There’s a small hotel….but getting bigger…. nestledalong a curve of the Connecticut coastline where LongIsland Sound is its widest and the view seems to stretchto infinity. Still, it’s Connecticut’s only hotel, restaurant,

banquet & conference facility located directly on thebeach, dating back to 1800. Needing more space for itsmany and varied functions, a large addition is currentlyunderway.

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PRECAST CONCRETE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, INC. July 2010 Volume 21, No. 7

Focus of This Issue: Hollow Core, Building Systems, and More

Hollow Core Speeds Madison Beach Hotel Construction inBad Weather

Four floor addition underway Hollow core plank accommodates building geometry

Irregular plank layout and stair opening cutout

Oldcastle Precast Building Systems, South Bethlehem,NY supplied and installed over 35,000 sf of 10” Elematicplank, plus precast balconies, for the project. As very ob-vious in the photos, the weather was not good, with rain

making for challenging working conditions. But by the na-ture of precast plank providing immediate work decks, thishelped to avoid job schedule slippage.

Precast balcony slabs with unique integral connections(continued on page 4)

The stadium is a 6 floor, hybrid structure that is 73’ fromthe 1st floor to the upper press box floor. The overalllength of the stadium is 319’. The typical stadium riser is30’ long, cast as a double stadia cross section to reduceprecast erection time. All panels were cast using a 6500psi SCC mix which improved the mix workability andgreatly improved the overall finish. A light broom finish

was applied to the treads of the risers, and the architec-tural panels were sandblasted to give a uniform color andtextured finish. The ECAV facility is expected to achieveLEED silver status. For the ECAV, Dailey supplied 134stadium risers, 66 architectural panels, 20 stair risers, and38 flat slabs. Precast erecting was completed in 22.5days, with 2.5 days shut down due to rain.

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ECAV New Stadium Under Construction ECAV Precast Panels and Riser Sections Being Placed

Precast Stadium Risers for RPI’s New East Campus AthleticVillage (ECAV)

William E. Dailey Precast recently supplied 134 sta-dium risers for the new Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute3500 seat Football Stadium. The ECAV at Rensselaer isa newly developed area of the campus that provides in-door and outdoor facilities for athletic teams, coaches,

staff and the local community. The new complex is dividedinto strategically placed buildings enclosing the footballfield, reducing game-day sounds and light glare to neigh-borhood areas, while allowing people to filter through thesite.

New Stadium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute East Campus Athletic Village

Project credits: Rensse-laer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY, owner; SasakiAssociates, Watertown, NY,architects; The Whiting-Turner Contracting Com-pany, Framingham, MA, gen-eral contractor; William E.Dailey Precast, Shaftsbury,VT, precaster. Thanks toJared Steller and EricSchaffrick, William E. DaileyPrecast, LLC, for help withthe story and for the photos.

AIA/PCI Box LunchPrograms offered at nocost in your office. Visitour website for a list ofavailable topics, www.pcany.org, and in the lefthand column, click onEducational Programs.

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Precast Concrete Hollow Core Plank Used on New MixedUse Development

Despite a 30-foot high rock outcropping covering halfthe site, the Roscoe C. Brown Apartment project in Bronx,NY, is currently under construction. Meltzer-MandlArchitects designed the 279 units by carving out a sectionof rock for a lobby and allowing the remaining building to“float” above it on a series of shear walls. A glass lobby willlook out on a geological rock garden. The mixed use de-velopment will meet criteria for sustainability and Energy

Star Certification. Scheduled for completion in the summerof 2010, the 11-story project will revitalize an entire block inthe Bathgate section of the South Bronx. In addition to therental homes there will be retail space, administration of-fices and on-site parking. Oldcastle Precast BuildingSystems manufactured and erected 3,550 pieces of 8-inchthick hollow core plank in lengths up to 29-feet for the floorand roof components of this 254,000 sf structure.

