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Clark Construction Group, LLC recently began construction of the $128 million Southwest Quadrangle Project at Georgetown University. Totaling over 860,000-square-feet, the project consists of four components: three new residence halls, dining facility, underground parking garage and Jesuit Community Residence.
The Southwest Quadrangle will further enhance the quality of on-campus life for Georgetown University students. Clark Construction has developed a schedule to minimize interference with the activities of the university’s students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Designed as three connected buildings offering single and double occupancy rooms, the 315,400-square-foot residence halls will provide 780 additional beds for second-year students at the University. The facilities include kitchens, seminar space, classrooms, recreation and multipurpose rooms, laundry facilities, study space, and chaplain and faculty residence apartments.
Forming a horseshoe-shape, the traditional steeply-pitched structures with A-framed rooflines includes pedestrian walkways and an open space landscape design. Detailed brickwork with cast stone is featured, as well as ornate woodwork designs.
Replacing an existing facility, the new 81,170-square-foot dining hall will serve 1200 students daily. The building retains a hybrid character, blending elements of traditional and modern design that occupies a pie-shaped footprint with an arching facade to the southwest.
A four-level, 400,000-square-foot underground parking garage framed with post tensioned concrete and structural steel will replace a surface lot and accommodate 780 vehicles. The University’s bus maintenance facility will occupy the lowest level of the garage, housing the University’s fuel cell buses - alternative fuel vehicles.
Georgetown’s Jesuit Community will relocate to a new building that will include public spaces, private quarters, and a chapel. Designed in the same traditional style, this four-story, 64,000-square-foot structure complements the new residence hall.
In addition to the Clark team, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering of Washington, D.C. is the architect of record and is providing MEP design and project administration. Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York is the design architect; Stephenson and Good of Washington, D.C. is the landscape architect; Cagley and Associates of Rockville, Md. is providing the structural engineering design; civil engineering is provided by the Alpha Corporation of Dulles, Va.; and geotechnical engineering is provided by Schabel Engineering Associates of Bethesda, Md.
The Southwest Quadrangle Project is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2003.
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