Master Projects

Senior Housing

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Traditions Of Hanover

Hanover Township, Northampton County, PA

Barry Isett & Associates (BIA) provided the site design; permitting, landscape review and construction stake out for this senior adult community, which provides residents with studio, one, or two bedroom apartments. Amenities include a library, game room, fireplace lounge, patio and gazebo, theater and private dining room. The grand opening of the facility, pictured above, was held in July, 2005.

Traditions Of Hershey

South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, PA

BIA was the structural engineer in the design of a 123,000 square-foot, three-story senior living facility that features 120 apartments. Construction consisted of pre-engineered wood roof trusses, engineered wood floor joists/trusses with wood bearing/shear walls supported on conventional shallow foundations. The twelve-million dollar project was completed in 2007.

Westminster Senior Housing at Parksburg

Parkesburg, Chester County, PA

In the design of a four-story, 84,200 square-foot senior housing project with 72 apartment units, BIA provided design of the structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for the entire building. The Archtiect for the project was Architectural Concepts. The building included an exercise therapy room, community room, computer room, laundry rooms, lounge areas, corridors, entrance lobby, and offices. The project owner is the Housing Development Corporation (HDC). MEP design was in accordance with International Building Code, HDC guidelines, Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) requirements, and Green Building Design.

Community Centers

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Community centers provide gathering places and activities that enrich the lives of area residents. Barry Isett & Associates has been privileged to provide an array of engineering services in the design of centers of various sizes and scopes. Representative projects are listed here.

Arrowhead Lake Community Center

Pocono Lake, Monroe County, PA

Arrowhead Lake is a gated community of year-round homes just minutes from both the Big Boulder and Jack Frost ski areas. In 2009, BIA was retained to provide structural and mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design for a new 12,400-square foot community center that features a great room, banquet facilities, a commercial kitchen, a game room and administrative offices. BIA provided site visits during construction.

Lake Naomi Club

Pocono Pines, Monroe County, PA

Lake Naomi Club serves the residents and guests to two resort communities, Lake Naomi and Timber Trails. BIA was the structural and mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering consultant in the design of a new 48,000-square-foot community center and indoor sports complex. Amenities in the 8.5 million-dollar project include an indoor pool, indoor tennis, a fitness center, a game room, and activity rooms to appeal to all family members. The lobby is pictured to the left.

Hanover Township Community Center

Hanover Township, PA

BIA provided the structural engineering design for the 27,000-square-foot community center which is open to township residents seven days a week. The offices of the township’s year-round recreation staff are housed are as are a 2,200-square-foot meeting room, a full-size gymnasium, a fitness room, classrooms, game room and an aerobic studio Photos of the building are included below.

Outpatient Oncology Center at Mercy Suburban Hospital

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East Norriton, PA

SERVICES

Civil engineering
Survey

Ground is expected to break this spring on a new 12,000 square-foot state-of-the-art outpatient oncology center at Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton, PA. Barry Isett & Associates (BIA) is the civil engineering consultant, working directly for the hospital. BIA also conducted topographic surveys to facilitate the project. Approvals were on a fast-track schedule; BIA was awarded the project in October, 2010; land development plans were ready for the March Board of Supervisors meeting to receive final approval.

Designed by Cross Castner Architects of Wayne, PA, the eight-million-dollar addition will feature eight chemotherapy suites, an image-guided linear accelerator, a high-dose radiation suite, multi-disciplinary clinics, treatment rooms, a family resource center and a conference center. A healing garden is also planned. Principal Charles Cross, AIA is the project architect. The team worked in close association with Bob Ochs, project manager, with the CID Group, which is providing construction management services to the hospital.

This is the second civil project designed by BIA in association with Cross Castner Architects. The first, designed to achieve LEED Silver accreditation under guidelines established by the US. Green Building Councils’ Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design program, was a 15-million dollar two-story addition to the hospital.

Grand Eastonian Suites

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Easton, PA

SERVICES

Civil engineering
Structural engineering
HVAC/Mechanical engineering
Electrical engineering
Plumbing engineering
Fire protection engineering
Construction services
Environmental services

Abandoned in 1989, the hotel remained closed for nearly a generation with significant damage on the interior and upper levels. In 2004, the building was acquired and renovated as a condominium with great care for the surviving historic features, while combining the upper levels’ 170 hotel rooms into 30 suites. This use has restored numerous elements of the original building as well as retaining its original elevator lobbies.

BIA provided all engineering services in the conversion of a historic hotel into 30 luxury condominium suites, with street level retail and service uses.

BIA Construction Services prepared a property condition assessment.

BIA Civil provided the landscaping, as well as parking lot design.

