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Building Name: Brickell Arch

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Location and Site: Miami Florida

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Building Occupant Name: Gaedeke Group

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Occupancy or Function Types (Type of Building): Mixed Use

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  • Office

  • Residences

  • Hotel

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Size (Total Square Feet): 750,000 ft2

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Number of Stories Above Grade and Total Levels: 36 Stories

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Primary Project Team:

 

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Dates of Construction (Start – Finish): December 2000 – June 2004

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Actual Cost Information: $226M Total Project Cost

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Project Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build

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Sustainability Features:

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No sustainability features were noted for this project.

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Historical Requirements of Building or Historical District Where Built:

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Brickell Arch was not within a historical district, therefore, there are no historical requirements for this building. 

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Architecture:

 

Brickell Arch is a 36-story glass tower, located on the coastline of Miami Florida. “The front façade of the tower, with its sloping face and graceful parabolic arch” which tops out at 30-stories, is certainly the most striking and prominent feature of Brickell Arch’s design. Brickell Arch has many other exciting features, including an 11-story atrium encompassed with glass walls and a skylight. Residential floors run around the atrium, as such, some residents get a view of the bay across the atrium. Another interesting feature of Brickell arch is its glass pedestrian bridge that connects the tower and adjacent parking garage, which crosses over a roadway. The bridge “has a steel-framed glass bottom pool that allows daylight to pass through and illuminate a drop-off area at the roadway below.” Other amenities include a full-service health club for residents and, atop the parking garage, there are two tennis courts accompanied by a pool

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Major National Model Code/s and Zoning:

 

  • South Florida Building Code, 1994; Supplement No. 3, 1997

  • ASCE 7-93, Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, by American Society of Civil Engineers

  • Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Structural Steel Buildings, 1 December 1993, (AISC-LRFD), by American Institute of Steel Construction

  • ANSI/AWS D1.1, 1996, Structural Welding Code - Steel

  • ACI 318-95, Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete, by American Concrete Institute

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Building Enclosure: Roofing (Materials listed from bottom to top)                                     Building Enclosure: Exterior Wall

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  • Sloped concrete slab                                                                                           Typically, the exterior wall system for Brickell Arch is a curtain wall (as shown in the

  • Waterproofing membrane                                                                                    figure on the bottom right). The system is composed of two panes of insulating glass with

  • Protection board                                                                                                 aluminum fins that extend beyond the exterior plane of the glass. Glass panes are slotted

  • Setting bed                                                                                                        into an aluminum assembly and supported by aluminum angle. The curtain wall is mounted

  • Precast pavers                                                                                                    to the concrete slab with cast-in embeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Structural:

Brickell Arch’s gravity system is primarily composed of post-tensioned slabs, both one-way and two-way, supported by tied concrete columns. Since Brickell Arch is a mixed use building, the system type and slab thicknesses differ based on floor program. The floors are programmed as office, hotel, and residential. For each system, the slab system and thickness are as follows: office (one-way slab t = 7.5”), hotel (flat plate t = 6.5”), and residential (flat plate t = 7”). Throughout the building, both slabs and beams have a concrete compressive strength of 6,000 psi. Concrete compressive strength for columns differs depending on the floor of the building in question: between Ground Floor and Floor 16 (8,000 psi), between Floor 16 and Floor 25 (6,000 psi), and above Floor 25 (4,000 psi). Brickell Arch resists lateral loads with the use of core walls and outrigger walls on Floor 23 and Floor 24, the outrigger walls are meant to engage the columns for additional lateral support. Similarly to the columns, the compressive strength of walls varies depending on the floor. Wall compressive strengths are as follows: Ground Floor and Floor 10 (8,000 psi), between Floor 10 and Floor 25 (6,000 psi), and above Floor 25 (4,000 psi). The aforementioned systems are all supported by the pile foundations, composed of 24” piles having a concrete compressive strength of 7,500 psi and the pile caps having a concrete compressive strength of 4,000 psi.

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Mechanical:

The majority of the mechanical equipment is for Brickell Arch is located on the 23rd and 24th floors. Chilled water is supplied, from the 23rd floor, to the residential floors where each apartment has its own cooling unit. Remaining spaces in the building are served by VAV units which are also located on the 23rd floor.

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Construction:

More information will be posted on the construction of Brickell Arch as it is received.

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Electrical:

More information will be posted on the electrical systems of Brickell Arch as it is received.

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Lighting:

More information will be posted on the lighting systems of Brickell Arch as it is received.

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Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Josiah Makay. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.

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