APM Press Releases

APM Press Releases

For Immediate Release: January 20, 2011

For more information, contact:

Sheila Kamin at 248-200-3343 or sheilak@buildingofamerica.com

Building of America Awards Announces Northern Virginia Association of Realtors® Headquarters Chosen for Gold Medal Feature

"From hundreds of nominated projects, Northern Virginia Association of Realtors® Headquarters, has been selected as a Building of America Award project and will be a featured Gold Medal Winner on the home page at www.buildingofamerica.com. The Building of America Network showcases the most innovative, unique and challenging new projects - projects that are particularly noteworthy and/or give back to their respective communities. The website is an essential link, bringing owners together with consultants, financial resources, architectural firms, program and project managers and others from within the construction and design industry."

For Immediate Release: December 8, 2010

For more information, contact:

Julie Zulch at 248-200-3315 or jzulch@buildingofamerica.com or

Sheila Kamin at 248-200-3343 or sheilak@buildingofamerica.com

Building of America Network Honors Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

Farmington Hills, MI - From hundreds of submitted projects, only the best have been selected as Building of America award winners. The award honors the country's most innovative, unique and challenging projects - projects that are particularly noteworthy and/or that give back to their respective communities. The Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads project is now available for viewing online at http://www.buildingofamerica.com/news/articles/hc/1210/GoodwinHouse/index.html

The Building of America award winning projects represent the best in new construction and renovation in a wide variety of categories including commercial and retail, mixed use, multifamily residential, government, transportation/infrastructure, health care, education, religious, historical restoration and more. Submitted projects are reviewed by a selection committee that is looking for projects with unique design or construction elements; innovative solutions to challenges including financing, environmental, and zoning; efficient and cost effective methods of planning and execution; and/or have a significant economical impact on the region, among others.

The Building of America Network is an essential link, bringing owners together with the design and construction industry nationwide by profiling new construction and renovation projects in a case study format. Owners can read, in the words of other owners, architects and general contractors, about the newest facilities joining the landscape in their respective region. More importantly, the case studies provide a tool to help owners learn from one another's experiences. The website combines more than 50,000 links and millions of searches each year.

For Immediate Release: November 5, 2010

Media Contact: April M. Smith, asmith@apm1.com, 703.263.3100, ext. 118

DC Awards Honor Excellence in Historic Preservation

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The District of Columbia Office of Planning Historic Preservation Office presented the winners of the Eighth Annual Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation on Thursday, November 4th at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Dupont Circle. Several restoration and renovation awards were presented including one for the Eastern Market restoration project and the Individual Lifetime Achievement Award to author and DC cultural history pioneer Kathryn Schneider Smith. In total, 18 awards were presented to individuals, businesses, and local organizations for exemplary work and commitment to historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and public education. This year's honorees are:

Institutional Projects:

Washington National Cathedral: Underground parking facility for cars and buses seamlessly integrated into the site allowing the restoration of Olmstead's vision of a cathedral sitting in a park setting.

For Immediate Release: October 7, 2010

Media Contact: April M. Smith, asmith@apm1.com, 703.263.3100, ext. 118

Completion Of

Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

5-Year Redevelopment Project

Advanced Project Management, Inc.; the Strategic Program Managers for the Institutional, Educational, and Non Profit communities, is pleased to announce completion of the final phase of Goodwin House Incorporated's $109 million, 5-year redevelopment project of their Baileys Crossroad's location.

Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads (GHBC) is an existing Continuing Care Retirement Community with approximately 350 residents. GHBC implemented this project to expand their resident facility and to provide additional amenities as part of their repositioning plan. The project consists of the construction of two underground parking garages, a fifteen-story high-rise tower with 106 apartment units, a three-story Health and Wellness Center, and the renovation of 152,000 SF of the existing residential tower and common areas.

APM was charged with the Program and Construction Management, which called upon our 16 years of experience with logistical planning, technology integration, budget management, and strategic construction. The most challenging aspect of this project was that the existing facility is operational twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Due to the constrained site, every part of the construction process would affect the Owner's daily operations, as well as the residents' lives. When APM was selected as the PM/CM, we evaluated the preliminary concept construction schedule of 24 months, which planned all of the construction to occur simultaneously. APM developed a longer, but phased and sequenced, construction schedule. In reorganizing the construction approach, we minimized the disruption to facility operations and the residents' lives by limiting the number of relocations of operations and existing residents to the fullest extent possible. Both the Owner and the Contractor needed to be able to cohabitate onsite in harmony, and this phased construction approach achieved this objective. All three phases of the project completed on time and under budget.

