When a fire damaged Saint Louis University’s Macelwane Hall, McCarthy performed a comprehensive renovation to the 1960’s structure to create a state-of-the-art teaching and research environment. McCarthy’s VDC team recommended using laser scanning to capture the building’s envelope, structure, and existing MEPFP conditions which could be incorporated into the 3D coordination model to detect and […]
The Interdisciplinary Science Building is an eight-story, 160,690-square-foot design-build project for San Jose State University. Located in Silicon Valley, the project has tight site constraints and many interior lab components. Led by the McCarthy VDC Team, the complexed pre-planning and coordination of a laboratory space with all building systems required the precision of Building Information
The Washington University East End Transformation in St. Louis included eight parts – six buildings, one underground parking garage and landscape features. With more than 20 design team partners, the project required an unprecedented level of collaboration – especially with McCarthy’s plan to self-perform more than 43,000 cubic yards of concrete. By automating the concrete
Originally built in the 1950s, the Banner Boswell Medical Center project included expanding and upgrading the emergency department, a new lobby for the emergency department, a new five-story patient tower and updates to the central plant to ensure the new areas operated successfully. McCarthy identified significant potential coordination challenges and determined that team coordination could
The St. Louis Aquarium was a 120,000-square-foot renovation of Union Station in St. Louis, a National Historic Landmark that originally opened in 1894. Certain elements of an aquarium, especially large viewing windows with thousands of pounds of water pressure behind them, require very precise measurements with virtually no room for error during placement. Through the
Design Phase Integration engages project stakeholders early during the Design Phase to review design constructability and specifications before construction begins, eliminating delays and costly changes down the road.
BIM-to-FM / Life cycle Facility Data connects BIM deliverables to our end user’s facilities management database, allowing clients to leverage asset data that is critical for commissioning and building startup by incorporating data into the project design from the start.
3D Building Systems Coordination promotes the use of BIM to pre-coordinate the design intent with fabrication-level detail models from the building systems’ trade partners for a virtual replica of what will be installed physically – ensuring a high level of quality assurance and control prior to material arriving onsite.
Self-Perform Modeling for coordination and placement drawings helps ensure our self-perform work meets best-in-class cost, time and quality standards.