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VOLUME 3
ISSUE I
2006
In This Issue
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Excelling in
Aerospace Facilities
Relationship-Building:
Redefined
Blade Plant on the
Fast Track
table of
contents
1 | Excelling in Aerospace Facilities
STV specialists help aerospace firms get their plants off the
ground and running—fast.
STV Group
205 West Welsh Drive
Douglassville, PA 19518
610-385-8200
fax: 610-385-8500
STV Incorporated
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
212-777-4400
email: [email protected]
website: www.stvinc.com
6 | Relationship-Building: Redefined
The firm has built a close collaboration with AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals LP, providing the company with
planning, design, construction management and
project management services.
10 | Blade Plant on the Fast Track
STV is providing design and construction
management skills for the building of a wind
turbine blade plant in Pennsylvania.
Editorial Board
Dominick M. Servedio, P.E.
Michael S. Della Rocca, P.E.
Linda Rosenberg
Thomas J. Spearing, III
Managing Editors
Debra Trace
[email protected]
Jill Bonamusa
[email protected]
Editor
Barry A. Goodmann
Contributors
14 | HDD: A Green Approach
The firm offers clients horizontal directional
drilling (HDD) expertise for pipeline projects in
environmentally sensitive areas.
16 | Revitalizing Baltimore
Private developers are tapping STV’s planning and design
prowess as they seek to revamp parts of the city.
Jennifer Callahan
Graphic Design
Sammi Ho
Front cover photo:
© Jean Miele/CORBIS
Back cover photo:
© 2005 RVOIII Photography
17 | Gliding to Governors Island
The firm joined forces with architect Santiago Calatrava
to perform conceptual design of a tramway to link
Manhattan and Brooklyn to Governors Island.
BUILDING A TRACK RECORD IN
Photo courtesy of Boeing Company
AEROSPACE
FACILITIES
STV performed architectural and engineering design and construction
management services for the Boeing V-22 Focus Factory and office
conversion in Ridley Park, PA.
Since the Apollo moon rocket program began nearly
45 years ago, STV has been designing sophisticated
facilities to support the aerospace industry, providing
professional services for private and government
clients. We have been successfully working with such
well-known aerospace industry giants as Lockheed
Martin and Boeing for more than 25 years.
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Photo courtesy of Boeing Company
“The aerospace industry is notoriously fast-tracked,” noted William E. Keller,
vice president and national market leader for industrial projects within STV’s
Buildings and Facilities Division. “The large aerospace companies must demonstrate in their government proposals that they have appropriate facilities available
to provide the work they will be contracted to do. They bid on multibillion-dollar
programs where part of the contract award is based on the contractor’s ability to
start the program within a specified time after contract award. In addition, these
contracts are usually awarded to the lowest bidder, so they are always looking for
ways to do the work less expensively.” STV helps these companies stay in the fast
lane by designing research and development and production facilities within tight
time constraints and strict budgets.
According to a year-end review and forecast by the Aerospace Industries Association, the U.S. aerospace industry generated $170 billion in sales in 2005,
which represented a 9.2 percent increase from the previous year. The same report
projects that sales in the aerospace industry will grow 8.2 percent in 2006.
Today, many aerospace firms are spending their funds on established programs, rather than developing new ones. And, while the aerospace industry’s business has leveled, some firms are pursuing programs with other nations to win
satellite and defense contracts to maintain their workload.
Keller noted that specialized aircraft is the current industry focus within the
United States. STV recently provided complete architectural and engineering
design as well as construction management services for the Boeing Company’s
$32 million V-22 Focus Factory and office conversion in Ridley Park, PA, a fasttracked design-build project that spanned only 12 months from design through
construction and occupancy. The STV team converted an existing warehouse into
the 171,000-square-foot production and support facility for Boeing’s V-22 program and a new, two-story office and cafeteria, with ancillary space. The V-22
Osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter, but, once airborne, can convert to a
turboprop airplane. The Focus Factory has the capacity to accommodate full-rate
production of the V-22 and has increased production efficiency by 300 percent.
While many of STV’s contracts with aerospace companies are traditional designbid-build rather than design-build, the V-22 Focus Factory is an exception because of the need to fast-track.