BIA Environmental identified and coordinated the removal of underground storage tanks.

BIA structural reconfigured interior space, and designed building repairs and modifications, which included elevator shaft modifications, repairs to cracking concrete floor slabs and terrazzo, and repair of deteriorated concrete floor joists.

The Inn at Charles Town

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Charlestown, West Virginia

Structural engineering
MEP engineering
Fire protection engineering

New Construction of 92,000 SF, 150-room, first-class facility. The Inn at Charles Town is located on the grounds of Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races - a vintage pre-World War II entertainment palace that offers fine dining, off track wagering, slots, multiple movie theaters, banquet facilities, and lounges. The Inn at Charles Town offers comfortable guestrooms and features 18 spacious suites, all with views of the thoroughbred racetrack.

DeSales University – Billera Hall Addition

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CENTER VALLEY, PA

SERVICES:

Structural Engineering

The Structural Engineering Department of BIA designed a 35,000-square foot addition to Billera Hall, the recreation center of DeSales University, Center Valley, PA. The six million dollar, two-floor addition included a new gymnasium, a fitness center, locker rooms, a kitchen, and a new entrance to the building. A balcony overlooks the action providing spectators with clear views of all sporting events. BIA has also provided civil engineering design for numerous campus projects.

Lower Merion School District: HARRITON HIGH SCHOOL

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Montgomery County, PA

Services

Boundary and topographic surveys
Site/civil design
Municipal and Agency Approvals and permitting

Harriton High School, a candidate for LEED silver certification, welcomed students in spring 2010, culminating six years of planning and construction. Barry Isett & Associates provided civil engineering and environmental services to KCBA Architects. As the 50+ acre campus already housed the existing school and associated parking and athletic facilities, a major project challenge was to design the new 328,000-square-foot-building on the tight site and to phase construction so that education and sports activities could continue seamlessly. To facilitate the process, the existing stadium was totally rebuilt and the stadium’s field was converted from grass to artificial turf to provide a more consistent and drainable playing surface capable of supporting heavier use. Another playfield was temporarily converted to parking with porous asphalt paving for enhanced stormwater management. The project features several innovative stormwater management strategies including bio-infiltration swales in the parking lot to collect and treat rainwater for recharge into the ground and an underground storage tank which takes water from the roof and recycles it in the building as gray water to flush toilets. The original school building was demolished after the new one was completed and occupied providing tennis courts, a lacrosse field, and parking in its place.

Almac Group: Pharmony – Almac North American Headquarters

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Souderton, Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, PA

SERVICES:

Surveys
Site design
Permitting
Environmental Studies
Traffic Studies and Engineering
Landscape Design
Stormwater Management
Structural Engineering

The new 240,000 SF building on a 40-acre campus, Pharmony – the Almac North American Headquarters, was designed by Francis Cauffman Architects, for The Almac Group.

The Almac Group, an international drug development organization headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, provides a comprehensive range of integrated drug development services to the pharmaceutical/biotech industry world.

Barry Isett & Associates provided a wide range of engineering services in the design of campus and the headquarters, which opened in 2010.

Frankford Hospital – Frankford Campus and Torresdale Campus

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ARIA HEALTH (Formerly of the Frankford Healthcare System)

4900 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19124

SERVICES

Civil engineering
Site design
Topographic and boundary survey services

BIA has provided a range of engineering services to the health system since 1991.

Projects include Frankford Campus involving topographic and boundary survey services, in conjunction with general site civil layout and grading design for a hospital expansion.

At the Torresdale Campus, BIA developed grading and erosion control measures for construction of a one-story building addition and redesigned the entrance for the Knights Road Campus. BIA also provided site design for a medical facility in the Mayfair section of the city.

Montgomery Hospital Medical Center (MHMC)

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Montgomery Healthcare System

1301 Powell Street, Norristown, PA 19401

SERVICES

Civil engineering
Site design
Topographic and boundary survey services
Structural engineering
MEP engineering

Montgomery Hospital Medical Center is situated on 4.1 acres in Norristown, PA. BIA has provided on-going services to assist in the expansion of the medical center and its services.

BIA has designed many mechanical and plumbing engineering design projects, as well as designing medical gas piping systems for sites throughout the hospital, including:

Heart catheterization laboratory
Renovation of the ambulance facility
Operating room suite
Emergency room suite
Pharmacy
Occupational/physical therapy suite
Nursery/delivery room suite
Dietary facilities
Administrative offices
Skilled nursing suite

Structural engineering services included:

Design of computer labs

Design of short stay center

Design of linear accelerator suite for the oncology department

Various structural inspections