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| GRTC Transit Facility in Richmond, VA, Named ‘Best of the Best’ |
McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Engineering News-Record and other publications, recently honored the GRTC Transit System Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility in Richmond, VA, as the Best of the Best in the Industrial Category of its third annual Best of the Best Awards.
GRTC partnered with Gannett¬Fleming to design and build the $37 million bus operations and maintenance complex, which is also the first public building in Richmond to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Silver Level Certification. The state-of-the-art facility serves a fleet of approximately 188 buses, paratransit vehicles, and vans.
The complex sits on a 12-acre site and incorporates outdoor bus storage; a three-story, 26,600-square-foot Administration Building for all GRTC Transit System operations; and an ¬adjacent two-story, 100,600-square-foot Maintenance Building with fueling lanes, automatic bus washers, maintenance bays for bus inspections, trouble work, light and heavy maintenance, and a body shop complete with a downdraft paint booth to accommodate articulated buses.
GRTC Transit System used its former facilities in Cary Street in Richmond for more than a century, but the old building could no longer provide the optimal infrastructure, configuration, building systems, and operational equipment required for efficient daily operations.
McGraw-Hill Construction’s national competition recognizes design and construction excellence based on regional winners of McGraw-Hill Construction’s 10 regional publications’ Best of 2010 Awards. Beginning with 255 regional winners, an independent jury of design and construction professionals selects 64 national finalists and 21 winners in categories ranging from green building to transportation.
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