The Quin Apartments is located at the northeast corner of Florida Street and South 2nd Street in Walker’s Point of Milwaukee, Wisc. In addition to apartments, The Quin has a 1,200-square-foot retail space on the ground floor. Precast on this project includes about 20,000 square feet of hollow core and solid slabs, 47 beams and 37 columns.
Precast concrete buildings are designed for durability, robustness, and continuity.
As 100-year lifecycles become the rule, rather than the exception, precast concrete structures can accommodate change easily and economically with the appropriate choice of interior systems and access floors for connectivity. An open floor plate allows a flexible interior that can accommodate a variety of tenant scenarios. Column-free space allows additional flexibility in floor plans and layouts. Shallow floor thicknesses with fewer beams provide unobstructed ceiling cavities for mechanical and electrical systems.
Precast concrete can incorporate a variety of colors, textures, and finishes, making every project a custom design. Precast concrete can be adapted to a wide variety of project designs, types, and needs. It can also provide the continuous insulation, continuous air barrier, and vapor barrier all in the same system. In addition to a beautiful structure, a precast concrete building is resilient, able to withstand even the worst weather conditions, like hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, wildfires, and earthquakes. It also meets all FEMA P-361 criteria for safe rooms, which must provide a near-absolute protection from wind and wind-blown objects in the most serious windstorms, like tornados.
Precast concrete is ideal for offices, schools for all ages, student housing, retail, prisons, government buildings, sports arenas and stadiums, warehouses, senior housing, and more. As all these types of buildings receive daily wear and tear, and many can house thousands of people at any given time, these structures must last through years of constant use. Precast concrete buildings can be designed for 100-year service life with minimal upkeep.
Precast concrete buildings are designed to stand the test of time.