Programming of the facility was accomplished by a joint venture between
Boeing production personnel and STV’s engineers and architects. Planning was
developed so individual production stations could be relocated, placed and made
operational, producing a cascade-type effect in the movement of production stations from the existing facility to the new building. This greatly minimized pro-
The V-22 Focus Factory cockpit assembly area is shown
above. The V-22 Osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter,
but it can convert to a turboprop plane once it’s airborne.
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Courtesy of Lockheed Martin, 1995.
Photo courtesy of Boeing Company
The V-22 Focus Factory has the capacity to accommodate full-rate
production of the V-22 Osprey and has increased production
efficiency by 300 percent.
The Earth Orbiting Satellite facility, designed by STV, is an
80,000-square-foot, high-bay Class 10,000 clean room
built for the manufacturing of satellites.
duction downtime, allowing the facility to begin partial operations in 10 months
and full production in 12.
Many of STV’s current projects for aerospace industry clients involve upgrading existing facilities and systems to meet new production requirements and
employee accommodations. In fact, a number of the modification projects that
STV is undertaking are facilities originally designed by the firm.
“Aerospace industry clients have huge campuses that contain different kinds
of facilities,” Keller said. “For example, the Boeing Ridley Park campus has over
2.5 million square feet, and Lockheed Martin’s Valley Forge campus houses over 2
million square feet of facilities.”
“Our original contact with the present Lockheed Martin Corporation actually
started with General Electric Aerospace in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, GE sold
their aerospace business to Martin Marietta, which later merged with Lockheed.
Our services for these projects never changed, other than our client’s name.”
At Lockheed Martin’s expansive Valley Forge, PA, campus, STV originally
designed their Building D, a 350,000-square-foot high-security data and office facility. This secure compartmentalized information facility (SCIF) included computer space shielded for radio-frequency and electromagnetic interference, as well
as a conference center, and full cafeteria. Since its construction in 1987, STV has
designed two SCIF additions to the building – one has been constructed and the
other is awaiting funding.
Elsewhere on the Valley Forge campus, STV designed the new Earth Orbiting
Satellite (EOS) facility, an 80,000-square-foot, high-bay Class 10,000 clean room
built for the manufacturing of satellites. This project was specifically designed for
the NASA’s EOS weather and atmospheric monitoring satellite, but the facility
will be utilized for other satellite construction in the future.
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©1997 Shane Photography
STV helps aerospace companies
stay in the fast lane by designing
research and development and
production facilities within tight time
constraints and strict budgets.
The firm designed and oversaw the construction of the Communications
and Power Center in Newtown, PA.
© 1986 Robert C. Scanlon
Lockheed Martin’s mission for the Communications and Power Center in
Newtown, PA, has evolved
to handle the production
of entire satellites to fulfill
Lockheed Martin contracts
with both the United States
and other nations. STV origThe Lockheed Martin Building D is a secure
inally designed and oversaw
compartmentalized information facility. The original
building and two additions were designed by STV.
the construction of the $70
million, 250,000-square-foot
facility for satellite antenna and power supply production, research and development. The facility consists of both Class 10,000 and 100,000 clean rooms and a
high-bay production area with numerous specialized testing systems including a
seismic slab for vibration tables, five anechoic chambers, vacuum chambers and
a large acoustical chamber. An existing office building renovated as part of the
project is now used as an administration area, cafeteria and data center. STV has
designed other projects of this nature at Lockheed Martin’s campuses at nine
other locations around the country.
“Most of the facilities and systems we have designed support our armed forces
and contribute to our national defense,” noted Randall J. Hallman, P.E., a chief
electrical engineer at STV. “These projects are used to build helicopters and aircraft,
advanced radar and satellite systems and in the development of many U.S. defense
systems. STV will continue to provide the aerospace industry with the high-quality
design services that have allowed us to continue our long-lasting relationships.”
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‘STV has been a trusted partner in providing engineering support
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Redefined
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services to AstraZeneca for nine years.’ — Kersey G. Vakharia, AstraZeneca
Photo: Courtesy of AstraZeneca
STV served as the owner’s representative for
AstraZeneca’s new U.S. corporate headquarters
campus in Wilmington, DE.
A
straZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, one of the world’s
leading pharmaceutical companies, spends each
working day discovering, developing and delivering innovative health care solutions, while meeting United States government standards to ensure public safety.
STV works with AstraZeneca to see that those benchmarks are met, either by assisting in the commissioning
of a sophisticated ventilation system to ensure a room’s
sterile operating condition or managing projects that improve the work environment for hundreds of employees.
