TRC completes the new home for Rice Fergus Miller Architecture!
Bremerton, WA (May 2011) Tim Ryan Construction, Inc. (TRC) is pleased to announce the completion of the new home for Rice Fergus Miller Architecture. The project is located at 275 Fifth Street in Bremerton provides over 22,700 square feet of professional office space, 9,300 square feet of below grade parking, as well as 3,200 square feet of lease space.
TRC worked very closely with Rice Fergus Miller to meet the challenges of taking the former Sears Allstate Auto Center, a 1948 building that had been abandoned for 24 years, and convert it to the new offices and studio. The project is conceived as a laboratory for innovative design and experimentation, combining sustainable energy and water use features with the recycling of an abandoned and forgotten downtown building shell. The project received LEED® Platinum certification. Once awarded, it will be the most efficient in the Puget Sound area. TRC is a member of the US Green Building Council and is pleased to have been part of this project and look forward to many more LEED® projects in the future.
“Incorporating old into new is a challenge within itself, but we were able to track every dollar of construction to bring to light the sustainability of this modern creation”, said Adam Vega, TRC’s Project Manager. Vega continues, “much of the building material was purchased locally, had a high amount of recycled content, and was carefully selected to meet or exceed all GBCI requirements for low VOC products. Furthermore, all construction waste was monitored to achieve better than 97% landfill diversion. The building shell and interior structures were of 75% reused materials. All in all, the LEED Platinum dimension brought about a complexity that made this project unique, exciting and a triumph to complete”.
Tim Ryan Construction President, Dan Ryan stated that “the Rice Fergus Miller’s design team had a clear vision of what the potential of this old building was and it was our pleasure to work with then in realizing that vision. Having the opportunity to work collaboratively with the client and design team really made it enjoyable to come to work every day. Our employees put their hearts & soles into this project and were honored by the building Owner’s when asked to literally put their name on the project by signing a beam in the design studio”.
“Tim Ryan Construction was perfect for us – responsive, forward thinking, and concerned about value. The crew performed on the job as if it were their own. The pride they took in carrying out some of the more unique pieces was obvious, and it made the project better. This was no cookie-cutter project. Renovating a 60 year old shell that had been abandoned for 24 years into what might be the most unique LEED® Platinum Project in our region demanded a careful, crafted approach. Ryan’s team did a great job”! said Steve Rice of Rice Fergus Miller Architecture & Planning.
