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Riverside Distribution Center


            Owner/User: Emory Hill & Co., Inc.
            Location: Harford County, Maryland

            Design Statement:  Bernardon provided architectural
            design services and coordination of engineering
            disciplines for a 300,944 SF building, the first of two
            crossdock distribution buildings designed for the site.

            The  entrances  were  designed  to  respond  to  existing
            industrial buildings on the site that are historically
            significant, having been designed by a student of Walter
            Gropius of the Bauhaus movement. The building has a
            steel joist and wide flange beam roof structure supported   Site-cast concrete panels were chosen for their ease
            by load bearing, tilt-up concrete, and exterior wall   of construction, capacity to bear the load of the roof
            panels. Exterior load bearing panels at the entrance were   structure, the durability of the material, and competitive
            supported on concrete cast-in-place exterior columns.  construction cost.












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