Project Spotlight Tour: Langan Leader, September 2021

Learn more about Langan’s involvement in our featured projects.

  • 3500 Forbes Avenue – Pittsburgh, PA
  • Former Winchester Repeating Arms Factory – New Haven, CT
  • Camden Hillcrest – San Diego, CA
  • Industrial Gas Manufacturing Facility – Lancaster, PA
  • UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building – San Francisco, CA
  • Church Street Redevelopment – Montclair, NJ

3500 Forbes Avenue

OVERVIEW
3500 Forbes Avenue is a 10-story, 485,000 GSF student housing and retail building currently in development. It’s slated to include retail space on the first floor and approximately 300 residential units (with studio, one-bed, two-bed, and three-bed configurations). Langan is providing full due diligence services, including an environmental assessment and remediation, as well as geotechnical and site/civil due diligence-level engineering. Upon completion of the due diligence phase, our site/civil team will complete full civil design of the project from concept through construction phase administration.

Location
Pittsburgh, PA

Client
CA Student Living

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental

Architects
Shepley Bulfinch
Dwell Design Studio


Former Winchester Repeating Arms Factory

OVERVIEW
Winchester Repeating Arms is a historic factory where guns were manufactured from the late 1800s to the 1980s. The project presented several unique challenges, including the remediation of oil-soaked concrete floors and completing a complicated final verification through the Connecticut Property Transfer Program. Langan's services included conducting investigations of the property; completing a remedial plan so the site can ultimately be transformed into a mixed-use development; documenting, mapping, and testing oil staining on the concrete flooring and ceilings of the building; reviewing previous hazardous building materials survey reports; and performing sampling to confirm asbestos-containing materials.

Location
New Haven, CT

Clients
L+M Development Partners
Twining Properties

Service
Environmental


Camden Hillcrest

OVERVIEW
The 160,000 SF Camden Hillcrest apartment complex on eight acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean comprises three four-story buildings with 123 apartments, a lounge area, café, fitness center, and pool. Langan investigated the subsurface and tested soil samples in support of design for the buildings, site grading, and mechanically stabilized earth walls. During construction, we observed excavations and tested for soil compaction and other geological changes. Project challenges included protecting the utility line from construction and building load surcharges, working adjacent to 100+-foot-tall slopes that had to remain untouched because of habitat areas, and the need for stormwater mitigation systems with no public system serving the property.

Location
San Diego, CA

Client
Camden

Service
Geotechnical

Architect
KTGY


Lancaster Industrial Gas Manufacturing Facility

OVERVIEW
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. operates an industrial gas manufacturing facility in Lancaster, PA. The industrial process equipment at the facility requires specific operating conditions and has the potential to foul if certain contaminants are present in the air intake and enter the system. Langan completed an air monitoring study to evaluate concentrations of hydrogen sulfide at the air intake using a hand-held monitoring device, provided an evaluation of the results, and recommended next steps.

Location
Lancaster, PA

Client
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Service
Environmental Compliance


UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building

OVERVIEW
The UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building serves as a national leader in psychiatry, psychology training, and clinical research on brain disorders. The facility features space for outpatient clinical care related to pediatric, neurology, and pre-term birth obstetric clinics, an auditorium and conference room, a central atrium, ground-floor retail, and administrative workspaces. Langan performed geotechnical investigations and environmental site characterizations for the 170,000 SF building and associated site improvements. Our subsurface explorations identified challenges including varying site grades and the presence of up to 20 feet of uncontrolled fill, soft clay (including young bay mud), steeply sloping bedrock, contaminated soil, and more. We developed design-level foundation recommendations and helped gain swift project approval from the UC Seismic Review Committee. We also conducted environmental soil sampling to delineate the extent of contaminated material and reduce disposal quantities of Class I non-RCRA hazardous material and Class II non-hazardous material excavated during construction.
AWARD
2021 ASCE San Francisco, Outstanding Geotechnical Project

Location
San Francisco, CA

Client
SKS Partners

Services
Geotechnical
Environmental

Architects
Perkins&Will
ZGF

Strategic Partners
Hathaway Dinwiddie
Tipping Structural Engineers
Farrell Design-Build


Church Street Redevelopment

OVERVIEW
The Church Street project is redeveloping a parking lot into a mixed-use, urban-infill, transit-oriented development with 74 apartments, 5,000 SF of retail space, a parking deck, and public spaces. The team prioritized sustainability throughout the project, from choosing the building system and materials to providing rooftop amenity spaces and installing energy-efficient site lighting that reduces light pollution. Langan completed the site survey for transactional and design purposes during property acquisition, as well as a combined ASTM Phase I ESA and NJDEP Preliminary Assessment Report. We also provided engineering design support for several project elements, including geotechnical investigation and foundation design, overall site layout and grading, stormwater management, landscape architecture and streetscape improvements, traffic evaluation and engineering, and utility coordination.

Location
Montclair, NJ

Client
Bijou Properties

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Traffic & Transportation
Natural Resources & Permitting

Architect
Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects

Strategic Partner
Seven24 Consulting


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