Botanical Garden building renovated with new windows.The Alter Steel Window Company recently completed the replacement of windows on the grand Museum Building at the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (Bronx) Botanical Garden botanical garden, public place in which plants are grown both for display and for scientific study. An arboretum is a botanical garden devoted chiefly to the growing of woody plants. . Surpassed only by the all glass Conservatory conservatory In architecture, a heavily glazed structure, frequently attached to and directly entered from a dwelling, in which plants are protected and displayed. Unlike the greenhouse, an informal structure situated in the working area of a garden, the conservatory became Building, the Museum Building is the second most impressive structure in the Garden. The window replacements are part of an overall renovation project to bring the turn-of-the-century building up to 21st century serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. . The renovation project involved the replacement of all original wood, double-hung and fixed windows with 363 modern aluminum, double-glazed, insulated in·su·late tr.v. in·su·lat·ed, in·su·lat·ing, in·su·lates 1. To cause to be in a detached or isolated position. See Synonyms at isolate. 2. windows. The landmark Series 5700 heavy commercial, double-hung and picture windows manufactured by Pioneer were selected for the project. The windows feature large 4 3/4" jambs, 1" insulated low-E glass, true divided lights, historic panning, a custom two-tone smoke, antique white color, and circle tops in some instances. Long before the actual window installation could begin, Alter Steel's in-house design team spent months in close collaboration with the project architects, Cabrera Barricklo Architects, P.C., specialists in historical renovations. The architects specified very intricate and unique detailing around the interior and exterior of each window, difficult not only from a design perspective, but also from an installation perspective. The Alter Steel design team was well qualified to meet all the design requirements and incorporate them into the installation plan in a cost effective and timely manner. Louis Perez, project manager for Alter Steel, said the challenges this project presented "were the large size of the windows (8' to 9' tall), the historic sensitivity of the building, and some unique installation obstacles." Extensive detailed custom notching of the exterior historic panning was required to cover mortal gaps between the stone blocks in the facade. Careful design was also needed to align the new window sight lines, since the original wide wood mullion mullion (mŭl`yən), in architecture, a slender, upright intermediate member that subdivides an opening, as a division between panes of a window or between adjacent windows. posts were removed between twinned, tripled, and quadrupled windows. Use of colonial interior snap trim added to the project's installation complexity. Mr. Perez went on to say; "The project management experience of Alter Steel Windows avoided problems and turned this into a textbook example of window replacement in a historic structure." The Museum Building houses several key administrative offices of the Botanical Garden and the Orchid Terrarium terrarium, a miniature garden in an artificial environment, in which small plants and animals may be kept as ornament or for educational purposes. Fish bowls, small fish tanks, large bottles, and carboys are often employed as containers for terrariums; such vessels . Although occupied and operated by the Botanical Garden Society, the Museum Building, as are all buildings in the Garden, is owned by the City of New York. The New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Design and Construction coordinated the renovation project. |
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