Cars Plus & Cycles Plus, Maite Dealership

Project Details

ROLE
Prime Contractor

CONTRACT AMOUNT
$5.93 Million

OWNER
Cars Plus/Joey Crisostomo

LOCATION
Maite, Guam

SIZE
13,800 Square Feet

COMPLETION
2007

Project Description

The complex is comprised of two air-conditioned showrooms to showcase the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Hyundai, Suzuki and Kawasaki dealerships and includes 15 sales offices. The showrooms are separated by the service bay drive-thru breezeway. The facility is equipped with a full back-up power generation system. The 3,000-square-foot administration office located on the second floor houses the president and vice president’s offices, accounting department, records storage, conference room and business offices.

The facility also consists of a modern 8,400-square-foot service bay automotive shop with 17 auto-lift stations, one wheel alignment machine station, and 17 mechanic work stations. The 2,400-square-foot parts warehouse consists of two floors of parts storage, a technical library, and a parts manager’s office.

The construction methods used on the structure were paramount to the success of the project. The project design utilized a precast concrete tilt-up wall system with a total of 41 precast wall panels cast on the floor slabs. The heaviest wall panel weighed in excess of 32 tons. The flatness of the initial concrete floor placement was crucial since the wall panels would be cast directly on the floor slabs. Stack casting was performed due to the limited floor space available for this process. After the first panel was cast, formwork could be assembled onto the first section in preparation of casting for the next panel. This process was repeated up to six panels high. Careful planning went into this process to ensure that the final lifting and placement of walls could be performed safely and efficiently, allowing the crane operator a safe visual line of site for each lift. A total of 52 13-ton concrete Double-T roof planks were placed for the roofing system. Steel haunch plates were cast into the wall panels where the double-Ts would eventually rest. The roof was then topped off with a 3.5-inch-thick concrete slab.

Awards

2007 Excellence in Construction Awards, Commercial $5 to $10 million Category Winner - Guam Contractors’ Association