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Woolpert Providing Integrated Design Services for CareSource Site

BHDP Architecture contracts with Woolpert to provide landscape design, civil, structural and MEP engineering for the downtown Dayton building.

DAYTON, Ohio (Jan. 4, 2018) — Woolpert has been contracted by BHDP Architecture to provide integrated design services for the newest CareSource building at First and Jefferson streets in downtown Dayton. These integrated services include civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering, and landscape design.

CareSource, a nonprofit managed care company headquartered in Dayton, provides health care coverage to more than 1.8 million customers across five states. It has a workforce of more than 3,100 at multiple sites.

This new 205,000-square-foot, six-story building is at the site of the former Patterson Co-op High School. The building recently hit its “topping out” milestone, which signifies when the steel frame of a building reaches its maximum height. When finished, it will house 800 current and future employees to meet projected growth forecasts. In addition to office and collaborative work spaces, the facility will provide employee amenities, including a cafeteria, a fitness center, locker rooms and training rooms.

Frank Monastra, Woolpert project manager, said the building will utilize a geothermal heating and cooling system like the one used at the nearby CareSource headquarters. The city of Dayton is located above the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer, which is one of the most productive groundwater sources in the U.S.

Monastra lauded the relationship Woolpert has with BHDP and the firms’ collaborative effort over the past two-and-a-half years. He said this relationship enables Woolpert to provide integrated design services, and allows the design team to support a fast-track project delivery method and compress the construction schedule.

The CareSource building is expected to open in the spring of 2019.

About Woolpert
Woolpert is a national architecture, engineering and geospatial (AEG) firm that delivers value to clients by strategically blending engineering excellence with leading-edge technology and geospatial applications. With a dynamic R&D department, Woolpert works with inventive business partners like Google and Esri; operates a fleet of planes, sensors and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); and continually pushes industry boundaries by working with advanced water technologies, asset management, building information modeling (BIM) and sustainable design. Woolpert’s mission is to help its clients progress and become more progressive. For over 100 years and with 25 offices across the United States, Woolpert serves the needs of federal, state and local governments; private and public companies and universities; energy and transportation departments; and the United States Armed Forces. The firm currently is doing business in all 50 states and in six countries. For more information, visit woolpert.com or call 937-531-1258.