The $50 million renovation project will be accomplished with true Integrated Project Delivery methods, with full support of the Owner through a multi-party Integrated Form of Agreement. This will be the most significant IPD project to date on the East Coast.

• Basement - consists of offices, mechanical rooms and storage areas.
• First Floor - consists of a large “Rehearsal Hall Room”, office, storage and multipurpose room.
• Second Floor - consists of mechanical areas.

The Rehearsal Hall will include a large rehearsal room sized to accommodate 250 musicians, band offices, and support spaces. The exterior materials palette will be primarily brick and glass with a copper-clad standing-seam roof.  The rehearsal room will have an extensive glass window area facing the Arts Commons, which will flood the rehearsal space with natural light and allow visibility from the exterior.

DPR's Self-Perform Group is completing the concrete work.

The space includes a fluoroscopy suite, x-ray rooms and multiple exam and clinical support spaces. Included in the project was the structural upgrade of the floor system to accept the x-ray imaging equipment and the fluoroscopy equipment. This renovation took place in an existing operational building and required coordination with staff and building functions.

The project features decorative metal paneling housing the interactive screen array and video walls in the main space. Conference rooms with operable partition dividers allow for flexible use of meeting space and fabric-wrapped acoustic wall panels, located throughout the facility, mitigate sound in public spaces and meeting rooms. Strategically placed BASWAphon acoustical plaster ceilings also aid in the control of sound transmittance. The briefing room is equipped with a Cisco Telepresence system, comprised of three display screens. The visual and interactive details were crucial in creating the environment envisioned by Kaiser Permanente. Examples of these elements include graphic image wall coverings displaying Kaiser branding and information about technology displays. Various technology demonstration areas are located in the facility, each containing display niches which demonstrate how doctors utilize technology for the betterment of the patients. Graphic image shades along the front windows are used not only to reduce light transmittance indoors but also to provide a visual display for passersby on the street, grabbing their attention and inviting them in to learn more about Kaiser Permanente.

Along with a commitment to green, the project team utilized some of the latest technology to improve the design and construction process. DPR utilized BIM for several purposes on this project including the coordination of the large amount of self-performed concrete work, totaling some 32,000-sq.-ft., as well as helped the team coordinate the extensive under slab plumbing work. DPR estimates a 375% return on investment, based on the savings realized through increased productivity and avoided rework when divided by the total BIM implementation costs.

DPR's services for this project have been retained under a Guaranteed Maximum Price contract for both Preconstruction and Construction services. During preconstruction DPR worked closely with the Architect, Developer, and Owner to develop a cost model that incorporated all the required systems outlined in the Schematic documents prepared by the team. From this cost model and through scheduled Quality Control work sessions DPR was able to assemble a GMP on 100% Design Development documents.

The project is a total of 140,000 sq. ft. The medical center has surface parking incorporating every available square foot of usable landspace to meet the parking requirements for a medical facility of this type. The five-story facility utilizes a steel frame on shallow concrete spread footings. Exterior wall skin components include architectural precast, standard size brick, curtainwall, storefront and mechanically fastened membrane roofing.

On the interior Inova dedicated the two lower floors to ambulatory surgery care, while the three upper floors are for a medical office building fit-up. Detailed coordination with the Owner purchased medical equipment was critical to the successful outcome of the interior buildout.

The DPR Team exceeded expectations with a "no excuses" approach to meeting the project schedule. Major schedule "rocks in the road" were overcome including adding a second floor expansion, site permit delays, gas service delays and one of the worst years for weather on record.

These issues were creatively incorporated into the original project schedule and DPR delivered the project on time on the original contract completion date - "no excuses"!

TENANT IMPROVEMENT
The DPR office in Falls Church was challenged to construct a 50,000-sq.-ft. multiple-owner expansion in the Inova HealthPlex.

The fully operational facility necessitated vast expansion of the physician offices and procedure rooms. Fifteen individual doctors, specializing in podiatry, cardiology, obstetrics and orthopedics, each required specialized custom-spacing, individual design plans and various finishes all within a tight schedule timeline.

DPR worked with each doctor individually, meeting permit needs, inspection requirements and providing physicians with multiple walk-thrus and plan reviews.

Early on, it was determined that the building's existing mechanical system would require extensive review to meet LEED-CI prerequisites and the unusually low floor-to-floor heights of eight feet, four inches would complicate the installation of ductwork, lighting, electrical and fire suppression systems. As a result, the team focused primarily on Materials and Resources and Indoor Environmental Quality rating system credits to meet certification goals. In the end, the USGBC project achieved Silver LEED certification for commercial interiors and was completed on time.

The Department of Forensic Science provides technical assistance and training, evaluates and analyzes evidence, interprets results, and provides expert testimony related to the full spectrum of physical evidence recovered from crime scenes. Their wing includes a firearms laboratory with firing range and laboratories for vehicle inspection, biology/DNA, prints, toxicology and controlled substances.

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner conducts a medical legal death investigation, serving as the principal case investigator in their locality for deaths falling within their jurisdiction and statutory authority. The wing includes a main autopsy room, body storage coolers/freezers, and BSL-3 operating room.

The project included a major two-phase renovation and addition to house a motion picture, broadcasting and recorded sound facility in four parts, as follows:

• The complete interior demolition and renovation of the existing 135,000-sq.-ft., three-story building to store all media except nitrate;
• A Central Plant Building, consisting of a new building constructed at grade behind the Collections Building;
• A Conservation Building, which included construction of a 185,000-sq.-ft. building and comprised of public space, office, audio-visual and electronic labs, photographic wet labs and shipping/receiving facilities; and
• Nitrate Film Storage Vaults, which are in two connected buildings each with 60 individual four-hour rated film vaults, together with associated equipment building and equipment mezzanine, totaling about 47,000 sq. ft.

Construction began August 2003, with overall completion in the fall of 2006.