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The Hancock Hotel

Hancock Hotel

Hancock Hotel

Owner:
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 located 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 as well as business travelers from around the world. 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. The building is supported by a drilled pier deep foundation system and lateral loads are resisted by the concrete and masonry shaft walls around the stair and elevator shafts. A second level pedestrian bridge connects the hotel interior with an adjacent parking garage for convenient guest access.

The Joseph Hotel Columbus

Joseph Hotel Columbus

The Joseph Hotel - Le Meridian

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
Elness Swenson
Graham Architects, Inc.

Awards:
2014 NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) - Mixed Use / Multi-Family Development Category

Construction Cost:
$16 million

Project Size:
128,000 SF

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 10 story, post tensioned concrete structure supported with an auger cast pile foundation system.  Lateral loads are resisted by the concrete shaft walls around the stair and elevator shafts.  The building completely fills the site, resulting in construction immediately adjacent to existing buildings on the north and south sides and High Street to the west and an alley to the east.  The partial basement was strategically located so that underpinning of the existing buildings on the north and south sides would not be required, reducing cost.  It was also located so that excavation shoring would not be required on the High Street side, again reducing construction cost.

Polaris Hilton Hotel & Conference Center

Hilton - Polaris

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. This project was recognized by the Tilt-Up Concrete Association for 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 and 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 that is supported by conventional structural steel at the second floor. The conference center structure is also conventional structural steel.