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July 8, 2000 Building Update
Dan Thompson, Building Committee
As you may have noticed -- if you have had chance to go by the project on Yamato Road, just west of 441 and just east of Cain
Boulevard -- the exterior walls are up, most of the tie beams are poured and in a few weeks you will see four large steel beams lifted into place that are the main supports for the roof. These beams will slope upward at an angle of approximately 30 degrees to a height of about 30 feet of the floor. As the roof structure begins to take shape towards the end of the month and the beginning of next month we will begin to have the sense of real progress.
At the risk of boring you to tears, I thought you might be interested in some of the statistics of the brick and mortar: As you may know this building is the first phase of construction at the site. There are two tracts of land that Diocese owns that run from 441 on the east to Cain Boulevard on the west. The first phase is tract 57, which is just short of 9 acres. The parish will ultimately pay for the entire parcel of land.
The overall dimensions of the building are 148 feet x 148 feet or 21,904 square feet under roof. With 360 lineal feet of 10-foot wide open colonnade around the perimeter covered with a 14-foot roof overhang
that will be a great place for gathering. This will also serve as a covered walk area to the future church building. The building will be 37 feet in height. The exterior walls are insulated concrete block with a sand stucco finish.
The glass will be all impact resistant to meet the current codes.
The total enclosed area of the building is 14,750 square feet; the floor will be 20.5 feet above sea level. The building is fully fire sprinkler enabled. The roof is a hip design that will be finished with concrete tile. There will be assembly seating for 786 persons and banquet seating for about 350 persons. There will be six classrooms with capacity for 160 persons and glass viewing windows into the assembly area for overflow seating or parents with small children.
The assembly/altar area is 80 feet by 80 feet or more than four times our current space. The altar area is three steps higher than the seating and is also accessible by two ramps. The flooring will be part carpet and part tile, the ceiling is sloped up to 30 feet at the peak. Lighting will be indirect.
The administration and Sacristy area will have a vestibule, secretarial area, workroom, four private offices, a toilet room, four storage closets, and closet space for vestments.
The kitchen is approximately 700 square feet and plans include walk-in dry storage, toilet room, janitor closet, commercial hood and fan, fire protection system, reach-in freezer, reach-in double-door refrigerator, electric convection oven, six burner electric range and oven, ice maker, work tables, coffee and ice tea makers, three compartment sink, and a hand washing sink.
There will be two large classrooms (800 square feet) and two small classrooms (400 square feet). The large classrooms will be capable of being divided in half with sound rated partitions to give us six 400 square feet class rooms that will
accommodate 26 children or adults for meetings or classes. The rooms will have glass windows so that
congregation overflow or parents with small children can view the the large assembly area.
There are a total of 120 florescent lights, 165 recessed high hats,
twenty-two 1,000 watt dimmable halogen lights for an indirect lighting system in the main sanctuary. There are 13 parking lot pole lights with
one 400 watt metal halide lamp fixtures each and six pole with two 400 metal halide lamp fixtures each. There are
seven handicapped accessible parking spaces, 72 paved and 162 stabilized grass parking spaces for a total 241 parking spaces.
Trane manufactures the planned air conditioning equipment, with five different zones totaling 77 tons of cooling. There will be a central control system to start and stop the air conditioning at preset
times in order to conserve energy. The system will have local override to allow operation for a period of time to accommodate unscheduled events.
The contractor will install over 2700 lineal feet of storm, sewer, water piping, eleven catch basins, seven manholes, and a 750-gallon grease interceptor. There will be two entrances and exits onto the property from Yamato
Road for Phase I, and ultimately four entrances and exits when the campus is finished. The main entrance will be directly opposite The Lakes of Boca Raton
Drive; the second entrance/exit will be further west towards Cain. Future exits and entrances will be on Cain and 441. The site looks bare now but we will
sustain the planting of a variety of growing things: Button wood, guava, Laurel oak, Live oak, mahogany and Sabal palm
-- a total of 256 trees. Shrubs will include coco plum, firebush, ixora, wax myrtle, myrsine, philodendron, viburnum and Mexican zamia,
totalling 892 shrubs. Ground cover will include 245 Liriope plants
plus 5 acres of Bahia/St. Augustine sod plus Bahia seed. All the planting material will be irrigated
with well water by a 7.5 horse power pump with 17 circuits or zones, each with approximately 83 sprinkler heads and lots of pipe.
Permits and Design
We issued the plans for bid on October 16, 1999. A contractor was selected and permit applied for in November 1999. The master permit was finally issued on April 18, 2000 and the county said that they were amazed that it went so fast!
We have applied for and obtained over fifteen separate permits from agencies ranging from the
US Corps of Engineers to the Exotic Plant Clearing agencies. There are a total of seventeen different design professionals, engineers, architects and scientists that have worked on the project including surveyors, biologists, urban planners, traffic engineers, architects, structural consultants, soil specialists, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, plumbers, electricians, fire protection experts, irrigation engineers, landscape architects, audio consultants, special testing and structural inspection engineers
and MORE!
Stay tuned for further updates as the building progresses. To
see pictures of the building as of July 2000, click here.
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