Sundt‘s concrete construction expertise is being utilized on a major commercial building project in El Paso, Texas, known as The Fountains at Farah. The new retail center – named after a closed garment factory that once occupied the site – will include up to 80 tenants, plus a two-level, cast-in-place, post-tensioned concrete parking structure, which is being built by Sundt.
A large and growing part of Sundt’s concrete construction work is performing as a subcontractor for other general contractors on their construction projects. That’s the case with The Fountains at Farah parking structure, which Sundt is building as a subcontractor to the project’s general contractor, EMJ Construction. The contract value is $13.5 million.
Our self-perform concrete crews will use approximately 26,000 cubic yards of concrete to build the parking structure, which includes 367,000 square feet of ground-floor parking space, 84,000 square feet of under-deck retail space and 22,000 square feet of sidewalk. A 473,000-square-foot concrete deck supported by post-tensioned concrete beams will provide additional parking and retail space on the second level.
“Our onsite supervision staff has years of experience with post-tensioned concrete,” said Sundt Project Manager Mike Ravy. “We’re also bringing a number of innovative techniques and materials to this project such as concrete designed to achieve tendon stressing strength in just three days, early entry saw cutting equipment for cutting the slab-on-grade control joints to minimize cracking, fibermesh in the slab-on-grade mix to minimize cracking and eliminate steel reinforcing, and state-of-the-art engineering software to create the formwork drawings.”
Sundt began construction of The Fountains at Farah parking structure in August 2012 and will complete it this April.