STV’s staff has been instrumental in anticipating
the client’s design and construction needs, whether it is
through value engineering, creative solutions or experienced
field oversight. STV and AstraZeneca rely on each other’s
staff to ensure that all AstraZeneca facilities are designed
and constructed to meet the safety standards of a global
pharmaceutical company, while incorporating the latest
technical advances in equipment, materials or systems.
“STV has been a trusted partner in providing engineering
support services to AstraZeneca for nine years,” said Kersey
G. Vakharia, AstraZeneca’s senior director of corporate
engineering and real estate.
As a result, STV has staff members on-site at various
AstraZeneca facilities, where they manage projects through
direct and constant communication between the two companies. Often times, these STV staff members become closely integrated with an AstraZeneca department as employees
of both companies collaborate on an array of projects.
The first project that brought the companies together
was an environmental site assessment in 1997 in Chester
County, PA. At the time, the firm was known as Astra
Merck. STV performed site reconnaissance, in addition to
an environmental database and regulatory records review
for an available building and associated site.
Once that project was complete, STV provided design
and construction management services for a data center
that was built within the same facility. The partnership was
further strengthened when STV provided master planning,
design and construction management services for extensive
renovations to Astra Merck’s rapidly expanding corporate
offices in Chesterbrook and Frazer, PA. The project involved
more than 510,000 square feet of leased office space in five
buildings.
On a national level, STV provided program coordination for 14 regional business center expansions and/or relocations for what is now AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, in
widespread locations such as Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.
The largest project to date, AstraZeneca’s new U.S.
corporate headquarters campus in Wilmington, DE, was a
tremendous undertaking. STV served as the owner’s representative, and coordinated all phases of the planning, design
and construction, in addition to permitting, commissioning
and warranty management. The 750,000-square-foot corporate headquarters project was a testament to STV’s ability
to work with AstraZeneca to achieve their needs.
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As STV’s project director, Graham S. Stewart, P.E.,
was continuously associated with every phase of this
massive project, which took over four years to complete
and included four new office buildings, a 2,000-car
parking structure, two bridges, a childcare center and
regional storm water and sanitary sewer systems. STV
personnel worked side-by-side with AstraZeneca’s project staff, ensuring seamless oversight of the multitude
of activities. More recently, STV has provided professional design services for the replacement of power
and HVAC support equipment to increase the online
availability of AstraZeneca’s Operations Data Center
in Wilmington, DE.
Over the years, STV has provided AstraZeneca
with project management services in Massachusetts,
for both its manufacturing facility in Westborough
and its research site in Waltham. Neal DePasquale,
both the Wilmington and Newark facilities. Four STV
employees are working on-site at AstraZeneca’s Wilmington facility, within different departments. Erick D.
Biggers works in the operations and maintenance division, while Stephen M. Urick, PMP, Rose M. Hobbs and
Mitchell E. Guard, NICET II, work for the corporate engineering group. Biggers has been at the Wilmington site
since April 2005. He processes work orders and coordinates with outside contractors on various projects, while
liaising with AstraZeneca’s eight different workshops.
When it comes to maintaining STV/AstraZeneca relations, Biggers eagerly trained on SAP software to provide
assistance to AstraZeneca’s maintenance service personnel. The SAP system allows a user to pinpoint inefficiencies in such areas as supplier relationship management,
which helps organize workflow as well as keep everyone
at AstraZeneca aware of operations.
AstraZeneca’s new U.S. headquarters includes four new office buildings. The photos (from left to right) show the courtyard in front of the Chesapeake and
Delaware Buildings, the Chesapeake Building atrium, “Main Street” in the Alapocus Building and the Brandywine Building’s conference area atrium.
an STV employee for 27 years, was assigned by STV
to AstraZeneca’s corporate services group and since
then has consulted on various design and construction
projects at both locations, acting as a liaison between
contractors and consultants. DePasquale works closely
with AstraZeneca staff, and submits biweekly project
reports to both STV and AstraZeneca to make sure both
companies are aware of any setbacks or progress. His vast
experience within STV’s various disciplines serves him
well as he coordinates the various aspects of a project. “My
experience not only encompasses site-related projects but
also allows assignment flexibility for AstraZeneca, since
I have an architectural background,” said DePasquale.
