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Award of Merit, Residential/Hospitality: Maeve - 319 W. Lenoir Street

Maeve – 319 W. Lenoir Street
Raleigh
Award of Merit
Submitted by W.M. Jordan Co.
Owner Capital Square
Lead Design Firm JDavis Architects
Construction Manager at Risk W.M. Jordan Co.
Structural Engineer Ellinwood + Machado
Civil Engineer Bohler Engineering
Interior Designer Architecture Firm
Landscape Architect EDSA
Originally envisioned as a five-story building, the team ultimately rezoned the final development as a 20-story tower with an adjacent six-story garage. The tower is clad in precast concrete with large floor-to-ceiling windows. Key material sections include GateLite—a lean architectural concrete skin offering many of the design options found with traditional architectural precast. The system provides a complete thermal, vapor and air barrier. It also eliminates onsite labor hours because fabrication and assembly are performed safely on the ground prior to delivery.
Concurrent with design of the six-story traditional architectural precast concrete garage, the team added a zero-edge swimming pool to the seventh floor over the parking garage. Additional engineering of the foundations and structural columns was needed to maximize the depth of the pool while maintaining the ceiling height of the upper garage floor. The team coordinated the design early enough to keep the project on schedule.
Additional soil borings were performed and the project team discovered underground rock formations across the site. This required blasting and the utilization of blasting mats across the site for safety. The project team also worked with the city to resolve a conflict between the project’s new sanitary sewer line and an existing 72-in. storm sewer that serviced the downtown area.
The project was delivered on schedule and on budget with no OSHA recordable incidents and no lost-time accidents.
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