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The Brooklyn Heights Hotel was built in 1928 as the Leverich Towers Hotel and gained fame as the pre-game home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. After subsequent dormitory-style housing, the 310,000-square-foot building is now home to Brooklyn's first luxury seniors community, thanks to a $70 million renovation project. The building contains 275 multi-floor apartments, all of which use the hotel’s original mahogany frame windows and a series of convenient facilities.
Although there is no original plan and specifications, the design and construction of the project is to preserve the original interior design and layout as much as possible. This included the recovery of the hotel's original two-story ballroom space by reopening a 2,109-square-foot hole in the concrete slab on the first floor, which was sealed in the 1970s to create a mezzanine area.
A cantilevered concrete "T platform" attachment, flush with the floor, allows workers to work on the floor without complex basement scaffolding, which hinders and delays work on the floor. After connecting the support beams to the existing pillars of the floor, the workers installed a metal platform on the new structural support elements and covered them with reinforced concrete. With the completion of the fashion show, the concrete slabs from the 1970s were removed, restoring the space to its original layout.
In the basement, the team installed a 100-foot-long, 20-foot-wide transformer vault to power nearby areas. The structural elements of the huge unit extend through the second underground space to 60 newly installed spiral micropiles.
In addition to solving regular construction operations, the project’s safety plan also includes a monthly trade day plan (Best Projects considers this plan to be innovative). Inspectors conduct a full-day audit of each subcontractor’s operation to ensure compliance with all Security requirements. To ensure the safe restart of the project after the COVID-19 construction shutdown, the team emphasized continuous communication and accountability from the top down.
Although the working hours exceeded 300,000 hours, the zero accidents on the construction site left a deep impression on the judges. In the initial reopening phase, inspectors from the New York City Department of Construction repeatedly praised the project site as one of the most well-prepared places to implement changes and improvements.
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