“They can assign me a building project if their staff is
overtaxed, and I think both companies appreciate that.”
In Delaware, STV has provided similar services at
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For the past seven years of his 25-year career with
STV, Stephen M. Urick has enjoyed the challenges of
supporting AstraZeneca projects that focus on electrical
construction and information technology systems. To
satisfy the needs for critical systems and to minimize or
eliminate downtime to essential operations, close cooperation between Urick and AstraZeneca’s internal resources
has eased coordination of site safety and communication
with the user communities, while fulfilling documentation needs of the operations and maintenance group.
Rose M. Hobbs has been with STV for nine years,
and has spent the last five with AstraZeneca as a project
manager. Hobbs has worked on a variety of projects on
the Delaware campus, and is grateful to AstraZeneca for
enabling her to use an array of skills on the different tasks
she manages.
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“STV allows me to put my extensive construction
management and design skills at their disposal,” said
Hobbs. “Working at AstraZeneca provides an opportunity to get involved with different projects, and I pride
myself on supporting our client by meeting their high job
performance standards.”
Mitchell E. Guard has spent the last 11 years with
STV, with seven of them dedicated, in various capacities, to supervising approximately 35 projects on-site with
AstraZeneca. As a member of AstraZeneca’s engineering
team, Guard oversees a number of different projects ranging from major equipment replacements to building renovations. Guard’s extensive experience working for both
STV and AstraZeneca allows him to utilize his project
management skills to maintain the connection between
both companies.
STV project staff on-site (left to right) includes Erick D. Biggers, Stephen
M. Urick, PMP, James E. Robinson of AstraZeneca, Graham S. Stewart,
P.E., Rose M. Hobbs and Mitchell E. Guard, NICET II.
“Through its unique relationship with STV, AstraZeneca provides a wide range of projects from building infrastructure improvements to civil site improvements,” said Guard. “As a contractor to AstraZeneca,
we at STV bring the versatility of professional training
and experience and apply these skills to meet the needs
of each assignment.”
After nearly a decade of continuous association,
AstraZeneca and STV recognize each other’s commitment to the partnership through mutual trust. Striking
the delicate balance between respecting each other’s professional opinions while understanding that each partner
has a duty to its employees and customers, is the key to
maintaining this relationship.
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Blade Plant
Fast Track
ON THE
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In the age of global warming, renewable energy sources such
as wind, solar and geothermal energy are increasingly viewed
as alternatives to carbon-based fuels. Of these resources, the
market for wind energy is the fastest-growing. Wind energy
is a staple in Europe, which boasts 72 percent of the world’s
wind power production, and where countries such as Spain
and Germany use wind for as much as 11 percent of their
energy. In the United States, the market for wind energy is expected to experience tremendous growth in the coming years,
Photo: © Philip James Corwin/CORBIS
more than any other single nation.
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STV provided design and construction
management services for a new turbineblade plant in Ebensburg, PA.
Wind farms were first built in the U.S. as a response to the
operated production facilities. This experience allowed them
1970s energy crisis. One of the country’s earliest and largest
to get a firsthand look at the construction of an entire wind
wind farms, the Altamont Pass in Northern California, is an
generation system. Two engineers from a Spanish consulting
endless stretch of over 6,000 wind turbines, lining the low hills
firm that designs plants for Gamesa also traveled to STV’s
that separate the San Francisco Bay Area from the San Joaquin
Douglassville, PA, office to work there during the project.
Valley. Several other such vast, sprawling wind farms – actuIn addition, STV’s construction management team
ally a collection of privately owned farms – exist in California,
worked closely with the designers from the project’s concepand have made an imprint on our national consciousness.
tion. This enabled the construction managers to develop
Though many Americans may assoprocurement bid packages using preciate wind farms with desolate western
purchase specifications for long-lead
valleys, most of the growth in the indusitems such as steel, cranes and HVAC
In the United States, the
try is happening in other regions of the
equipment, so they would be on site as
market for wind energy
country. In 2005, STV won a contract
soon as construction came out of the
with the Spanish company Gamesa, the
ground.
is expected to experience
world’s second largest manufacturer of
“The Ebensburg plant brings the
tremendous growth in the
wind turbines, to provide design and
country one step closer to moving forconstruction management services for a
ward in the renewable energy market,”
coming years, more than
new turbine-blade manufacturing plant
said William E. Leech, assistant projany other single nation.