Project credits — Meltzer Mandle Architects, New York,NY; Severud Associates, New York, NY, engineer; MegaContracting, Astoria, NY, contractor; Phipps HousesGroup / RCB Apartments, New York, NY, owner; Oldcastle

Precast Building Systems, Edgewood, MD, precast sup-plier and erector. Thanks to Monica Schultes, OldcastleBuilding Systems, for supplying this article (photos andfacts).

8” plank for the Roscoe C. Brown Apartments

Simple wall bracing holds panels until all connections arecomplete

Price Chopper Store taking shape in Shrewsbury, MA(continued on page 4)

Oldcastle Precast Building Systems manufactured anderected 254,000 sf of 8” thick precast concrete hollow coreplank for the Roscoe C. Brown Apartments.

Price Chopper, Known For Value, Values Precast InsulatedConcrete Wall Panels

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PRODUCER MEMBERSA & R Concrete Products, New Windsor, NY, 845-562-0640Bayshore Concrete Products, Cape Charles, VA, 757-331-2300Binghamton Precast & Supply, Binghamton, NY, 607-722-0334Camp Precast Concrete Products, Milton, VT, 802-893-2407J.P. Carrara & Sons, Middlebury, VT, 802-388-6361Coastal Pipeline Products Corp., Calverton, NY, 631-369-4000Dailey Precast, Shaftsbury, VT, 802-442-4418The Fort Miller Co., Inc., Schuylerville, NY, 518-695-5000Jefferson Concrete Corp., Watertown, NY, 315-788-4171Kistner Concrete Products, East Pembroke, NY, 585-762-8216Lakelands Concrete Products, Inc., Lima, NY, 585-624-1990Newcrete Products, Division of New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Center

Valley, PA, 814-224-2121Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC, Cressona, PA, 570-385-2352Oldcastle Precast, South Bethlehem, NY, 518-767-2116Oldcastle Precast Inc., Middle Island, NY, 631-924-7400Oldcastle Precast Inc., DBA Rotondo Precast, Avon, CT,

860-673-3291Roman Stone Construction Co., Bay Shore, NY, 631-667-0566Sunnycrest Inc., Auburn, NY, 315-252-7214LC Whitford Materials, Co., Inc., Wellsville, NY, 585-593-2741SEPTIC TANK PRODUCER MEMBERSBinghamton Precast & Supply, Binghamton, NY, 607-722-0334Concrete Building Supply, Champlain, NY, 518-563-0700R. Deso, Inc., Champlain, NY, 518-298-8411The Fort Miller Co., Inc., Schuylerville, NY, 518-695-5000Grimm Building Materials Co., Troy, NY, 518-272-1100Guardian Concrete Products, Schenectady, NY, 518-372-0080Jefferson Concrete Corp., Watertown, NY, 315-788-4171Keeler Vault Co., Inc., Hudson, NY, 518-851-6281Kistner Concrete Products, East Pembroke, NY, 585-762-8216Oneonta Block, Oneonta, NY, 607-432-6641Sunnycrest Inc., Auburn, NY, 315-252-7214United Concrete Products, Inc., Yalesville, CTWoodard’s Concrete Products, Inc., Bullville, NY, 845-361-3471Zeiser Wilbert Vault, Elmira, NY, 607-733-0568ASSOCIATE MEMBERSA-Lok Products, Inc., Tullytown, PA, 800-822-2565

