Largo completed the Building 5A parking podium for the Gateway at Millbrae development earlier this month. The structure is seven levels above grade with retail space at street level followed by three levels of concrete parking decks and steel framed office space above.
At the corner of West Jefferson and National Blvd. Largo is pouring the concrete at the first building in southern California featuring an exoskeleton structural system with general contractor Matt Construction. The commercial building features two levels of below grade parking and 17 levels above for a total of 355,180gsf.
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The Hawthorne Elementary School topped out this month in Dallas, TX earlier this month. The low-rise project is two levels above grade totaling 81,500gsf with a 6′ tall mini basement or crawl space below. The first elevated deck above the void is cast-in-place with level two being a combination of concrete and slab-on-metal-deck. Largo is also doing the site concrete scope for the facility scheduled to open during the Fall of 2021. This is our first project with Imperial Construction, Glen Partners Architects and Alpha Consulting Engineers and we look forward to many more in the future.
701 West Magnolia
Forty miles to the west in the Near Southside district of Fort Worth, Largo is beginning construction on the 701 W Magnolia development with general contractor Muckleroy & Falls. The four level creative office building has retail on the ground floor which runs along an open-air mall. On the opposite side of the mall features historic buildings dating back 100-years . A three level parking structure is also included in the development designed by VLK Architects and L.A. Fuess Partners structural engineers. Largo is scheduled to be poured out by October 2021.
The Long Beach Courthouse, originally constructed in 1959, recently received a much needed upgrade in order to meet the region’s growing demands for state-of-the-art judicial facilities.
This upgrade by the California Judicial Council, includes the construction of a new 531,000 square-foot Courthouse, and is a financed through a unique Public-Private-Partnership between the Administrative Office of the Courts and Long Beach Judicial Partners, LLC. This revolutionary development for social infrastructure utilizes the principles of Performance Based Infrastructure (PBI), a project delivery method which appoints a privately held firm to finance, design, build, operate and maintain the facility for a period of 35-years. Nestled comfortably on a 6 acre parcel on the corner of Magnolia and Broadway, the new “L”-shaped building will house 31 state-of-the-art courtrooms, administrative offices, and a secure courtyard.
At the peak of construction this project provided nearly 450 jobs for local contractors, subcontractors, and journeymen, of which 60 proudly represented the Largo team. As a whole, Largo poured a total of 32,746 cubic yards of concrete between a concrete podium, slabs-on-metal-deck, a new transportation tower, and the retrofit of a nearby 900-stall parking structure. For the mat foundation alone Largo poured nearly 12,000 cubic yards of concrete, requiring three boom-pumps pouring at a combined rate of nearly 3,000 CY per day for five days. In order to maintain the high volumes of ready-mix deliveries coming south on the 710 Freeway, the work started at 3:00AM to mitigate delays during the rush hour.
When asked about the challenges of this design-build project, Largo’s Project Manager Justin Green explains, “I enjoyed the complexity of the design-build process. The design was constantly changing which made it a challenge but I feel that it made me a better project manager.” Justin continues, “This was a great job for Largo to showcase how well we can execute high-profile and complex concrete projects on a design-build contract.” Justin also credits his field superintendent and layout crew for their long hours and dedication in contributing to the successful completion of this complex project.
One major obstacle Largo faced was the 18-foot tall concrete basement walls, which needed to reach completion by a date that had been locked in for over 2-years in order to accommodate a delivery of structural steel to the jobsite. The design team elected to use cast-in-place walls instead of shot-crete, which put added pressure on the Largo team to form and place over 1,250 lineal feet of walls. Largo’s Project Executive Ted Rebelowski fondly recalls, “We hadn’t even finished pouring the entire mat foundation before erecting formwork for the basement walls!”
Clark Construction, the project’s design-build GC, had previously used Largo in 2009 on the successful University Gateway project in Los Angeles, and this added to heightened expectations for Largo’s team. Largo has successfully delivered on those expectations, with construction moving smoothly towards finish despite the project’s complexity and fast-track delivery schedule. Largo would also like to credit their reinforcing and excavation sub trades performed by the Commercial Metals Company (CMC) and Mike Zarp, Inc., respectively.
Largo Concrete placed and finished their last yard of concrete on June 28th of this year, and the new Courthouse is on schedule to open Fall 2013.
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Largo Concrete, Inc. is a full service self-performing structural concrete and general contractor. We have been a family-owned business for over 30 years with over 2,100 employees.