in Ebensburg, PA.
ect manager. “Wind costs only 3.5 to 4
The plant is Gamesa’s first manucents per kilowatt hour to generate, and
facturing facility in the United States.
with today’s soaring energy prices, it is
The new 184,000-square-foot facility will produce two types
important to advance its cause.”
of fiberglass rotor blades for wind turbine generators, with
Leech also noted that the project, along with its other
blades measuring 85 or 140 feet in length.
financial benefits, will also produce over 200 direct manuOn this design-build project, STV was challenged with
facturing jobs in the Ebensburg area.
getting the plant up and running in only 12 months. To ac“Gamesa’s commitment to Pennsylvania not only encomplish this feat, a team of engineers and construction manhances the economy here, but it positions the state as a leader
agers traveled to Spain where they surveyed several Gamesain the future of renewable energy.”
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It Can Happen in an Instant
On a quiet Sunday night last October, STV’s Kenneth J.
construction vehicles onto the site as they created crushed
Fetterolf, construction superintendent, was at the Gamesa
stone roadways. Exploding adhesive cans spread the fire,
construction site supervising an overnight concrete pour, when
and more than 100 firefighters from 10 fire companies bat-
he noticed something strange about the newly built roof.
tled the blaze throughout the night.
“I looked up and the roof deck was glowing red,”
“We were very lucky,” said Thomas M. Chervanick, STV’s
construction manager. “The rapid response by the fire depart-
Fetterolf said.
He immediately directed everyone to leave, and called
911. The volunteer Dauntless Fire Company of Ebensburg,
ments and contractors, combined with Ken’s quick thinking,
saved us from what could have been a catastrophe.”
PA, arrived within 15 minutes to lead the firefighting effort,
The fire was out by Monday morning. No one was in-
but muddy conditions prevented fire trucks from driving
jured, and although insulation on the roof burned, the build-
close enough to get water onto the fire on the roof of the
ing suffered no structural damage. Two days later, the roof
65-foot-tall structure.
crew had replaced the damaged roof deck. In approximately
On STV’s direction, contractor Horst Construction mobilized, and within 10 minutes the fire apparatus followed
nine days, all fire damage was corrected, and the concrete
and steel work was still ahead of schedule.
FACTS
about Wind Energy
 Wind turbines range in production capability from 700 to
5,000 kilowatts (5 megawatts).
 Wind farms can be located in shallow waters offshore, where
the wind blows harder. In fact, offshore wind farms are located off the coasts of Atlantic City, NJ, and Cape Cod, MA.
 At the end of 2004, U.S. wind energy capacity reached 6,740
megawatts. Wind power projects now under construction and
negotiation have the ability to add at least 5,000 megawatts
of wind capacity to the U.S. over the next five years.
 Wind power capacity in the U.S., as of January 2005, generates over 17 billion kilowatt-hours annually. That is as much
electricity as about 1.6 million average American households
(4.3 million people) use each year.
 You can have a conversation directly under a modern wind
turbine without any difficulty hearing or need to raise your
voice. The modern turbine is quieter than older models due to
improvements in blade design.
 California has the country’s highest number of wind farms.
 The Great Plains states, with their high wind volumes, have a
largely untapped potential for wind energy.
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Photo: © Philip James Corwin/CORBIS
Workers perform pipeline pullback near
the Philadelphia International Airport.
HDD: Offering a Green Approach to
Pipeline Construction
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Protecting our environment is a mandate that affects industries across many market areas,
particularly the oil and gas industry, where pipeline construction can be disruptive. STV
has developed expertise in the planning, design and permitting of horizontal directional
drilling (HDD), a construction method that minimizes impacts to sensitive environmental
Photos: © 2005 RVOIII Photography
and operational areas.