"I am once again very grateful for the collective wisdom that led us to select APM."

- Kathy Anderson, President and CEO of Goodwin House Incorporated

For Immediate Release: October 1, 2010

Media Contact: April M. Smith, asmith@apm1.com, 703.263.3100, ext. 118

What’s New with Commercial and LEED Tenant Projects?

World Wildlife Fund, Inc, Washington, DC, 1st Floor North Tenant Renovations

LEED-CI Platinum goal in concert with LEED-EB building objective

Advanced Project Management, Inc. managed renovation and reconfiguration of World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) 1st floor restaurant space into 13,600 SF of supplementary office space. World Wildlife Fund’s mission is protecting the future of nature and is committed to promoting sustainable approaches of the use of renewable natural resources, and is dedicated to environmentally sensitive construction. This renovation is special as it represents a double paradigm shift for this conservation organization. WWF is reducing employee space standards by eliminating innumerable closed offices and minimizing their size when they are provided. Provisions are also being made for accommodations as an alternative to having full offices and work stations for those who are not often in the office, or for those who can telecommute. This will comprise of demountable partition systems that permit adapting the space as needed by means of demounting the walls and placing them in a new configuration. This will lower the life cycle costs through reuse of the entire space year after year, and raising sustainability by not having to demolish and discard walls for each renovation. In addition, this project will accommodate new energy efficiency systems that will limit power usage when a space is not active, for instance a conference room or an unoccupied work station.

World Wildlife Fund, Inc, Washington, DC, Extensive Green Roof

LEED-EB building objective

Advanced Project Management, Inc. was called on to develop the 3rd largest green roof in the Washington D.C. area as part of World Wildlife Fund’s LEED Platinum Program for their existing building. The project’s largest challenge was developing a cost effective Green Roof on the existing building. APM analyzed a number of options including Semi Intensive Green Roofs requiring roof reinforcement, rain water harvesting systems, supplemental solar power arrays with under-array plantings, and the planting of summer grasses that would maximize rain water collection and CO2 sequestration. Careful analysis of these objectives demonstrated that the value of a Semi Intensive Roof applied to other WWF programs could better impact nature and serve society if applied elsewhere and more modest goals were then set for the Green Roof on the existing building. The final solution called for a design/build approach of an Extensive Green Roof system with water retention mat and up to 7” of plant medium with a detailed planting plan using drought resistant plantings to enhance the character of the roof. This solution maximized not only the LEED points for the building’s USGBC LEED EB Platinum program, but maximized the mitigation of storm water run off and reduced the first flush impact on city storm sewers. In addition, deeper than required plant medium will induce greater CO2 exchange, thus enhancing carbon dioxide sequestering.

Northern Virginia Association of Realtors®, Fairfax, VA, Headquarters

LEED-C&S Gold Objective

Advanced Project Management, Inc. provided the Professional Project and Construction Management services for new headquarters for the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors® located in Fairfax, Virginia, which is comprised of a 23,550SF three-floor office building, an underground parking garage, and two green roof plazas that create a park-like setting. This building has an exemplary open space ratio that links the nature preservation area adjacent to the site with the green roofs and a central plaza. Northern Virginia Association of Realtors® set very high sustainable objectives for this project as they feel it is an example for their membership and a teaching tool to the public. NVAR is registered for LEED CS with a Gold rating objective.

Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA, Centennial Gym Renovations & Addition

LEED-NC Certified Objective

Advanced Project Management, Inc. recently completed this $29 Million addition and renovation project. This project can be broken down into three subprojects: sitework, new construction, and existing building renovations. The new construction infills the open space between the two existing buildings. On the lower level, locker rooms, team rooms, and other associated athletic support facilities will be constructed. The First Floor will primarily house a new gym, along with the Hall of Fame, which will employ high-end millwork and finishes to be the new display space. There will be a new weight/fitness room located on the Second Floor. The existing building renovations portion of the project involves renovating the existing Centennial Gym and Wrestling Cage, and includes a major HVAC upgrade.

For Immediate Release: October 20, 2009

Media Contact: April M. Smith, asmith@apm1.com, 703.263.3100, ext. 118

Advanced Project Management, Inc. www.advanced-project-management.com of Chantilly, VA is pleased to announce our awarding winning project for The Washington National Cathedral Underground Bus Depot, Parking Garage, and Intensive Green Roof is displayed on exhibit at the National Building Museum: House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage. The exhibit opened at the National Building Museum Saturday October 17th, 2009 and will remain on expo through July 11, 2010.

