Located on property owned bythe non-profit Spruill Center forthe Arts, the new Residence Inn by

Marriott in Dunwoody, Ga., is designed to serve an eclecticmix of guests. Developed by Hotel Development Partners(HDP), the seven-story building will be 92,366 sq. ft. (8,581sq m) with 124 guest rooms when construction is complete.

The $16.7 million project consists of a cold form metalframing and hollow core plank structure, an EIFS and brickfaçade, upscaled site scape, an outdoor pool and extensive

site work and retaining walls. In addition to the hotel, the sitedevelopment includes substantial site earthwork, an under-ground storm water retention system and commercial out-parcels.

Atlanta-based Winter Construction is serving as the gen-eral contractor. According to Heather Tuskowski, projectexecutive, “The site is challenging. It requires extensivegrading and large retaining walls, remediation of unsuitablesoils and tight logistics.”

Construction began in October 2015 and should be com-

pleted by spring 2017. Equipment being used on the jobincludes dump trucks, an excavator, a crawler dozer, a vibra-tory compactor and a front loader. Currently crews areinstalling mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls andcontinuing with site grading.

“We are overseeing haul-off of unsuitable soils material,”Tuskowski said. “We are installing temporary shoring walls,and preparing to install a Geopier rammed aggregate pier forsoil reinforcement. Excavation is underway for undergroundstorm water detention. We are also working on site utilities,including sanitary sewer, storm and water.

“There’s an anticipated volume of 21,000 cubic yards ofunsuitable soil that will need to be hauled off throughout thesite. The sequencing of all site work activities is a challengeon the project, and logistical planning has been key to ensurethat safe access is available to all work areas while stillallowing all critical path work to proceed. MSE wall con-struction, permanent storm detention installation, site utilitywork, Geopier installation and retaining wall constructionmust be performed prior to starting on the vertical construc-tion of the hotel.”

The hotel’s structure is light-guage framing and hollowcore planks with concrete topping slabs. The building’s skinis exterior insulation and finishing system with brick accents.Fin windows and storefront walls are featured. The buildingis topped by a membrane roof.

Early on, crews experienced one setback on the project.“A geotechnical consultant discovered unforeseen addi-

tional unsuitable materials beneath an MSE retaining wall,and we needed to work through the most efficient and costeffective solution to this, which included exporting unsuita-bles and importing stone,” said Tuskowski.

Two commercial outparcels also play a role in the ongo-ing construction.

“We need to be sure that building pads are prepared fortenant construction, and that we are out of their way to thegreatest extent possible to ensure they have proper accessand laydown area for their work. It’s always a challenge toconstruct on a tight sight with multiple general contractorsworking on different projects, but the key to making it workis early and ongoing communication.”

Tuskowski also said that erosion control requires constantupkeep and monitoring.

“It’s as important as safety, and we need to ensure thatsediment is retained on our site and not running off to adja-cent properties. With site utilities, proper sequencing andflow are key to ensure that they are placed most efficientlyand safely.”

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Cooler temperatures also had to beaddressed.

“The weather is absolutely a factor,” saidTuskowski. “We started earthwork and sitework activities at the start of winter, and arefighting weather every day as the seasoncontinues. It makes for slow progress andlost work days. Even working extendedhours and Saturdays when weather permitsdoes little to overcome an El Nino seasonwe’re having this year.”

A high-end restaurant and 6,000 sq. ft.(557 sq m) retail building also will be locat-ed on the site. The Spruill Gallery and GiftShop occupies a historic farmhouse that willremain on the property, along with a newsculpture garden.

Created in 1975, the Spruill Center for theArts is a private organization promoting anappreciation of the visual arts through class-es, professional artist exhibition series andoutreach programs. Arts Center CEO BobKinsey said the terms of the land leasewould provide a long-term stream ofdependable income for the Arts Center.Kinsey also expects the restaurant and the

Spruill Residence Inn to bring many morevisitors to the gallery.

Richard Rauh & Associates Architects isserving as the design team for the project.Richard Rauh took note that the client isdeveloping a site in a community that has sethigh standards regarding the architecturalstyle of such a large building in a locationthey’re accustomed to seeing as a woodedhillside.

“Pitched roof imagery that suggested low-to-mid tier rate apartments was particularlyworrisome to the Dunwoody zoning boardand other interested parties, including theSpruill board,” said Rauh. “The architectur-al treatment chosen aligns the Marriott prod-uct being built here with the contemporarylook of that brand in some of its best knownupscale markets such as WashingtonDC/northern Virginia, the Mid-Atlanticregion and Boston.”

One of the main design challengesinvolved the property itself.

“The site slopes severely, and the waterruns from the top of the hill where the his-toric Spruill center sits, down toward thehotel and past it. Managing the storm water

and finding a way to retain it — under theparking lot down slope from the hotel, butstill on site — was an important develop-ment issue. Also, the site had been irrespon-sibly cleared and filled in the past and thereis substantial problematic organic fill pres-ent. Putting the puzzle pieces together forthe required parking, building footprintsincluding out parcels and retaining walls wasa challenge that left no room for any wastedspace.

