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Rodgers Builders, Inc., Charlotte, NC, received the Carolinas AGC Pinnacle Award for “Best Building Project” for its work as contractor on Presbyterian Hospital's Women's Center Expansion & Renovation in Charlotte, NC.

Additions included a 66,000-square-foot vertical expansion literally on top of an existing 8-story precast parking deck. Plus, the job involved a 20,000-square-foot addition at Level 7 above an existing 2-story Children's Hospital, with a 17,000-square-foot adjoining connector bridge at Level 7.

Renovations included a new 38-bed Neonatal ICU, 20 new GYN beds, and 31 new patient rooms.

Rodgers had to build six concrete shear box towers for lateral load bracing of high-rise institutional construction.

Judges called the site conditions unbelievably challenging.

The urban setting further complicated an already-daunting situation involving a very tightly confined site, an adjacent historic building, and ongoing hospital operations directly below the construction activity. A tower crane had to be positioned inside one of the new concrete shear towers in the parking deck due to severe lack of space at ground level.

Judges called it a head and shoulders project in every way, with unique aspects and challenges “through the roof.” An architect on the job said “Our office has rarely worked on a more complex project… this team has taken the word ‘teamwork' to a whole new level.”

The Best Building Project award was presented to Rodgers Builders at the Carolinas AGC Annual Convention at The Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando, FL, January 27, 2005.

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