“House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage is the first major exhibition to explore the history of this familiar structure and open conversations about innovative designs and parking solutions for the future. House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage will reveal the many facets of this building type: a showcase for innovation; a platform for some of the 20th century’s best-known architects; and now, potentially, a valuable component of responsible and sustainable city planning. Visitors will learn how the parking facility evolved from an ornate, enclosed structure to the open deck and integrated forms we see today.”

The exhibition features a sectional model that is a replica of the intensive green roof system installed at The Washington National Cathedral along with photos, narrative, and other graphic representations of the Capital’s first underground bus depot and green roof spanning over the North Lawn of the Cathedral. The exhibition concludes with a look at the future of parking, featuring photographs, renderings, and models of “green garages” as well as new types of parking solutions.

PRESS RELEASE:

APM is one of the first to obtain the new:

Accredited Green Roof Professional Designation

Advanced Project Management, Inc. www.advanced-project-management.com of Chantilly, VA is pleased to announce that Michael S. Catlett, Principal and Stephen C. Karcha, Senior Project and Construction Manager, are among the first to become an Accredited Green Roof Professional (GRP).

These individuals have successfully completed a multi-disciplinary exam encompassing five areas of concentration: pre-design, design, contract management, quality assurance and support, and maintenance. The GRP accreditation verifies that the individual has attained the level of interdisciplinary knowledge of best practices associated with the successful design, installation, and maintenance of green roof systems.

“We are very pleased with the caliber of the new GRPs and the fact that they come from both the green arts side, i.e., the living components of a green roof, and the black arts side, i.e., the nonliving components”, said Jeffrey L. Bruce, Chair of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. “Industry experts from both the black and the green arts have worked hard over the past six years to develop training materials and a professional exam that covers best practices across the spectrum of professionals, in order to improve multi-disciplinary knowledge and practice in the field.”

“The GRP accreditation will help to protect the industry by emphasizing best practices, while providing additional marketing and business development support to those who attain the new designation,” he added.

APM successfully delivered perhaps the largest Intensive Green Roof in the Washington Metropolitan area, which is now the North Lawn at the Washington National Cathedral.

PRESS RELEASE: People on the Move

Timothy C. Reyman, LEED AP, joined Advanced Project Management, Inc. www.Advanced-Project-Management.com as Assistant Project and Commissioning Manager.

Tim is an 8 year professional with a formal education in Architecture and several years of construction management experience. Tim’s Masters in architecture brings depth of knowledge to APM, as does his experience in design and construction management of commercial and historic preservation projects. Tim is also a LEED Accredited Professional, a requirement for all Professional Managers at APM and furthers APM’s sustainable objectives for all projects.

PRESS RELEASE:

APM Endorses Sustainable Design and Management Practices as Basic Service

Advanced Project Management, Inc. www.advanced-project-management.com is pleased to announce that they will bring to the forefront of their services and management plans for projects and programs, adherence to sustainable design and management practices as a standardized approach. While not all projects seek LEED Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, all can make use of many sustainable design and management practices at little or no additional cost.

This sustainable practices initiative is bolstered by the fact that 100% of APM's Professional Project and Construction Management personnel and principals are LEED Accredited Professionals. Each project is assigned a LEED Accredited Professional who is charged with the implementation of an environmentally responsible approach for the design, development, and delivery of the project. Sustainable concepts are engrained within each program developed and the Owner will be given the latitude to apply sustainable concepts to the fullest extent they wish to pursue, but no-cost sustainable practices that make a difference to the environment and the quality of the project will be applied as part of APM's delivery approach for each project.

APM currently has three LEED projects pending registration and one LEED Certified project to its credit.

PRESS RELEASE: Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

Advanced Project Management, Inc. is pleased to announce that we have been selected as the Program Managers and CM's for the redevelopment of Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads, a member property of Goodwin House Incorporated.

APM is charged with the overall Program Management of redeveloping the existing property, which will include the addition of a new 15-story Residential Tower, a new Health and Wellness Center, two underground parking garages, as well as renovations and upgrades in the existing 12-story Residential Tower.

This project calls on APM's logistical planning and strategic construction background and enhances our capabilities in the area of heal and medical, athletic facilities, multi-story residential, and major renovations in occupied conditions, as well as the rollout of a major technology and security program under our management.

PRESS RELEASE: People on the Move

Advanced Project Management, Inc. recently announced the addition of Leah Palmer, LEED AP as an Assistant Project Manager and Commissioning Manager.

