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Healthcare System Builds a Safer Environment of Care from the Ground Up
A leading healthcare system working with an experienced Designer and General Contractor needed to ensure future patient safety and a seamless transition from design to construction for two new state-of-the-art inpatient facilities.
Best-in-Class Water Treatment Plant Uses Modeling for a Smooth Upgrade
The Noman M. Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant (NMCPCP) is an award-winning facility in Fairfax County, VA, treating 40 million gallons of wastewater daily. When a critical need arose to upgrade 40 motor control centers and 18 distribution centers, the general contractor needed to execute the complex work without disrupting the plant’s continuous, peak performance. They engaged Coda as a trusted advisor to create a single source of truth and mitigate project risks through advanced modeling.
Government
Existing Conditions
Smooth Takeoff: Early Design Coordination at Houston International Airport
This project encompassed a 222,000 square foot expansion and 218,000 square foot renovation at the Houston Airport, including enhancements to baggage handling areas, ticketing halls, security checkpoints, and roadway infrastructure. Coda was engaged to apply its design review services, enabling proactive technical review and ensuring constructability, compliance, and seamless system integration.
Transportation
Design Coordination
ATL’s Tunnel Expansion Gets Smart: Building the Future From Below
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport—one of the busiest in the world—undertook a major infrastructure enhancement with the Plane Train Tunnel West Extension. Given the risks associated with tunneling beneath an active airport and the critical importance of avoiding costly surprises, understanding the existing subsurface conditions was essential. Coda was brought on board to provide vital underground insights, helping mitigate potential conflicts and streamline the design process.
Transportation
Underground Coordination
Alamo Museum Preserves Iconic Buildings and History for 21st Century Guests
The Alamo Visitor Center and Museum will transform the historic Crockett (built in 1882) and Woolworth (built in 1921) buildings in San Antonio into a state-of-the-art facility, showcasing the complete 300-year history of the iconic Alamo site. The building exterior and select interior structural elements will be preserved, so Coda documented the existing conditions of the historic buildings to ensure smooth integration with the newly planned space.
Sports/Entertainment
Existing Conditions
D.C. Mixed-Use Development Meets Diverse Needs with Scrupulous Coordination
1333 M Street is a mixed-use development in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. For meticulous attention to code, compliance, and life safety requirements, as well as placement of architectural, structural, and mechanical systems during the design phase, the developer called Coda.
Real Estate
Design Coordination
Foulger Pratt Ensures Sound Structure for Historic Building Transformation
Developer Foulger Pratt acquired 1425 NY Avenue in Washington, DC with plans to create 243 Class A+, luxury residential units. Prior to the project start, Foulger Pratt’s General Contractor called Coda to determine how best to approach the post-tensioned cables providing structural support for the building.
Real Estate
Existing Conditions
CNU Uses Design Analysis to Ensure Highly Accurate Hospital Construction Bid
CNU’s Natomas Medical Center is a new 14-story medical complex and teaching hospital that includes 400 beds, dormitories, a childcare center, senior residential care facility, administrative offices, and commercial and retail spaces. Coda identified areas of risk in the design drawings so that changes could be incorporated before bid day, ensuring the bid was as accurate as possible.
Healthcare
Design Coordination
Advanced Underground Data Gives Riverwalk San Diego a Fresh Start
The Riverwalk San Diego project will include approximately 4,300 multifamily units, 152,000 square feet of retail and one million square feet of office space built atop an old golf club. To mitigate the many potential below-grade issues, the general contractor brought in Coda.
Sports/Entertainment
Underground Coordination
New Amtrak Tunnel Gets a Smooth Start with Underground Modeling from Coda
Amtrak’s Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program aims to replace the 150-year-old Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel—the largest bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor—with a new tunnel that will carry both Amtrak and Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) trains. Coda provided a thorough analysis of all underground elements spanning the new, two-mile route.
Transportation
Underground Coordination
D.C.’s Capital One Arena and Gallery Place Transformation Starts with Data Collection
Monumental Sports Entertainment’s general contractor turned to Coda for the accurate documentation they needed for transformation of the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena and the adjacent 660,000 sq. ft. Gallery Place shopping center.
Sports/Entertainment
Existing Conditions
Amtrak Streamlines Design and Avoids Major Underground Obstacles
When Amtrak’s Ivy City train yard in Washington, D.C., needed 4 new maintenance and inspection tracks, 3 new service and cleaning tracks, and an upgrade of existing high speed rail tracks, they called Coda to accurately map underground obstacles.
Transportation
Underground Coordination
University of California San Diego Resolves Issues Before Construction to Stay on Schedule
UCSD’s new Pepper Canyon West Living & Learning Neighborhood (PCWLLN) is a more than $300 million project to construct two mixed-use towers housing more than 1,400 student units. The University’s accelerated schedule required overlapping design and construction, so they called Coda to identify issues before they became problems.
Higher Education
Design Coordination
U.S. Government Digitizes Military Asset for Mission Success
A United States Government entity needed to convert laser scan data of a critical asset into an an intelligent, rich, functional 3D model—within a highly secure environment. Because they required specialized digital services with stringent physical and cybersecurity protocols, they chose Coda.
Government
Existing Conditions
Healthcare System Builds a Safer Environment of Care from the Ground Up
A leading healthcare system working with an experienced Designer and General Contractor needed to ensure future patient safety and a seamless transition from design to construction for two new state-of-the-art inpatient facilities.
Healthcare
Design Coordination
Healthcare System Leverages Data During Construction to Create Optimal Facilities
A leading nonprofit healthcare system set out to improve their facilities operations and maintenance to become more efficient, more effective, and provide better patient care. Coda’s assessment would become a basis for alignment and consistency of data for new construction projects and existing facilities, providing improved outcomes for operations, maintenance, sustainability, and compliance initiatives.
Healthcare
Facility Data Strategy
University of California San Diego Meets Aggressive Schedule for New Neighborhood
The new Living & Learning Neighborhood is a more than $300M project. Coda mapped and coordinated the existing subsurface infrastructure with the proposed design to create a single source of information to guide decisions in the field.
Higher Education
Underground Coordination
Chicago O’Hare International Airport Gets 3D Vision for the Future
Coda was tapped to provide a laser scan and 3D model of existing building systems so that the proposed design would integrate with the existing infrastructure efficiently and seamlessly.
Transportation
Existing Conditions