Friday / May 08, 2015 / 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Inset Balcony Detailing & Constructability: Balancing Added Value Versus Risks
Cannon Design, 225 North Michigan, Suite 1100, Chicago
Balconies are a desired feature for residential projects. They provide multisensory connections to the environment that floor to ceiling glass cannot. From the client perspective units with direct connect to the outside command higher rents or sale prices. An inset balcony provides privacy that a projected slab balcony does not. Inset balconies increase the level of risk to the project as occupied spaces are on two or three sides of the balcony.
The Quality Support Team at Power Construction will be sharing their experiences with the construction of inset balconies and the challenges that they present.
Speakers:
Steve Black is a professional constructor with 25 years experience in the commercial and industrial construction industries. A LEED BD&C accredited professional, he has spent the majority of his career traveling around the Upper Midwest and East Coast building high performing buildings in the healthcare and data center markets with McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. For the last four years, he has served as Power Construction’s other QSM. His focus is on enclosure and he also shares his twenty years of field experience in mechanical and electrical systems with the project teams to ensure that the building performs as designed.
Rob Falconer is a licensed Illinois architect with 20 years experience in the design industry and 18 years in construction. Rob has spent most of his career detailing and reviewing the building envelope as a technical architect for SOM, Murphy/Jahn, Krueck and Sexton and VOA. He worked for Walsh Construction and the last 13 years with Power Construction as Quality Support Manager. As QSM he reviews the design documents with attention to issues of constructability, compatibility and sequence of work. Rob works with the project architects and Power project team to identify potential detail concerns and resolve these issues early in the process.
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