PRESS RELEASE: Wesley Theological Seminary

Advanced Project Management, Inc. has been selected as the Professional Project and Construction Manager by Wesley Theological Seminary for the Campus Study, MEP Study, and Master Plan Schematic Design Phase of their campus improvements. The Master Plan for future phases will include a combination of renovation and new construction, while maintaining the scale and feel of the existing campus. The new campus plan is most notable for its increased on-campus housing and parking, improved faculty offices, new technology library, and expanded chapel. Advanced Project Management is pleased to join the team of The SmithGroup and Wesley Theological Seminary on this project.

PRESS RELEASE: Georgetown Day School

Advanced Project Management, Inc. has been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM by Georgetown Day School for the expansion of their facilities. This project consists of the demolition of the existing athletic fields, and the construction of a below-ground 2-story gymnasium and below-ground 1-story parking garage in its place, with the fields to be replaced at the end of construction. Also to be constructed is an above-ground lobby and classroom building addition. This addition's three levels will provide new classroom and laboratory space, along with additional office space for the faculty, and a new place for students to gather. Advanced Project Management is pleased to join the team of Bowie Gridley Architects and Georgetown Day School on this project.

PRESS RELEASE: Episcopal High School - Science Building

Advanced Project Management, Inc. has been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM by Episcopal High School for their new science building on their campus in Alexandria , VA. This new facility provides an addition of eight laboratory classrooms to the school, along with a large lecture classroom, library, faculty area, and greenhouse. Episcopal High School is also striving to be environmentally responsible by building this new science facility to LEED Certified standards. Advanced Project Management is pleased to join the team of Graham Gund Architects and Episcopal High School on this project.

PRESS RELEASE: Washington National Cathedral

Advanced Project Management, Inc. has been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM by the Washington National Cathedral for the upgrade of their parking facilities. For this project, a four-story underground parking garage is to be constructed adjacent to the cathedral, connected via the Northwest cloister, which itself will undergo some renovation at the connection point. In addition to that, the current surface bus lane will be demolished to make way for an underground bus lane to be built, which will have the capacity to accommodate eighteen buses.

APM is pleased to join the team of Smithgroup and the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation on this project.

PRESS RELEASE: 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Advanced Project Management, Inc. has been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM by REIT Management and Research for their redevelopment at 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC. This project consists of the Renovation of the Facade and Core and the Build-out of the fully leased 350,000 SF building. APM is please to join the team of Leo A. Daly and James G. Davis Construction Corporation.

PRESS RELEASE: Capitol College II - McGowan Center

Advanced Project Management, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM for the McGowan Academic Center at Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland. The project will consist of 42,000 GSF of new construction and related site work. The function of the building will be administrative and technical classrooms and lecture halls.

The entire project team from Phase I (La Puente Library), including APM, Geier Brown Renfrow Architects, and Forrester Construction, have been brought back by Capitol College to complete Phase II.

This is APM's second consecutive project with Capitol College.

PRESS RELEASE: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Advanced Project Management, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM of the Expansion and Renovation of the National Headquarters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Washington, D.C. This project consists of four turn of the century row house nestled in a quasi-residential neighborhood consisting of vintage row houses containing private homes, businesses, and Embassies. The project will consist of demolition of an existing building while retaining the front facade and developing a new basement and three elevated floors behind this facade. It also includes the addition of a fourth floor on top of another structure and recreating the historic character of the existing facade.

PRESS RELEASE: 1925 Isaac Newton Square & Southgate

Advanced Project Management, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have been awarded their fourth and fifth consecutive projects with Peter Lawrence of Virginia as the Professional Project Manager and CM for the construction of 1925 Isaac Newton Square, Reston, Virginia and the Southgate Development, Chantilly, Virginia.

The 1925 Isaac Newton Square project will consist of the demolition of an existing building and the construction of a 75,000 SF office building with above ground parking. APM procured the design team of Herring Trowbridge Architects, Shapiro-O’Brien & Associates, Haynes Whaley Associates, and VIKA. Construction is scheduled to begin spring 2000.

The Southgate Development project will consist of the construction of approximately 120,120 SF of new tilt-wall warehouse construction. The project also includes on and off site infrastructure work for on grade parking, utilities, and storm sewer facilities. The design team consists of Architecture, Inc. and Christopher Consultants, Inc. The procurement of the General Contractor is currently under way with construction scheduled to begin late winter 2000.

PRESS RELEASE: Trinity University Campus Center

Advanced Project Management, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have been selected as the Professional Project Manager and CM of the new Campus Center for Trinity University, Washington, D.C. This project consists of the redevelopment of Alumnae Hall and the development and construction of a Campus Center, which will include athletic facilities and a student center. Based on the current program design, Trinity University is planning for 114,000 SF of renovations and new construction. APM will lead the procurement of the design team this fall and the General Contractor procurement is scheduled for summer 2000.