Scope
Midtown Community Court & theater, built in 1865 and designated as a New York Historic Landmark, is approximately 25,000 square feet and comprises of a sub-cellar and cellar, a mezzanine level, and six floors. The general scope of work involves the demolition of an existing exterior stair, masonry wall with its foundation in the rear courtyard to be replaced with an new two hours fire resistive curtain wall/foundation addition which provides extra cellar space for new infrastructure equipment, a large conference room on the first floor, and an enclosed new egress stairwell from the sub cellar to the 6th floor. As part of the building’s envelope upgrade, the scope will include the rehabilitation of the landmark front façade, east & west masonry walls to receive stucco, new windows, new roofing with a major skylight restoration. In addition to the scope of work, the building will receive infrastructure upgrade affecting the mechanical, heating, cooling, plumbing, sprinkler, fire alarm, electrical and lighting system for the building. To monitor the efficient of some of these new systems, a Building Management System will be included in the scope of work. As for interior scope of work, upgrade public restrooms in floors 1thur 6 to incorporate ADA compliance & new restroom design, built interior walls to modify existing wall layout to incorporate separate or combine systems in one location, and built an enclosed north & south shaft walls to incorporate new mechanical supply & return ducts to the roof. Replace existing ceiling with new non-rated & fire rated ceiling thru out. Restore/rebuild and add new elevator’s shaft walls to modernized and install two new elevators.
