Alvera Apartments

Approximately 60% of the units are studio units of less than 400 square feet, offering affordable rents attractive to the target market. The balance are one- and two-bedroom units.

The first two levels of the building are above-grade, precast concrete and support five stories of prefabricated wood-framed modular apartment units. Our team installed façade material to the exterior of the building, which served as substrate for significant monumental artwork by a muralist retained by the owner. Retail space and 110 covered parking spaces can be found on the ground level. The majority of parking spaces are within a unique, semi-automated parking system that stacks vehicles three-high.

The building was constructed on a very long and narrow parcel – roughly 360 feet long and only 78 feet wide. Private property is adjacent on both long sides, which limited construction access to the site's two narrow ends fronting the streets. This challenging access was compounded by the requirement of installing the prefabricated modular apartment units. Weighing up to 40,000 pounds each, erecting and setting them into place required a very large crane, for which very little space was available on the narrow urban site.

With deep expertise building in tight urban areas, we were well-equipped to navigate these nuances. Agreements were negotiated with adjoining landowners to allow access for the crane and lift to erect and set the modular apartments. All subsequent façade work was completed from roof-mounted swing stages.

The Ackerberg Group chose us as general contractor for this project based on successfully completing previous projects. In addition to providing value engineering and constructability assistance to the design team on the project, we provided the client with field integrated innovative solutions to ensure the project stayed on schedule.

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