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A L Blades & Sons, Inc., Hornell, NY, 607-324-3636C & S Engineers, Inc., Syracuse, NY, 518-455-2000CDM, Syracuse, NY, 315-434-3200Clough Harbour & Assoc. LLP, Albany, NY, 518-453-3961Collins Engineering Inc., Albany, NY, 518-436-0392Delta Engineers PC, Binghamton, NY, 607-231-6612Dewberry, New York, NY, 212-685-0900Didonato Associates PE,PC, Buffalo, NY, 716-656-1900Edwards & Kelcey Engrs. Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-584-9733Erdman Anthony, Rochester, NY, 585-240-2666Eriksson Technologies, Inc, Tampa, FL, 813-989-3317 Fisher Associates PE, LS, PC, Rochester, NY, 585-334-1310FRA/T Y Lin International, Henrietta, NY, 585-359-0280Greenman-Pedersen, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 716-633-4844Hunt Engr Arch Surveyors PC, Horseheads, NY, 607-358-1000Keystone Associates, LLC, Binghamton, NY, 607-722-1100LaBella Associates, PC, Rochester, NY, 585-454-6110Lamont Engineers, PC, Cobleskill, NY, 518-234-4028Maser Consulting, West Nyack, NY, 845-727-1160McFarland-Johnson, Inc., Binghamton, NY, 607-723-9421O’Neill Consulting, Spring Lake, NJ, 732-974-0129Popli Consulting Engineers, Penfield, NY, 585-388-2060Ryan-Biggs Assoc., P.C., Troy, NY, 518-272-6266A H Sample, Inc., Ottsville, PA, 610-847-8945R Samsel Engineers, Henrietta, NY, 585-334-5549Shumaker Consulting Engineering & Land Surveying, PC, Binghamton, NY,

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There was no concrete topping required over theplank. A thin self leveling material, such as Level Set3000 or Gypcrete, was applied to make it ready for fin-ished surface materials. The solid concrete balcony unitswere attached with a system developed by Oldcastle, inwhich plates with reinforcing bars attached were cast intothe balcony pieces, and grouted into the planks, enablingthe welded strap connection between them to be accom-plished quickly (even in the bad weather), and minimiz-ing crane setting time. This interesting project incorpo-rated five structural materials – masonry in the stair tow-

ers, steel columns and beams, cold formed stud wallsand light gage steel framing for the roof trusses, wood forthe balcony railings and parts of the building façade tomatch the historical architecture in the area, and pre-cast/prestressed concrete hollow core planks.

Project credits: Glen Coben Architecture & Design,New York, NY; Christie Engineering, Chester, NJ; GBCCorporation, Patterson, NY (GC); Oldcastle Building Sys-tems, Selkirk, NY (plank supplier and erector). Thanks toDavid Wan, P.E., LEED AP, Oldcastle Chief Engineer forthese photos and facts.

For their new 63,550 sf one story Price Chopper Storein Shrewsbury, MA, owner The Golub Corporation knewthat precast insulated panels offered many advantages:savings on energy costs, simplified and shortened con-struction time, attractive finishes requiring little mainte-nance, and security. Installation of the 158 precast com-ponents took only 10 days, with the exception of two pan-els to be erected at a later date to allow for temporary con-struction access.

A modular panel design in conjunction with standardroof joint locations was used to minimize precast erectiontime. The typical panel was 10’ wide by 27’-101/2” tall, withthe tallest being 34’-41/2”. The panel cross section was 4”– 2” – 4”, plus 1/2” +/- of architectural features. In addition

to the 136 wall panels, the project included 6 precast span-drels, 10 concrete columns, and 6 flat slabs. The standardconcrete mix design was 6,500 psi, using SCC to improveworkability and enhance surface finishes. Panel exteriorsvaried, some with a split block appearance, some with a“popcorn” finish, and other areas plain. The exterior will befurther enhanced with a masonry paint.

Project credit — The Golub Corporation, Schenectady,NY, owner; wspartners, Dublin, OH, architects; Con-struction Management & Builders, Lynnfield, MA, con-struction manager; Wm. E. Dailey Precast, LLC,Shaftsbury, VT, precaster. Our thanks to Robin Outwaterand Adam Howe of Wm. E. Dailey Precast for the photosand facts for this article.

Price Chopper, Known for Value (continued from page 3)

Hollow Core Speeds Madison Beach Hotel Construction (continued from page 1)