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CLIENT
Madison Marquette Realty Service
LOCATION
Asbury Park, New Jersey
STRUCTURE
The Sunset Avenue Pavilion is a two-story, steel framed building, situated along the Boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It has a concrete and masonry façade and the unique feature of a second story, circular pop-up which is completely enclosed with windows. The building, which formerely housed a hotel spa, is currently unoccupied and serves primarily as a storage facility.
CHALLENGE
Our team was retained in the fall of 2007 to conduct a conditions assessment of the building, with emphasis on the potential re-use of the first and second floors as restaurant and mercantile tenant spaces.
SCOPE OF SERVICE
- Conduct initial conditions assessment of the building, including the exterior envelope, façade, structural and mechanical systems, roof, and drainage.
- Provide recommendations for structural improvements and repairs for the building as a whole with tenant occupancy as the intended future use.
- Provide construction documents for increasing the live load capacity of the second floor to 100 psf.
SOLUTION
- We took full measurements and produced baseline drawings of the building, which did not exist prior to our survey.
- We created an assessment report for the building describing the existing conditions of all its various components.
- We identified the deficiencies related to each element, recommended repairs, and assigned a degree of priority to each issue.
- Specifically, we recommended that the second floor framing be reinforced to increase the live load capacity to code compliant standards for assembly. In addition, we provided structural details for all recommended repairs.
- We emphasized the importance of the implementation of mechanical systems, specifically a sprinkler system, which is required for any large assembly use.
- We investigated the optimal potential location of an elevator.
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