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TRAMMELL CROW CO. – WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. HEADQUARTERS

Best Practices in Sitework “While it is not technically a design/build cash flow and contractor payments.”
This project is the fifth office building project, the tight team that has been The team anticipates that the head-
Trammell Crow has built in the master- established with Turner Construction quarters will be a LEED certified project,
planned 300-acre Cranberry Woods office and the designers, tenant and owner is which both the owner and tenant are
park. Trammell Crow is assisting the land allowing us to build it as fast as we can enthusiastically focused on achieving, he
owner, Mine Safety Appliance Company, design it. says. In the past few years, Trammell
in developing it into the region’s premier “Additionally, because changes are sim- Crow has been doing more sustainable
suburban office location. The design of ply a fact of life on a project of this size, projects and encouraging employees to
this particular office project for Westing- in this timeframe, the owner, Wells REIT become LEED accredited professionals
house – by a joint venture between LLI II – Cranberry Woods, has been excep- (AP). “Many of us are either LEED APs or
Engineering and IKM Architects – distin- tional in their ability to process change [training for the certification],” he says.
guishes it from the other offices in the and work with the team as we manage “We believe it’s not only better for the
park with its use of metal panels, brick
and glass, Murray-Coleman says.
“They are doing an excellent job,” he
says. “IKM/LLI was selected by the ten-
ant because they preferred their design
philosophy and had a great working rela-
tionship. We’ve been helping them through
the approval, entitlement and implementa-
tion process, but the design is custom
to this tenant, and has required a tremen-
dous amount of communication.”
Because of the size of the project, it
was also required to meet a new set of
standards regarding on-site stormwater
runoff. These standards were set by the
Pennsylvania Department of Environ-
mental Protection and is the first proj-
ect in the area required to follow the
regulations, Murray-Coleman notes.
The entire parking area is embedded
with bio-retention swales that have storm-
water directed to them by the standard
asphalt parking areas. Designed by Civil &
Environmental Consultants (CEC) Inc.,
these swales will allow water to infiltrate
into the ground instead of being piped
directly to the stormwater detention pond.
This method doesn’t require as large of a
detention basin, and keeps more of the
rainfall on site.
“[The system] also helps in increasing
the detention time – preventing unnatu-
ral quantities of stormwater from the site
being fed into the local streams and trib-
utaries,” Murray-Coleman says. “CEC had
to work closely with the contractor to
ensure that these unique systems were
installed correctly, otherwise the desired
amount of infiltration might be restrict-
ed, and the desired effect lost.”

Team-Like Approach
“The magnitude of the project is very
large and the schedule is of paramount
importance,” Murray-Coleman says.

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