The Dallas Metro Master Plan is an initiative that vacates three downtown buildings, consolidating a financial services company’s personnel into two remaining buildings and a newly leased building, Infomart located at 1950 Stemmons Freeway. We provided construction management services for the renovation of an existing space within the iconic Infomart building to provide a robust processing center for the financial services client’s regional operations. Providing construction fit-out in this 24/7, occupied building required extensive coordination and a detailed safety plan for moving people and materials in and out of this heavily traveled building in Dallas.
LEEDing the Pack
A global initiative by the financial service client is to create LEED certified environments in all of its spaces around the world. Our firm has provided LEED construction services to the client for millions of square feet globally. For this project, LEED Certified status was established. To achieve this, the financial services client installed new, energy efficient MEP systems. The extensive MEP plan included detailed coordination with building management, and local utility companies, to bring separate power into the building. Daylighting control and indoor atmosphere and air quality were additional categories for the financial services client to earn LEED credits for this project. In addition, we coordinated and carefully documented all waste management during construction including new materials and recycled content.
Going hand-in-hand, scheduling and phased construction were keys to the completion of this extensive infrastructure modernization and fit-out project. The 364,000sf facility now supports a check and credit card processing center as well as administrative offices. Substantial infrastructure improvements, including the addition of a generator yard and power, electrical and mechanical upgrades were required to support round-the-clock operations. A new elevator was installed to provide secured access to the new space. Our staff worked closely with the design team to create an aggressive schedule including four parallel projects:
- Infrastructure (generators, UPS, electrical vault, cooling, load banks)
- Lock box and NER (55,000sf)
- Check processing (71,000sf)
- Card processing (25,000sf)
These projects represent the critical phase of the build-out and occupancy. A second phase consisting of administrative areas (100,000sf), followed shortly after. Phase III, also administrative space (57,000sf), was the final phase.
