Satterfield Pontikes Construction Group, LLC

Introduction

Great local reputation for finishing projects

An industry leader 

-Short video showing the five projects that they are currently working on. With music by Irving Mayfield. :) 

Believes libraries are important community centers. 

Largest firm in the city with 65 employees. 

25 year tradition of working with libraries. 

Lead a client and community design base and to create libraries that enhance the community intellectually as well as physically. As well as create bold designs. 

Flexibility-to reuse buildings in the future because we don't know what the role of libraries is going to be in the future. 

Visibility-Operationally efficient libraries.

Identity-of the library with in the community. 

Comfort-bringing natural light into the building. Views to the local community. 

Five Designs for Five Libraries

First library

Parking for 40 cars

Secondary Entrance

Main entrance will spill out into the community inviting them in

Basic structure of building will be able to adapt to changing library functions

Children's area 

Terrace

All five branches have reinforced concrete, including the roof

Design to last decades and through hurricanes

Large expanses of glass to let in natural light, but keep out heat and humidity

NOE Regional Branch

Two large oak trees

ground floor entrance lets out on to a courtyard, with tall bamboo plants

Meeting rooms are on the second level

Made parking requirment

Norman Mayer District Library

all program areas will fit

all but 3 parking spots will fit

Good security 

Children and young adults on first floor where they can be monitored 

Adult section on the second floor

Colorful, sustainable brick material for the outside. 

Lots of natural light

Robert E. Smith Community Library

Entrance spills out on to a terrace

Lots of natural light

Library raised to floors about the required 14 parking spaces

Composite cement panels decorate the outside

Nora Narva Neighborhood library

smallest of the library

One level-according to historical requirements

room for all 16 parking spots

lots of natural light

children and teen area is in view of service desk

sustainable building material 

Team Overview:

S & P Team Managers

Consulting services of NW Florida Inc. 

JBA Consulting Engineers

Professional service industries 

Newcorp inc. 

Come together to make sure they cover all of the city's requirements. 

S & P structure:

Design

Construction

Administration and support

Personal commitments from team members. 

Buildings are designed to be economical and easily maintainable

Buildings are designed with reinforced concrete to last for decades and through storms

Project will finish on time and with in budget

Plans for New Orleans to become a Nationally recognized library for services 

Children's library and computer areas will be monitored by the security desk

Staff controls library through security and materials 

Theft detection devices at the entrances of the library

Schedule for project is 95% done

 

The Gibbs...>BREAKDOWN!

Bertucci - Senior Project Manager for Gibbs


Important aspects of their construction methods.

In-house safety managers.
Site Security.
Quality Control - similar to what the navy does, what they have done with the national guard. multi-phasic to ensure proper code and programatic design.

Start securing an early-start package. As soon as they can get notice to procede, will start demo and fill work in algiers. It will be treated as five projects, with five teams under the project executive.

Weekly design and construction coordination meetings. Will not necessarily have all the subcontractors on all projects. Will not try to overload the subcontractors to keep everyone moving at the same pace.

Daily safety meetings, tons of in-house inspections, even inviting OSHA inspectors to the site.

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Why Gibbs?

-Everyone working on the project for gibbs is already in-house, no extra hires just for this project.
-Large subcontract following, so they get favorable pricing.
-Reagan's minority utilization award.

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Algiers Regional - Gibbs

WELLNESS BRANCH

Outdoor courtyard, can enter the meeting rooms through the side vistas. The circulation desk is incredibly central with a view of almost the whole floorplan. A special delivery area will enter through the back of house since the library will be so large. Children's librarian station.

Upper floor - Meeting rooms in center, records desk at top of stairs with access to the technology area. Reference libarian will double as IT person. Meeting rooms would be as transparent as possible.

because of the door locations, going outside with people would be easy, such as children's stuff outdoors.

Gibbs - New Orleans East

View from the oak trees looking into the courtyard space.

lots of parking. In the corner will be the enterprise zone/after-hours.

TECHNOLOGY BRANCH - lots of the tech space has been designed down on the main level, a community tech and computing space.

Circ is backed up by the work room, private staff access, break room, etc.

Second floor stair brings up to the center of the library near the reference desk.

A much more interesting design, especially the interior (based on the CAD images) Upstairs overlooks the park.

The building is out to the sidewalk in order to promote foot traffic through its civic structure.

Norman Mayer - Gibbs

Corner entrance, to bring in people off of gentilly with high visibility. A sort of triangle-space.

Will be a challenge because of the non-standard space. Flexible stacks.

First floor, also has after-hours, seperated by a clear, clean security/control point. Circ desk is in the center, behind is a workroom area.

Second floor - central stair that lands next to the reference desk.

The book space is more like a long rectangle within the floorplan. Perhaps a MUSIC BRANCH - Listening stations, high technology within a neutral space at the end of the stacks.

I'm not a huge fan of their larger flat side surfaces, personally - lots of slides of CAD image models. meh.

