Dr. P Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center [Phase 2 Under Construction]

[smileguy]

3 hours ago, Jernigan said:

It looks like a second fenced off perimeter going up to Orange Ave.  is this for staging or another project?

The interior black vertical surface that could look like a fenced perimeter is excavated. The one up next to Orange has the concrete barricade base. 

[WAJAS]

How do they stage for projects boxed in on all four sides? I never really thought about it.

[Boomer136]

Fence extends into the road and lots of flat beds from where they can find room to stage.

[jrs2]

On 5/9/2017 at 10:34 PM, WAJAS98 said:

How do they stage for projects boxed in on all four sides? I never really thought about it.

...See Chicago, NYC, etc.  

[dcluley98]

Yeah, it depends on the project, but a lot of times they will rent space at another vacant nearby site for worker parking and bus workers over in the early morning and store some materials there. Mostly it is good scheduling with JIT (Just in time) deliveries so that there is not a whole lot of stored material. Also can use the building footprint itself for certain things. With tilt wall construction on a constrained site, they can use flat foundations as casting beds for the wall panels, or they can use precast sections and truck them in the day of installation. I am not positive of the structural systems involved in this project in particular, but I imagine a combination of some of these things will be utilized to mitigate the lack of space available on site. They will use the footprint of the building after dry-in to store materials for MEP and interior finishes. A building like this is ideal because you have a large room to store stuff in without worrying about structural components in the way.

Also, a lot of prefab work is done for MEP scopes via BIM on a project of this size. They will build the project virtually before they build the project, and then use these models to eliminate errors, clashes, and rework in the field.  Once the digital version is refined by the Architect, Engineers, and key structural, acoustical, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing subcontractors, they can build much of the necessary guts offsite, ship it to site in manageable chunks the day the installation is scheduled to start, and put it in place. The level of pre-planning and detail is crazy for this magnitude of project, especially on the acoustical, electrical, mechanical, and specialty side of a world-class performing arts center. It is truly amazing what designers, engineers, and builders can do these days!

Edited May 25, 2017 by dcluley98

[Metro]

It looks like the base of a tower crane for phase 2 is in place.

[bulldogger]

The crane is going up right now.  I tried to get a pic when I was driving up Rosalind, but I missed.  It is nice driving up Rosalind.  There are multiple cranes in the sky now.

[Metro]

Here is the webcam link: https://www.drphillipscenter.org/explore/webcam.stml/

[gibby]

Can someone start a "Phase 2" thread?  I have no idea how to do it.  Thanks.

[metal93]

I think it should all just be kept in a single thread, all that has to be done is modify the title of this thread, change the bracketed portion to [Phase 2 under construction].

[orange87]

33 minutes ago, metal93 said:

I think it should all just be kept in a single thread, all that has to be done is modify the title of this thread, change the bracketed portion to [Phase 2 under construction].

I agree. No need to make a whole new thread. After all, this is still the same building. They're just finishing it with phase two. Technically the building is still not completed right now.

Edited July 15, 2017 by orange87

[orange87]

On 7/11/2017 at 10:45 AM, Metro said:

Here is the webcam link: https://www.drphillipscenter.org/explore/webcam.stml/

Unfortunately the link to view the progress of Dr. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center phase 2 has stopped working. 

[jrs2]

drove by there.  their basement is pretty deep.  the original depth they dug to has doubled in depth the past few months; it steps down.

[smileguy]

5 hours ago, jrs2 said:

drove by there.  their basement is pretty deep.  the original depth they dug to has doubled in depth the past few months; it steps down.

I searched for the section view drawings, and can't come up with them.  If I remember correctly (going back almost a decade now) there is a mechanism to store seating under the floor of the space when it converts to a flat-floor configuration. That may be what the extra depth is for.

[smileguy]

From this morning at the Dr. Phillips Center's ground floor. I meant to get some from up above, but wasn't able to after my event.

 

[jgardnerucf]

Couldn't help it.

[JFW657]

Watching Rick Steve's Europe on PBS. This episode he's in Copenhagen. He began the show with a boat ride down the city's main canal and past the Copenhagen Opera House. 

I couldn't help but notice a certain similarity...

....to another, somewhat newer and much more local performing arts venue.

Possibly the source of inspiration for DPAC?

[sunshine]

Copenhagen Opera House building itself is probably two times the size of Orlando and way nicer for a cheaper price.

[HankStrong]

44 minutes ago, sunshine said:

Copenhagen Opera House building itself is probably two times the size of Orlando and way nicer for a cheaper price.

You typically seem to have a strong distaste for almost anything Orlando does, but this isn't quite true.

 

From Denmark:

https://ing.dk/artikel/nordmaendenes-kompromislose-opera-71630

From Dr. Phillips:

https://www.drphillipscenter.org/explore/about/faqs/

 

Their opera house is about 415,000 sq feet in gross space with about 120,000 sq feet in public space.

The Dr. Phillips is about 330,000 sq feet (yes about 25% smaller, but definitely not half!) but they don't list public space.  I googled it and saw some blog posts & misc. crap saying about 100,000 sq feet of public space, but couldn't quickly find a hard number that I'd call a fact.  If you keep the same ratio, about 25% smaller would be 90,000 sq feet of public space.

Their opera house cost over $500M in US dollars in 2001 money.  That's quite a bit more in today's money.

The Dr. Phillips is set to cost about $515M.

 

 

Just fact checking.

Edited October 5, 2017 by HankStrong

[JFW657]

2 hours ago, sunshine said:

Copenhagen Opera House building itself is probably two times the size of Orlando and way nicer for a cheaper price.

Whether your claims are accurate or not, my comment had to do with the obvious similarities in overall appearance.

I think the case could be made that the designer of DPAC was at least moderately influenced by Copenhagen's opera house.

[popsiclebrandon]

15 hours ago, smileguy said:

From this morning at the Dr. Phillips Center's ground floor. I meant to get some from up above, but wasn't able to after my event.

 

Can someone much smarter than myself explain what is going on here? They look like rotted away beams but I would assume they are all brand new going in there.

[JFW657]

1 hour ago, popsiclebrandon said:

Can someone much smarter than myself explain what is going on here? They look like rotted away beams but I would assume they are all brand new going in there.

I was thinking the same thing. 

Maybethey will put round or square forms around each then pour more concrete around them.

[cwetteland]

Assumed, whatever they were, they were wrapped so as not to get any of the poured concrete on them.

[alex]

It's called art, guys, look it up. 

[dcluley98]

Cast-in-place piles to support the foundation waiting to be capped.