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Stapleton Business Center

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Location
Colorado, USA
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PROJECT TYPE
Tilt-up
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PROJECT TIMELINE
24 months
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PROJECT SIZE
1,035,620 sq. ft.
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CONCRETE
9,350cy
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ARCHITECT
Ware Malcomb
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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Peak Engineering
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CONCRETE
KB Concrete Systems
Stapleton Business Center North is a three-building project with a development of approximately 1 million sq. ft. in Prologis Park Stapleton. The project has easy access to 56th Avenue, Havana to Interstate 70, I-225, I-25, and E-470, and is 13 miles from Denver International Airport and just nine miles from downtown Denver. The Stapleton Business Center North was the first large-scale redevelopment at the former Stapleton International Airport.
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Ware Malcomb was honored with a 25th Annual Tilt-up Achievement Award for its work on the Prologis Stapleton Business Center North Building 1. The tilt-up warehouse is a 402,398-square-foot speculative facility and incorporates several architectural features, including lay-up panels, floating panels, and spandrels that reach over 50 feet.
The corners of the building contained three-story recessed storefront glass, covered canopies, floating panels and bearing spandrels. The complexity of the architectural details required careful planning. As an outstanding example of tilt-up concrete construction, this project is featured in TILT-UP Today Magazine. Stapleton Business Center North, Buildings 1, 2, and 3 are officially LEED® BD&C: Core and Shell v3 verified. Buildings 1 and 2 are LEED® Certified, and Building 3 is LEED® Silver!

Project Challenges

This spec warehouse incorporates several architectural tilt-up features, including lay-up panels, floating panels and spandrels that span more than 63′-0. Two corners of the building include three-story recessed storefront glass, covered canopies, and floating panels.
The main entry on the east elevation consists of a 52′-0 spandrel section supported off of inverted "L" shaped panels. The entrance has roof framing on both sides of the spandrel at different elevations. BURNCO added additional steel framing to support the high roof load, which added to the complexity of erection sequencing. The building is long and narrow and has limited site access. The panels were stack cast on the floor slab to maximize casting area and minimize crane travel.

Project Solutions

BURNCO worked with KB Concrete Systems to ensure we had mixes that would meet the engineering requirements of these buildings. KB needed to stack cast many of the panels, which meant we needed strength reasonably quickly to be able to pour on top of the previous panels to keep the project on schedule. The team also worked together to accommodate the limited site access and keep the pour schedule for the panels.

Project Awards

Ware Malcomb was honored with a 25th Annual Tilt-up Achievement Award for its work on the Prologis Stapleton Business Center North Building 1. Stapleton Business Center North Building 3 is currently up for another Tilt-up Achievement Award in 2017.

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