“The hotel was reconfigured and rotatednumerous times as each schematic approachto the site was explored over many months.The final solution presents a front door anddrop off uphill toward the Spruill Center, buthas a second ‘front’ facing downhill wherethe majority of the hotel guests will parktheir cars. This ‘two-fronts’ configuration isunusual and not at all prototypical.”

According to architect Ann Fitzgerald,Spruill Center is the dominant communityfeature of the site at the top of the hill facingthe primary street, Ashford Dunwoody. Theproforma for the development required find-ing space for outparcels, and massing ade-quate outparcel buildings square footage in away that enhanced Spruill Center and did notdiminish it was important.

Slopes on Job Site Complicate Water Management

Located on property owned by the non-profit Spruill Center for the Arts, the new Residence Inn by Marriott in Dunwoody, Ga.,is designed to serve an eclectic mix of guests. Developed by Hotel Development Partners (HDP), the seven-story building willbe 92,366 sq. ft. (8,581 sq m) with 124 guest rooms when construction is complete.

Richard Rauh & Associates Architects rendering A rendering of the completedResidence Inn by Marriott inDunwoody, Ga.

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space and a yard to buffer it from the down-hill development of retail, parking and thehotel. The integrated site plan was evaluat-ed for its urban design support of Spruill asmuch, if not more, than the hotel structureitself was. The site slopes so much that thetall downhill hotel is minimally visiblebehind Spruill from the Center’s primaryfrontage on Ashford Dunwoody, and there-fore the hotel does not overpower Spruill,”said Fitzgerald.

“Unlike most other commercial buildingtypes, a hotel is not a shell building. It’s afully built-out business, right down to thetowel racks and iPad chargers in the wall,and it has to be ready for a first full day ofbusiness immediately on completion. Shellbuildings are lease space that can take yearsto fill up, while a hotel is fully completedfaster and is more complicated, saidFitzgerald.

“Also, the brands have strict standards foralmost every feature of the completed build-ing and physical business environmentwhich can make this building type quite dif-ficult for inexperienced developers and con-tractors. Hotels in this tier, however, are

invariably team efforts, and there are usuallyexperienced participants on these teams whoare there every day during the project to keepthings from going off the rails.”

“Upper tier restaurants and hospitalityhave a lot in common in their space plan-ning, marketing and construction technolo-gy, although restaurants are generally simpleone-story buildings. The importance of thelatest, up-to-date interior design is also asimilarity. As with hotels, a big factor in des-tination restaurants is the visual entertain-ment component of the customer experi-ence. Both hotel and restaurant guests andcustomers want to feel that they have beensome place special, some place they canremember, and the more successful projectsdeliver on that. The best commercial designknows its audience and knows how to speakto that audience.”

Rauh said environmental protection andsustainability also played a role in the designprocess.

“Preservation of tree canopy, storm waterdetention from impermeable surfaces andwater quality of run off, water-savingplumbing fixtures, LED lighting, minimiza-tion of building footprints, thermally brokenwindow technology, low-e glass, thermally

efficient window-to-wall ratios, redundantdoor entry vestibules and many other con-siderations are all routine practices in hotelconstruction.”

Rauh said hotel projects have a large teamof coordinated professional consultantsworking together, each with its own expert-ise and experience, and ideally each with aclear understanding of what they can do tosupport the other parties on the team.Coordination on the owner side of design forgeneral construction and the general con-struction itself must be skillfully married tointerior design, ordering, purchasing, storingand installing the interior package at the righttime and also designing, ordering purchasingand installing food service equipment and allother items of furniture, fixtures and equip-ment.

Certain items are designed, purchased andprovided by the owner but installed by thegeneral contractor. It is a very complicatedand ideally, perfectly timed dance of manyplayers.

“Hotel architecture for us is a continuumthat spans decades and is constantly evolv-ing,” Rauh said. “The brands themselves arenever static, but are always innovating,

improving and updating their products andtheir attitude toward their customers. Thefirst decade of the 21st century has seenmany novel and adventurous ideas abouthospitality emerge, get tried and get furtherdeveloped.”

Rauh said the property will feel like aretreat from the high intensity of thePerimeter Mall environment on a quiet siteprotected by mature trees, but it will haveeasy access to all the activities that the pre-mier office/retail hub of Atlanta has to offer.

He said, “New hotel construction invari-ably occurs in emerging, healthy, economi-cally vibrant areas of cities which means thatwe, as architects, get to be a part of that, tofeel that pulse. Since our office designshotels for our clients in dozens of states inthe U.S., we get to see how many Americancities are growing, and we get to see what theAmerican economy values in real time.”

Winter Construction also is building theHampton Inn and Suites a block away onAshford Dunwoody, at the Sterling Pointedevelopment.

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