Hopkins House Apartments
Roof Design
Hopkins House Apartments Baltimore, Maryland
Client: WPM Real Estate Management | Year Completed: 2014 | Approximate Project Contract Value: Not determined
The Hopkins House Apartments building consists of one eighteen story apartment building constructed circa 1967. The roof area is approximately 23,500 square feet and consists of structural concrete roof deck with hot-mopped vapor barrier, insulation board and single-ply roof membrane. There is a minimal parapet wall around perimeter. Roof accessories consist of HVAC equipment and an elevator machine room penthouse. The Client engaged Building Envelope Consulting, LLC (BEC) to perform a roof survey and investigation for the design of the roof replacement project.
BEC provided pre-design investigations and preparation of plans and specifications for bidding the project. BEC hosted a pre-bid meeting, collected and reviewed bids and submitted a bid summary to the Client. Design challenges for the project included the addition of permanent fall protection anchors for window washing equipment and provision for solar panels and penetration flashing. Additionally, tapered roof insulation was added designed to raise the perimeter parapet walls to meet minimum requirements, provide positive slope to the roof drains, add additional drains to meet minimum requirements and add through-wall scupper overflow drains.
The project is currently on-going. BEC will continue to be involved through the Contract Administration and Construction Observation phase of the project. Construction began in Spring 2015.