Winter SPACES demolished and renovated the fourth floor of the occupied University of North Georgia Cumming Campus building. Located in Cumming City Hall on the 4th floor, the 12,500 square-foot renovation included the demolition and re-building of satellite classrooms for UNG’s Continuing Education and Master’s program. Half of the area received a “facelift” with new finishes, and the other half was a complete demolition and build-out of a new floor plan to meet the Owner’s needs, including many electrical additions to meet the technological needs of the University.

Winter’s 2,100 square-foot renovation of the Top Shop and Top Man sales areas in Nordstrom began with demolition, followed by the installation of all new finishes to support the store’s rebranding. The scope of work included concrete repair and polishing, installation of new sales fixtures, racks, hanging racks, flooring transition strips, and magnet wall covering. All of the work done by Winter’s SPACES team was performed at night and the construction site was kept isolated from the surrounding store areas, people, and merchandise by using a negative air and fame resistant enclosure, allowing Nordstrom to continue operations without disruption from dust, noise, and vibration. The store remained fully operational while work was underway, and the project was completed on schedule, allowing the sales area to reopen on time.

The Environmental Resources Management 14,000 square-foot build-out was a Class A office project built at the Wildwood Towers in the East Cobb area. Work on the office included building out the common area corridors for the 15th floor. The fast-track project also included high-end detailed walls, millwork, and flooring. The floor plan included a long radius feature wall that extends over half the length of the space. The floors above and below in the Cousins Properties building were occupied throughout construction, so extra work was required for the extensive cabling done underneath the ERM floor to feed several floor boxes. Despite the challenges, Winter’s team completed the project on time and on budget by working overtime and through the holidays. While Winter was performing construction work, regular business hours were maintained on the surrounding floors.

This renovation marks the entry of the nationally branded Cristo Rey High School into the Atlanta market. Cristo Rey High School serves low-income students by giving them a college-prep education and work experience in a corporate office.

The 39,000 square-foot building was the former location of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta headquarters and is located in the heart of Midtown, close to Marta transportation for easy accessibility.

The scope of work included demolition, abatement, and build-out of the building’s second floor, including 20 classrooms, a cafeteria, worship center, exercise room, locker rooms, and administrative offices. Sound walls were built throughout the space, and the mechanical and electrical systems were reconstructed to serve the new layout. New modern, code-compliant restroom stacks were added to each floor to accommodate the student body, and exit stairs were all brought up to code. The old VAT floor was first encapsulated and then covered with new flooring. All work was completed on a fast tracked schedule to open the school in time for the new school year.

Winter SPACES renovated the first floor of Harkness Hall to bring the 1930s-era building into the 21st century. Home to Clark Atlanta University’s Presidential office, Harkness Hall is an historic building where the eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was delivered. Winter SPACES took great care in renovating 4,180 square feet of this iconic building’s first floor with work that included asbestos and lead abatement, a new floor plan and layout, an upgraded HVAC system, new bathrooms, and new furnishes.

The first phase of the Animal Research Facility Renovation project consisted of renovating the previously unused rooftop space in an existing Clark Atlanta University laboratory building into CAU’s future Cancer Research Center.

This required demolition of existing structures and the construction of a new 7-story steel stair and elevator tower, which will provide direct access to the penthouse level, will become the newly renovated lab space for animal research in subsequent phases.

Site logistics for the vertical transportation tower proved challenging, but the project team overcame all obstacles to successfully complete this phase of the renovation on time and on budget. One major solution was to maintain the existing service elevator, saving the project extraordinary costs.

The future state-of-the-art Animal Research laboratory will have laboratory-grade HVAC, control, illumination, drainage, animal housing, and processing systems.