projects Category: CONCRETE

MGM MUSIC HALL AT FENWAY

Located on the corner of Landsdowne Street and Ipswich Street, the MGM Fenway Theatre is a 5,000 seat music hall venue that is connected to the Northeast side of the historic Fenway Park.

Manafort-Precision was selected to perform the concrete work for the new music hall including the cast in place concrete foundations, foundation walls, waterproofing, slabs on grade, slabs on metal deck, topping slabs and housekeeping pads, as well as all concrete work for the site finishes. The location of this building and its small site footprint in a congested urban area required extensive coordination, communication, and scheduling with all project trades and stakeholders.

 

Manafort’s experience working in urban environments, coordinating work, and commitment to safety, ensured that all of the proper controls were planned and implemented to facilitate the safe, successful, on-time, and on-budget completion of our work.

BUSHNELL SOUTH PARKING GARAGE

The Capital Region Development Authority awarded Manafort Brothers, Inc. the Design Build Contract to design and construct the Bushnell South Parking Garage Facility in Hartford, CT.  With the recent renovation of the adjacent State of CT Office Building and planned mixed-use development projects, this new parking facility was one of the first steps in creating the new Bushnell South Park neighborhood. The new Parking Facility was needed to provide parking for the State of CT DEEP and Judicial Department employees, patrons of the Bushnell Theater, and future area residents while at the same time freeing up existing surface parking lots to allow new residential and commercial development.

 

This 411 space Parking Facility was built on the site of a former 5-story, 125,000-square-foot State of CT Laboratory Building, which Manafort also provided the hazardous material abatement and demolition services on a previous CT DAS project to allow for this new site development.

Manafort’s prime contract for the parking garage design and construction scope included structural excavation, disposal of contaminated soils, H-Pile foundations, cast in place concrete foundations, walls, slabs on grade, topping slabs, precast concrete parking superstructure, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, parking access and revenue control systems, site retaining walls, site utilities, and site finishes.

 

Manafort’s leadership and experience in Design Build projects, including numerous Parking Facilities, combined with our expertise and ability to self perform all site development activities including hazardous material abatement, soil remediation, demolition, civil and utility work, and concrete foundation, made this project a perfect fit.  Manafort completed the project safely, successfully, on-time and on-budget.

MASSDOT ACCELER-8 I-90 BRIDGE REPLACEMENT

The MassDOT Acceler-8 I-90 Bridge Replacement Project involved the rapid replacement of 8 bridges on Interstate 90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) over the course of 8 weekends in the summer of 2021. Using Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) methods, construction that would typically take years, and disturb traffic patterns and cause traffic jams, took less than 2 months. All work was performed and completed in weekend outages from 6pm on Friday evenings through 6am on Monday mornings, meaning each bridge was replaced in a mere 60-hours.

Manafort-Precision was contracted to perform all concrete and grouting work for the 8 bridges during the 60-hour shutdowns. Manafort crews worked three shifts around the clock within the tight work window to complete all of the required work. Manafort’s scope of work included forming, reinforcing, and placing new abutment walls at the Cordaville bridge, forming and placing closure pours and bridge barriers, installation of reinforcing, installation of bridge bracket working platforms, and grouting at the Cordaville, Parkerville, Woodland and Flanders East and Westbound bridges.

 

Due to the accelerated nature of the project, extensive pre-planning, advance preparation, prefabrication, communication and teamwork amongst all project parties was critical to the projects success.   The end result was that all work was completed safely, very successfully, as planned, ahead of schedule, and under budget.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SCHOOL

The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) School was established in 1922 and was originally named Weaver High School.  The school was a Collegiate Gothic masterpiece composed of three parts: a three-story main block for classrooms and two connected buildings for the gym and auditorium.  On September 21, 1976, the Hartford Board of Education renamed the former Weaver High School, the Martin Luther King Jr. School. In 2018, Manafort Brothers, Inc. was selected to perform the demolition, abatement, remediation, civil, utility, and concrete work as part of the complete renovation of this historical school building for the City of Hartford.

 

As part of the demolition scope, Manafort removed substantial amounts of asbestos-containing materials. This included friable pipe wrap, joint compound, boilers, and transite siding. Manafort crews immediately followed behind the abatement activity with a full 169,954 SF interior demolition (back to the structure supportive shell) of all non-structural building components.

Manafort’s concrete scope included cast in place concrete foundations, walls, piers, underpinning, slabs on grade, concrete restoration and low-density foam concrete fill for the existing school renovations. Manafort’s civil and utility scope included structural excavation and backfill, site retaining walls, as well as drainage, sanitary, water and fire service, gas, and telecommunication utility installations for the renovation project.

 

Manafort self-performed all of the work while also working closely coordinating with the entire project team under an aggressive project schedule. All work was completed safely, on time, and on budget.