Lakeview - Robert Smith? (Gibbs)

Entrance off of Harrison as well so there is an entrance off of Canal and Harrison

Utilize an alleyway as a vehicular access to the site. Stairs take you to a courtyard terrace so you can enter the library from the street, or from elevators, but they enter at the same point. The enterprise zone will open at harrison, with the terrace and meeting areas near and seperate for after-hours spaces.

3rd floor - but second for the library will have very clean site-lines so all the books and stairs will be clearly visible.

Nora Navra site

The building sites on the western edge of the land so that the eastern edge will be on a public park space. for farmers market, film nights, in order to have a public space that interacts cleanly with the community.

The east views back to the community. Parking would be underneath as well.

A grand stair leads up into an after-hours facility. The circulation desk is right inside of the non-afterhours space so it can be closed appropriately. The orientation based on the CAD model sort of looks like a very upscale Barnes and Noble, at least along the window.

Design is variantly build for fema elevation or for minimal, with no underneath parking.

Gibbs Construction

recently completed a 30 million dollar build for the National Guard.

President says they have an aggressive, but realistic schedule based around a partnering with the City and project leadership. Gibbs - Gould Evans Lee Ledbetter.

Lee Ledbetter worked on NOCCA

Worked on this project for 11 weeks and one day - weekly meetings. Every team member has visited every site, along with reps from zoning department, entergy, etc. to uncover info not included in the program information - zoning properties, high voltage power lines not in the documents, etc.

Using best practices in urban planning to maximize appropriate sidewalk experience in the mostly residential neighborhoods where the libraries will be located. Public library work since LEe ledbetter's inception over 30 years ago.

Image of Broadmoor LLC's Algiers Regional

Broadmoor LLC's project delivery

We are now discussing construction environment

Site conditions - Utility lines, Existing street

Demolition
BUildings - site paving and parking
disconnection/capping of utilities

Site logistical PLan - plan will include:
Access Routes - Lay down areas
OFfice locations - fire and police departments
Some sites will not have lay down areas, as the cocnstruction site will not have room.

Equipment Requirements:

Size & Availability.

Broadmoor LLC will have careful construction sequencing, based on previous large-scale projects, such as their recent Navy 3-8....

They have carefully prepared a subcontracting network in order to efficiently manage the five-site project.

Disadvantaged Business Enterprises
35% participation goal:
Existing DBE relationships
Industry day/job fair events
Bid packages tailored for DBEs

With their design solutions, they will be able to go back to the city planning process for efficacy.

Why the Broadmoor Team?

- Proven Design build track record
-library expertise
-design excellence
-commitment to budget & Schedule
-has designed a large amount of waterproof membranes within their plans/roofing, etc.
-has been involved in similar programs in new orleans for the past 15 years.
-about both rebuilding libraries, and partnering with the community to make it happen.
-Value, strength of the team, attention to detail, the resources that broadmoor has at its disposal locally.

Raised the buildings to maximize the city's insurance without violating the programatic needs.

Algiers Regional

Create Civic Presence
Re-Orient BUilding Entry
Holiday Drive Street Edge.

turned the building around so that it does NOT face general de Gaulle.

two stories, corner entry - keeping that theme. Upstairs will be the adult and young adult sections. mobile and variant stack positions for contemporary library needs. Sustainable lighting solutions

Broadmoor LLC

Broadmoor is a one story building, will have a good connection to the street. A ramp set up on the curb. A "jewel" Added to the plan - an outdoor, southward facinig greeting garden. All of the collection spaces will open into it. The reading spaces indoors will look into the square.

Robert E Smith Branch:

COnstrained Site
INtersection of COmmercial REsidential
High Visibility Site.

They felt that the right response was to not add a parking area next to the property, in order to keep a more congruous neighborhood space. Entry space will be in the corner. Interior will have a common theme of corner entry. An open, generously proportioned staircase will be near high-volume public access, high-capacity computing.

Upstairs, like all of the second floors, will be built so bookstacks can go ANYWHERE in plan - a key programming feature. Designed for perpetuity. Staff will be right at the top of the second story stairs so there are immediately visible. No dead corners. Functions that dont need windows in the core of the upstairs space.

Schedule of Meeting

9-12 request for technical proposals committee review
12-1230 lunch for committtee and facilitators
1230-4 oral presentations
12-130 Broadmoor, LLC
145-245 Gibbs Construction
300-400 Satterfield Pontikes Construction Group, LLC
4-430 RFTP Scorin & Scores announced

What is problematic is that while the committee review is presently open to the public, the actual proposals are not -there are not copies for us, etc. Also, due to the nature of the review, the format is such so that you can't really hear anyone, as they are speaking in the auditorium with a very conversational demeanor.

I spoke to the COO, and she suggested that it may be in our best interests to return for the actual presentations, which will take place at 1230, and check that out - as it will provide us with everything that we are searching for...much like the safe Road to Mt. Doom...
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The Set Up

I set this up tonight to...."live-blog" the design meeting about the Li-berries. we'll see if this annoying use of _tech is worthwhile and actually useful in the mornin.
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