November 05, 2012

Marlins Park Wins “Southeast Project of the Year”

Bringing together engineering savvy, nontraditional design and the resulting lineup of considerable construction accomplishments, Miami’s Marlins Park has been named ENR Southeast’s Project of the Year.

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February 27, 2012

Metromont Projects Take Top Honors at ACI Awards Banquet
Athens Clarke Deck

Athens Clarke Deck

Ft. Benning Gateway Bridge
Ft. Benning Bridge
SCAD Museum
SCAD Museum
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Metromont Corporation, a leading provider of precast building solutions, was recognized with six awards at the recent American Concrete Institute’s Georgia Chapter awards banquet in Atlanta.

“Metromont is grateful to be recognized for our work,” explained Chris Pastorius, Vice President of Sales, Metromont Corporation. “We are delighted to produce award winning precast products that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Without the ACI and our client’s support, the recognition and resulting awards would not be possible.”

Metromont received first place honors in the following categories:

Best Parking Deck for the Athens Clarke County Parking Deck, a $16 million redevelopment project near the historic Georgia Theatre which included parking, retail and office space along with a courtyard and plaza. Metromont varied its precast in color, texture, height and offset to replicate the street level experience of other building façades in the surrounding city blocks.

Best Public Works for Fort Benning Gateway, a newly-upgraded bridge façade at the entrance of theColumbus military base. Architectural precast concrete was selected to re-clad the existing bridge and provide the 50-foot-tall pillar that supports various military statues.

Best Restoration for Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art, a historic restoration and expansion project that used a concrete wall system behind the original masonry and a thermal efficient insulated precast concrete wall wherever the masonry was missing. The results enhanced the insulating strategy, provided a tight exterior seal and created permanent support for the historic masonry.

Metromont also received Outstanding Achievement honors for the MacEachern High School Physical Education and Wellness Center in Power Springs, GA, and Awards of Excellence for the LA Fitness parking deck in Atlanta and the Reynolds Street parking deck in Augusta.

Metromont’s full line of precast and prestressed concrete solutions offers durability, aesthetics, efficient sustainability and quality while providing a budget-friendly alternative to other construction methods.

Founded in 1925, Metromont Corporation provides precast engineering solutions and manufactures architectural and structural precast building systems at six facilities located throughout the Southeast.

Photos courtesy of George Spence, Metromont Corporation.

November 17, 2011

Metromont Corporation awarded contract for Newton County High School

 

Metromont Corporation was recently awarded a contract for a 388,000 sq. ft. high school for Newton County. The project will be located on Crowell Road, a mile south of Interstate I-20 and five miles west of Covington, Georgia. The new high school will utilize a total precast building system and will be the largest school in the area. This will be a state-of-the-art school for the Newton County Board of Education. The precast walls, floors and roof system will be produced at Metromont’s Atlanta manufacturing facility.
 
Newton County School Board elected to use the total precast school design for several reasons. First, it has proven to be cost competitive with other delivery systems in other schools built in the Atlanta region. It was determined the building shell could be closed in faster using precast, which would facility the tight construction schedule. And studies show that a total precast school is less expensive to heat and cool and less expensive to maintain, compared to traditional construction systems.
 
Cunningham, Forehand, Matthews & Moore Architects is heading up the design team along with the structural engineer of record Pruitt, Eberly & Stone Structural Engineers, both of Atlanta. McKnight Construction Company, Inc. of Augusta, Georgia is the general contractor.
 
The grade work had been completed at the time of award of the contract and the school will be open for students in August 2013. The new high school is designed for 1,800 students.
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