“Horizontal directional drilling is one of the fastest
5,200 feet. As with any construction project involving
growing trenchless construction methods today,” noted
wetlands, the environmental permitting process was
senior vice president Gerald Donnelly, P.E., who serves
complex, requiring a total of 32 federal, state and loas the STV Buildings and Facilities Division’s energy
cal permits. STV prepared and managed the permit
national market leader and participates in the Ameriapplications (which required narratives, graphics, field
can Society of Civil Engineers Pipeline-Division Risk
studies and preliminary design drawings), and develManagement Committee. “HDD requires only a small
oped a matrix system to track progress and approvals,
construction staging area, making it ideal for clients
saving time and expense.
with projects in environmentally sensitive areas such
Endangered red-bellied turtles, which breed on
as rivers and wetlands, giving the technique a signifithe Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, also afcant environmental advantage over open-cut trenching
fected project planning. STV secured the construction
methods.”
site with barriers to keep the turtles from entering, and
HDD is used to install pipelines and conduits
the surrounding areas were checked daily for nests by
up to 60 inches in diameter beneath obstacles such as
a team of biologists.
waterways, roads, railroads and contaminated areas.
Environmental issues of a different nature arose
The technique involves drilling a
in St. Louis, MO, when Buckeye
small pilot hole in a parabolic arc
Partners, L.P., needed to relocate
from one side of a crossing to the
one of its petroleum pipelines due
other. When the crossing is comto the proposed rehabilitation of
pleted, a “reamer” is pulled back
the Merchants Bridge crossing
to the entry point, enlarging the
the Mississippi River. STV proborehole. The reamer is then repovided engineering and constructisitioned back to the exit point, fason services to accomplish this task,
tened to the end of the new pipe,
which involved using HDD to reand pulled back through the hole
route the line underneath the MisPipe string assembly.
with the prefabricated pipeline. In
sissippi, at a location that required
aquatic environments, directioncrossing the St. Louis floodwall
ally drilled pipelines are placed at depths of 25 feet or
and levee. STV studied the floodwall and levee founmore, causing very little disruption to marine life, as
dations, which influenced the design and depth of the
well as eliminating future pipeline damage from shipdirectional drill alignment, including drill entry and
ping anchors or dredging operations.
exit points, tie-ins with existing pipelines and pull-back
Donnelly oversees the work of STV’s Houston,
areas for the crossing of the Mississippi River.
TX, office, which specializies in petroleum and natuHDD has become the preferred method for the
ral gas pipeline facilities. He recently managed two
construction of new pipeline crossings, not only underprojects that called for using the HDD technique unneath waterways and wetlands, but in other environderneath the Delaware and Mississippi rivers.
ments highly sensitive to disruptions, such as major
For the Delaware River Crossing, the firm prohighways and airfields. “And the fact that regulatory
vided environmental, engineering and construction
agencies, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
services for the installation of a new steel, heavy-wall
state environmental departments, have officially recog12-inch-diameter refined petroleum pipeline. The tonized HDD as a method that minimizes environmental
tal length of the directional drill was approximately
impacts, only ensures its future,” noted Donnelly.
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© WRT
Revitalizing Baltimore
STV is providing services for numerous development projects in Baltimore, such as the UMB BioPark (rendering, left) and the
Claremont Freedom Village (site plan, right).
B
altimore’s affordability and proximity to Washington, DC, has attracted the attention of private
developers to the area, bringing about a major renaissance in the city. With a 35-plus year history
in the city, STV is playing an integral role in this new revitalization.
“We are currently providing services to over three
dozen private developers who are transforming the city,”
noted Anthony J. Corteal Jr., STV senior vice president
and head of the firm’s land development group. “Many
of these high-profile redevelopment projects will have an
enduring effect on the city, transforming blighted areas
into productive, vibrant mixed-use neighborhoods.”
STV’s long-term presence in Baltimore brings with it
an intimate understanding of the varied communities of
the city. This familiarity helps newcomers such as Forest
City-New East Baltimore Partnership, a joint venture (JV)
developing a new biotech park, its first project in Baltimore.
Located near Johns Hopkins University, the park will hold
research buildings, parking structures, residences, student
housing, and public open spaces. It will provide space for
Baltimore’s burgeoning research institutions, and jobs for
the neighborhood and the region. STV is working with the
JV team on a 34-acre section of park, the first phase of the
80-acre project. The firm is assisting the team in implementing their master plan for this project while providing
them with insight into Baltimore City’s planning process,
helping to ascertain site constraints, analyze existing utilities and establish design guidelines.
In another underutilized section of Baltimore, Duke
Realty Corporation is developing a new business park on
a former General Motors manufacturing site. This is also
Duke’s first project in Baltimore. STV is developing the
master plan for Duke for the 184-acre site, which will
include a 2.8 million square foot warehouse, distribution
center and office space.
