Rosa Parks Apartments is a 94-unit community-based affordable rental apartmentdevelopment consisting of 8 buildings scattered across 21 city lots. It wascritical that the buildings be economical to build and sustainable for long-termoperation and maintenance.

Precast Solution

The precastused for the project allowed the building system to be tight and energyefficient, largely due to the size of the panels, allowing for reduced exteriorjoints. The insulated wall panels featured cast-in brick on the street facadesand a painted brick pattern on the rear. The different colors of the brickpanels blend in well with the surrounding neighborhood at the differentlocations and contrast nicely with the bay windows.

Due to thelocation, one challenge for this project was maintaining security duringconstruction. Precast allowed the builders to place the panels, install thewindows and doors, and secure the building quickly with minimal weathersetbacks.

 

Awards 
2010 PCI Design AwardsBest Multi-family Building
Project Team

Architect

Landon Bone Baker Architects 

Engineer

GFGR Inc. 

Owner

Rosa Parks Limited Partnership 

Contractor

Humboldt Construction Co.

Precaster

Prestress Engineering Co. LLC

Key Project Attributes

  • The use of precast created sustainable long-term operation and maintenance
  • The efficiency of precast maintained security during construction
  • The different colors of the precast brick panels blends in with surrounding neighborhood

Project/Precast Scope

  • Area: 130,338 ft2 (gross area of eight buildings)
  • Project Cost: $22.6 million
  • Number of stories: 3–4
  • 739 panels