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SpotlightOnSuccess KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS Kapalama Strategic The Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Strategic Redevelopment Project is comprised of five projects under a single, $118.5 million contract. Three of the five projects—the Middle School Redevelopment, the PE/Athletics Complex and the Kaiwakiloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center—have been completed. The remaining two phases of the project, to be completed in 2014, are dormitories and a parking structure. The completed phases of the project are built into the rocky and sloped hillside at the Kapalama campus and, combined with the logistics of working in an operating campus, made staging and access for construction a challenge, says Glen Kaneshige, president of Nordic PCL. “For the first three projects, providing for the safety of the students, faculty and staff at all times was paramount,” Kaneshige says, adding that the project team provided “detailed fencing and traffic control plans that were reviewed by campus operations staff to provide adequate programmatic access to campus areas while construction was happening.” Nordic PCL was selected by Kamehameha Schools to provide preconstruction services in December 2007. In early 2009, the project was suspended because of the local economic recession at the end of 2008. In early 2010, Kamehameha Schools put the project out to bid and Nordic PCL won with the lowest bid. Cultural Center The two-level Kaiwakiloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center was built on 1.63 acres on the campus and includes classrooms, a commercial kitchen, mechanical and electrical rooms, covered parking, large assembly hall and 15,000-square-feet of open artificial turf field for ceremonies and outdoor activities. “The cultural center is a longanticipated campus landmark that gives Kamehameha Schools an excellent opportunity to engrain the true Hawaiian culture in the youth for generations to come,” Kaneshige says. “The cultural significance of the center to Kamehameha Schools was apparent to the project team and raised our awareness that the quality of the finished product had to exceed the expectations of the school and alumni.” During the project’s early stages, the Nordic PCL team met with Kamehemeha Schools representatives to identify key components to the structure. “Some of these items identified include a hand-carved Ohia log at Hale Mana building that is suspended 45 feet in the air,” Kaneshige says. “There are also four Ohia log posts at the four corners of the building. All of the Ohia is overlooking a star compass that is located in the center of the building. The owner and design team were adamant about using real rock at all construction, not veneer. The project team addressed all of these critical items and turned over the building to a 6 | BUILDING INDUSTRY | DECEMBER 2012 very satisfied client.” The structure is a blend of CIP (concrete in practice) walls, CMU (concrete in practice) and precast planks with topping. The project team had to excavate the face of a “blue-rock” hill to accommodate the new building into the hillside. Kaneshige says workers removed “15,000 cubic yards of rock and earth to build the new structure into the hillside on a 1-acre jobsite during the rainy season.” Middle School The Middle School project, Kaneshige explains, began with the hazmat abatement and demolition of nine existing structures followed by the construction of a new middle school and administration building. The structures include a three-level open-learning classroom building, twolevel building to house the administration, cafeteria and band hall, and a single-level chiller central plant. The building structural components included continuous and spread concrete footings, slab-on-grade, prestressed precast planks with concrete topping, suspended CIP slabs, concrete walls and CMU walls. The building exterior includes DEFS (direct-applied exterior finish system) finish and CMU walls, standing seam metal roofing, and aluminum storefronts and windows. Because of school drop off and pickup times, construction traffic was allowed only between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Detailed delivery schedules

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Building Industry Magazine - December 2012

CONTENTS
FEATURES
TOP STORIES AND PROJECTS OF 2012
GREEN BUILDERS
GUAM
GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION (GCA) HAWAII
NEWS BEAT
Beachwalk Sewer Pipe Installed
Center for Architecture Opens
A/C Warehouse Launches Training Center
Paauilo Slaughterhouse Gets Upgrades
Honsador Lumber Is Dewils Dealer
Rain Pavilion For Hawaii Nature Center
Kapiolani Med Center Tops Off Garage
DEPARTMENTS:
Editor’s Corner
Datebook
Spotlight on Success: Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus
Contracts Awarded
Low Bids
Concept to Completion: FBI in Kapolei
Best Practices - The Role of the CEO
New Products

Building Industry Magazine - December 2012