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Hospitality & Residential

The Hancock Hotel

Location:
Findlay, Ohio

Architect:
Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc. (ESG)

Construction Cost:
$14 million

Project Size:
 98,282 SF

The Hancock Hotel is a 99-room boutique hotel on the Marathon Petroleum Company Campus. The hotel is located on the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Street in downtown Findlay, Ohio. It is intended to be a destination hotel welcoming local guests and business travelers worldwide. Amenities in the hotel include a restaurant, conference spaces, and meeting space with rooftop access.

The hotel is a 4-story, cold-formed metal framed structure atop a 1-story post-tensioned concrete podium. A drilled deep-pier foundation system supports the building, and the concrete and masonry shaft walls around the stair and elevator shafts resist lateral loads. For convenient guest access, a second-level pedestrian bridge connects the hotel interior with an adjacent parking garage.

Hancock Hotel

The Joseph Hotel Columbus

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
Elness Swenson
Graham Architects, Inc.

Construction Cost:
$16 million

Project Size:
 128,000 SF

Awards:
2014 NAIOP, Mixed-Use / Multi-Family
Development Category

The Joseph Hotel is a 135-room boutique hotel located in the Short North district of Columbus. The hotel is located a few blocks north of the Columbus Convention Center. It services the convention center and the needs of the Short North district. Amenities in the hotel include a restaurant, bar, and conference space.

The hotel is a ten-story, post-tensioned concrete structure supported with an auger cast pile foundation system. The concrete shaft walls around the stair and elevator shafts resist lateral loads. The building fills the site, resulting in construction immediately adjacent to existing buildings on the north and south sides, High Street to the west, and an alley to the east. The partial basement was strategically located so that underpinning the existing buildings on the north and south sides would not be required, reducing cost. It was also located so excavation shoring would not be needed on the High Street side, reducing construction costs.

Joseph Hotel Columbus
Exterior photo of The Joseph Hotel in Columbus, Ohio.

Polaris Hilton Hotel & Conference Center

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
Pahl Architecture

Construction Cost:
$30 million

Project Size:
 225,000 SF

The Polaris Hilton Hotel and Conference facility is a 253-room, nine-story hotel with a 40,000-square-foot conference center. The project was on a tight construction schedule which required innovative design and construction methods.

Rather than using conventional cast-in-place concrete for the stair and elevator shafts, tilt-up concrete was used. The use of this system for the stairwell and elevator shafts enabled the concrete work to be completed before the other trades (structural steel and prefabricated walls and floors) started on the project, which eliminated the safety issue of workers below the formwork and fighting for crane boom space. In addition to time savings, the cost of constructing the walls using Tilt-Up was less than cast-in-place. The Tilt-Up Concrete Association recognized this project as one of the Tallest Tilt-Up Panels. The coveted panel, which nabbed the number five spot on the list, is part of the stairwell shaft, measures 85 feet in height, and weighs almost 54 tons.

The entire structure is founded on auger cast piles. The hotel structure is eight stories of light gage metal framing supported by conventional structural steel on the second floor. The conference center structure is also conventional structural steel.

Hilton - Polaris