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RAI Engineering<\/b><\/h4>\nRAI Engineering<\/b><\/h4>\nProject Location:<\/b> Louisville, KY<\/p>\n
Category:<\/b> Housing + Residential, Small Firm<\/p>\n
Started:<\/b> March 1, 2018<\/p>\n
Completed:<\/b> June 9, 2021<\/p>\n
Project Budget:<\/b> $21,000,000<\/p>\n
Project Cost:<\/b> $21,222,754<\/p>\n
Project Leadership Team:<\/b><\/p>\n Highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RAI Engineering Project Location: Louisville, KY Category: Housing + Residential, Small Firm Started: March 1, 2018 Completed: June 9, 2021 Project Budget: $21,000,000 Project Cost: $21,222,754 Project Leadership Team: Bernard Pincus – Director Choice Neighborhood Implementation- Louisville Metro Housing Authority Mike Saunders – Senior Vice President & Director of Design & Construction – McCormack Baron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4085,"featured_media":2055498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7119],"tags":[6246,377,32707,32689,278,525,231,32699,32706,236,32700,754,206,205,15854,18286,6858,32697,32698],"acf":[],"views":43,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beecher1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Project Overview:<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>The Beecher Terrace Senior Building project is part of a larger movement to return Louisville\u2019s Russell neighborhood to its early desirability and prestige.\u00a0 <\/span>After decades of flooding, deficient public housing development, and misguided urban renewal efforts, the Russell neighborhood was in desperate need of redevelopment.\u00a0 <\/span>The redevelopment of the Beecher Terrace complex is a vital part of this renewal.\u00a0 <\/span>The Beecher Terrace Complex sits on 31.4 acres, directly adjacent to the city\u2019s downtown central business district across 9th street.\u00a0 <\/span>A phased revitalization of the neighborhood, this project includes 640 housing units, featuring 620 mixed-use rentals, senior housing, and 20 homeownership units.\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, this development will comprise 39 new buildings and public roadways.\u00a0 <\/span>The first phase of the project is the senior building.\u00a0 <\/span>The Beecher Terrace Senior building is an incredible first step in this revitalization process; the building is a four-story wood framed structure, approximately 111,857 square feet in size, that contains 117 units for seniors and onsite management offices.\u00a0 <\/span>It also features offices, fitness centers, a crafts room, billiards, a doctor exam office, a salon, lounges, and a community dining and warming kitchen.\u00a0 <\/span>All walls in the structure are made of prefabricated wood wall panels and the floor and roof framing were constructed using pre-engineering wood trusses.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-cs-engineer-magazine.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Beecher4.jpg\")
Impact(s): <\/b>The Beecher Terrace Senior Building project is part of a larger project to help attract investment into the Russell neighborhood, which will subsequently improve the quality of life for all residents.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the major goals is to attract retail and commercial offerings while simultaneously decreasing the number of vacant buildings in the neighborhood.\u00a0 <\/span>This project also has environmental considerations in mind.\u00a0 <\/span>The redevelopment project is currently pursuing LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) and Enterprise Green Community Certification.<\/p>\n\n