; Chandler Signs LLC; Chas F. Williams Co. Inc.; Cherry Coatings; City Wide Mechanical Inc.; Cleburne Sheet Metal LLC; Commercial Fireproofing & Insulation LP; Contractors Access Equipment Co.; Cummings Electrical Inc.; Desertview Services; DFW Door & Hardware LLP; DFW Glazing Inc.; Fabulous Floors Inc.; Fun N Sun Pools Inc.; Galindo & Boyd Wall Systems; Golden Quality Services; Greater Metroplex Interiors Inc.; Hayward Baker Inc.; Infassure; Inncom/Honeywell; J. S. Wilkes Co. Inc.; Kent Companies Texas LLC; Lift Aids Inc.; LindaMood Demolition; Lone Star Iron Doors; Looney & Associates; Lundy Services LLC; McDonough Elevator Sales & Rentals; Metalrite Inc.; Miner Ltd (dba Overhead Door Co. Of Dallas); Modernfold Door & Specialties; North Texas Bomanite Inc. dba Texas Bomanite
Delivered in March 2021, the 14-story Marriott Uptown contains 255 guest rooms and 22,000 sq ft of meeting and ballroom space.
Abnormal rainfall affected excavation of the garage, so the team assembled a system of pumps and sediment filter tanks to dewater the site.
During the structural elevated concrete phase, the concrete cylinder compression testing became challenging, as crews were placing concrete faster than results could be obtained. The project team came together and decided to install concrete maturity meters to report compressive strength, which prevented concrete blowouts and allowed for on-time post-tensioning and wrecking of forms.