Located next to the Port of Baltimore, 22 new buildings, dedicated to industrial and port office use, will be
constructed. STV is providing road and infrastructure site
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improvements and establishing the business park design
guidelines. Architectural and engineering design services
for the buildings will also be provided by STV as the project enters the next phase. The project is expected to create
thousands of new jobs over the next decade.
“We’re excited to be entering the Baltimore market
and adding to the area’s already vibrant economy through
business development and job growth,” said Denny
Oklak, Duke’s chairman and chief executive officer.
“With access to both the Port of Baltimore and Interstate
95, the GM site represents an ideal location for port and
intermodal-related distribution centers.”
Affordable housing is another key factor to Baltimore’s growing success story. In northeast Baltimore,
two housing complexes, Broadway Homes and Claremont Freedom Village, are being redeveloped. Site development services are being provided by STV to Pennrose
Properties, LLC, for the 62-acre site. Formerly comprised
of public housing low-rise apartments and an 8-story senior apartment building, the site is being redeveloped as
a mixed-tenancy, mixed-income community of townhouses, semi-detached homes, and will include a new
apartment building for seniors and the disabled, as well
as a community center. The proposed plans preserve and
reuse portions of the existing infrastructure, while creating a more cohesive, attractive and pedestrian-friendly
community for returning and new residents. This is a site
that STV knows well — it was originally designed by the
firm in the 1960s.
“After three decades in this city, we are closely attuned to
the various neighborhoods’ needs and concerns,” stated Corteal. “We are excited to be a part of the revitalization efforts
that are taking place throughout Baltimore.”
Rendering by Santiago Calatrava
STV Performs Conceptual Design
For Governors Island Tramway
I
Imagine hopping on an aerial gondola from Lower Manhattan or downtown Brooklyn and gliding over the majestic New York Harbor on your way to a redeveloped
Governors Island. STV’s expertise has helped bring this
idea closer to reality.
In a pro bono effort, STV joined forces with internationally recognized architect Santiago Calatrava to
provide conceptual design services for an aesthetic tramway that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn to the 172acre island, a former Coast Guard base. Leitner Poma of
America also offered assistance.
This transport initiative, unveiled on February 15,
2006, could be part of a rehabilitation program for the
island’s infrastructure and historic facilities, overseen by
the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC). GIPEC is seeking to turn the island into a
major business, tourist and recreational destination.
“Governors Island is a truly unique site that requires
the highest standards of development, producing nothing less than the site’s nearly limitless possibilities,” said
Daniel L. Doctoroff, who chairs GIPEC and serves as New
York City’s deputy mayor for economic development and
rebuilding.
An STV team, led by Daniel J. Baer, AICP and vice
president, has provided planning and conceptual design
expertise for enhancing the island’s internal and external
transportation systems. “The gondola would not only assist in supplementing ferry service, but it would also provide an icon for the future redevelopment of the island,”
said Baer.
Working with Calatrava’s bold architectural concepts,
STV project staff performed planning, geotechnical and
structural engineering services for the tramway structures
and stations. The tramway system would supplement existing and future ferry service that connects the island to
downtown Manhattan, and likely to Brooklyn in the future.
The tramway, envisioned as a combination of slender
inclined steel towers about 500 feet tall, would support
a graceful series of suspension cables that carry the gondola cables and support system across the upper portion
of New York Harbor. The gondolas would hold up to
12 people and be fully ADA compliant. The system is
expected to transport about 4,800 passengers per hour
onto Governors Island.
The system’s towers would be supported by a series
of steel stay cables that form a striking pattern of parabolic curves. Proposed tower sites include an area just
west of the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan
and Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn.
The project would pose a number of technical challenges, including numerous existing structures at the tower sites and traffic maintenance issues. “We’re conceptualizing an extraordinary structure for an extraordinary
environment,” said Nicholas J. Altebrando, P.E., STV vice
president and national director of bridges.
Besides offering transportation to Governors Island,
the tramway system would serve as a tourist destination
in its own right. Featuring a circular shape, the gondola
cabs would offer riders a 360-degree view of the harbor. “The ride across the harbor would be an attraction in itself,” noted Altebrando. In addition, the towers
and stations would provide expansion opportunities for
a restaurant above the terminal that would offer scenic
harbor views.
Workers operate a directional drill rig for the Delaware River
Crossing project. See HDD story on page 14.
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