Rocketts Landing
Richmond, VA

Project Summary
As the civil engineering firm for the Rocketts Landing 45-acre, mixed-use urban village on the banks of the James River, Timmons Group was responsible for utility, road and civil site design work completed throughout Phases I, II and III of the project. The former industrial brownfield will now feature 2,000 residential units-including apartments, townhouses, lofts and condominiums; 250,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 500,000 square feet of office space as well as open public spaces and a marina.



Services
Services rendered include:

• Utility Design
• Grading and Erosion Control Plans
• Road Design
• Meetings with City for plan development
• Due Diligence

 

Miller & Rhodes
Richmond, VA

Project Summary
Timmons Group is working in conjunction with ECI Development Services, LLC to provide civil engineering consulting to convert the Miller & Rhoads department store into a Hilton Hotel. The project will adaptively reuse the historic department store, located at Fifth and East Broad streets, into a mixed-use development including a 240 room hotel, ground floor retail space and 110 condominium units.

The design team includes engineers, architects, planners and landscape architects from Timmons Group, Commonwealth Architects and Historic Renovation, Inc. Miller & Rhodes started as a dry goods store in 1885 and by 1924 occupied the block bounded by Fifth, East Broad, Sixth and Grace streets. The department store has been vacant since it closed in 1990. The project will provide a top tier hotel to support downtown Richmond’s popularity as a tourist and convention destination. In addition, the condominiums will help meet demand for downtown housing units.

 

National Theater
Richmond, VA

Project Summary
The historic National Theater was sold to RIC Capital Ventures, LLC on September 1, 2006. The buyer plans to renovate the 1923 property into a live music venue for downtown Richmond. The purchase marks the end of a 16-year effort to find a suitable steward for the historic property. The National Theatre opened in 1923 as a movie house for silent films.

Designed by noted theater architect Claude K. Howell, the 1,000-seat building features a Renaissance Revival brick and stone façade with elaborate terra cotta exterior detailing and Adamesque plaster interiors by Italian sculptor Ferrucio Legnaioli.

Project Highlights
Timmons Group managed the project and performed site engineering for an erosion and sediment control plan and utilities design including new sanitary sewer connections, water connections and gas connections to the City lines. Design also included identification of electrical transformer locations and demolition and removal of the sidewalk, old oil tanks and various old utilities.

 

Richmond City Center
Richmond, VA

Project Summary
Timmons Group worked in conjunction with ECI Development Services, LLC to provide civil engineering consulting for an aggressive downtown redevelopment plan aimed at revitalizing Richmond’s urban core. The City Center project was completed to encourage rehabilitation, development and new construction of retail, entertainment, hospitality, dining and parking facilities within an eight block region. As the foundation for this development and to tie the areas together visually, a district-wide streetscape plan was prepared by a team of engineers, architects, landscape architects and planners from Timmons Group, Commonwealth Architects, Cope Linder Architects, Grenald Waldron, the 1717 Design Group and Snead Associates.

Project Highlights
Timmons Group was the lead civil engineering company on the project. Our responsibilities included:

• Topographic Survey
• Utility Master Plan
• Traffic Modeling
• Water, Gas and Sewer Design
• Storm Sewer Design
• Civil Engineering Support of Demolition Plans
• Technical Specifications
• City Approvals for above design plans
• Permits for all construction activities within right-of-way
• Traffic Signal Design
• Traffic Signal Design
• Road Improvement Design
• Surface Parking Lot Design

 

 

Upper Rock District Development
Rockville, MD

Project Summary
The Urban team is providing consulting services in Innovative Stormwater Management for the development of the Upper Rock District in Rockville, Maryland. Timmons Group is collaborating with The JBG Companies and their design team to incorporate innovative and creative stormwater management into the design of this upscale, visibly sustainable mixed-use development. This high profile project in the DC/Maryland area is planned to showcase a number of sustainable design strategies in the building and site design.

 

 

John Marshall Hotel Conversion
Richmond, VA

Project Summary
Timmons Group is the lead civil engineering and surveying consultant for the conversion of the existing John Marshall Hotel. This historic landmark, located at Fifth and Franklin streets, is currently an underutilized hotel property. The project will adaptively reuse the historic hotel, located at Fifth and Franklin Streets, into a mixed-use development in the heart of the performing arts district in downtown Richmond. When complete, the 15 story building will contain 178 luxury apartments, restaurant and ground floor retail space.

The hotel opened in 1929 and played host to six US Presidents before closing in 1988; it reopened in 1999 before closing again five years later. The renovated John Marshall Hotel will help revitalized downtown Richmond and provide a place for residents to live, work and play.

Project Highlights
Timmons Group is providing full topographic surveying, civil engineering, off-site utility analysis and landscape architectural services as a subconsultant to Commonwealth Architects. The topographic survey, utility analysis and schematic design phases of the project are complete. Construction documents for the first few design packages were delivered in fall 2004 with construction starting in 2005.

 

1050 K Street, NW
Washington, DC

Project Summary
This LEED® Gold project involves an innovative green-roof plaza storm-water design for an 11-story office building in the heart of downtown Washington, D.C. The developer assembled a comprehensive team of landscape architects, horticulturalists, civil engineers, irrigation specialists, architects and construction administration experts. Our landscape architects collaborated closely with the architecture team to cultivate the concept of a “living” building that would blur the lines between inside and out. The resulting design involves 2 levels of green roof, with 1 level doubling as an overlook and entertaining terrace. Roof water, chiller water and plaza run-off is collected in a cistern underneath the building. Cistern water is then filtered and pumped through a water feature bordering the entrance lobby, and into a series of three urban bioretention areas integrated into the plaza design. Drip irrigation has been designed for all planting areas to conserve and optimize use of water from the cistern. The irrigation control system utilizes state of the art ET referenced programming via satellite which downloads information from local NOAA weather stations.

Careful consideration was given to the selection of plants for the urban streetscape in a bioretention application. Choosing plants tolerant of the urban climate, which were also beautiful and functional, was a priority in achieving the desired aesthetic. The toughest varieties of green roof plants were selected and arranged to provide year-round interest on the roof gardens.