Service Center Metals receives 2023 ENR MidAtlantic Award of Merit in the Regional Best Projects contest.
Located in Price George, Virginia, construction on Service Center Metals consisted of a new 190,000 square foot Aluminum Remelt Facility and 102,000 square foot Aluminum Extrusion Facility, sitting on 70 acres. Along with the buildings there are several car and trailer parking areas, large outdoor concrete pads for storage, concrete water wells for equipment, truck scales and a complete forced main sanitary system.
The Remelt Facility is a PEMB with a 64 foot ridge and a 50 foot eave height. The building is divided into 5 separate areas (scrap storage, melting area, casting area, sawing area and cooling area). There are 2 casting furnace concrete foundation pits that are 25’ x 30’ x 10’ deep with multiple levels of piers for support and 3 – 35’ wide high speed coiling doors. The casting area has a 25’ x 18’ x 48’ deep concrete casting pit with a 48” caisson housing the equipment piston that is 78’ deep. The casting pit walls range from 30” thick to 18” thick with interior walls and sump pits. With roughly 40,000 square feet for the sawing area, approximately 70% contains heavy equipment foundations, cable pits and trenches or cast in place rail systems. The scrap storage building has large 10’ high concrete walled bunkers to separate and store the scrap with 14” thickened slab runways called “Glama Zones”, named for the tremendously heavy Glama equipment that moves and loads the aluminum scrap. There are 8 loading docks and bridge cranes ranging from 5 tons to 35 tons, the 35 ton bridge crane has a 105′ span.
The Extrusion Facility is a PEMB with 45’ eave height. This clear span building houses large extrusion and press equipment with heavy thickened concrete foundations, deep pits, rail systems and long cable pits. It has 10 loading docks and 3 bridge cranes ranging from 5 tons to 20 tons.
Service Center Metals broke ground in January 2022 and was completed in March 2023. The facility was was operational before turnover.
Hodge Engineering served as both the Lead Design Firm and the Structural Engineer, and Townes Engineering was the Civil Engineer for the project.
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All photos below are courtesy of Service Center Metals.
