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 Air
Traffic Control Tower
Martinsburg, West Virginia
West Virginia Air National Guard’s 167 th Airlift Wing was in
need of a new Air Traffic Control Tower to support their large C-5 transport
airplanes. Sidley Precast engineered fabricated, delivered and erected the
architectural and structural precast concrete components for the 10-story, 128
ft tall tower in less than ten months.
The geometry of the arched and inverted precast on the Air
Traffic Control Tower proved to be one of the toughest challenges the project
team had to overcome. The entire process had to be carefully crafted:
engineering of the shop drawings, coordination with bracing and framing
installed by the structural steel subcontractor, and the rigging, hoisting and
erection the precast w ithin
the limited access available. To add another degree of difficulty, the erection
took place on the 8th and 9th floors of the tower.
Technical Notes:
The main tower support shaft is comprised of approximately
12,558 SF of load bearing wall panels. The wider architectural feature above the
8th floor to the catwalk and cab level utilized 3,473 SF of architectural
precast non-load bearing wall, arch and fascia panels.
"The precaster’s engineering, fabrication and erection personnel worked
together to successfully overcome this challenge and safely install a quality
product in accordance with the project schedule."
Jesse Rice, Project Executive, Clark
Construction Group, LLC
www.rwsidley.com (800)
536-3232
www.carrconcrete.com (800)
837-8918
Precaster:
Sidley Precast Group
Contractor:
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Architect:
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, Inc. |
