Prologis Gratigny Industrial Park 15

Summarize the project's program, features, and achievements: The building is a speculative, Class-A, rear-load warehouse facility in southern Florida constructed using the tilt-up method. The front elevation uses a combination of panel recesses, formliner, stacked and offset panels to create attractive entries to the facility at the two center and two front corners. The architect detailed recesses as deep as 2 3/4 inches to break up the mass of the panels at these locations and create a pattern that highlights the egress doors and windows. Additionally, the panels in the two corners are “stacked” one in front of the other to increase an offset dimension and add more distinct shadow lines to the wall elevation. The two center main entry extends the “stacked” concept in that the panels are offset five feet face to face. Most of the panels along the front elevation have future openings to facilitate tenants’ needs for glazing or egress doors. The perimeter walls of the building are solid (that is, non-insulated) tilt-up concrete wall panels. In addition to the exterior walls mentioned above, the utility room appendage and all exterior stair and ramp walls were constructed with tilt-up concrete wall panels. The tilt-up construction method was used to eliminate as much as the cast-in-place concrete walls as possible. A unique feature to this building is the canopies and large “eyebrows” in the stacked panels. The canopies are cast-in-place concrete construction completed after the erection of the panels. In order to facilitate the structural connection with the panels, a splice box with integral reinforcement was used in lieu of traditional form savers. The “eyebrows” are a tilt up panel 4’ thick by 5’ wide that span vertically and horizontally at each entrance. Panels were hollowed inside to reduce the weight to allow for proper lifting.