IMC Construction has broken ground on a new $10.6 million academic building for Malvern Prep, a top-rated independent school in the Philadelphia suburbs. The new 58,000-square-foot Center for Social Impact will link two existing buildings on the Georgian revival campus.

“The Center’s footprint and façade, connecting Carney and Sullivan Halls, will be constructed on a large arc radius and create a new focal point and entrance to the school,” said Daniel O’Rourke, senior project manager for IMC Construction. “It will be a gracious welcome to the campus as well as emphasizing the Augustinian school’s commitment to social justice.”

A bridge will connect the student drop-off area to the new 3-story steel structure clad in brick, cast stone and glass curtainwall. Inside, sunlit common areas will encourage informal gathering, conference rooms will house group meetings and a grand stair will serve as amphitheater seating as well as connecting the first and second levels. Classroom spaces with moveable, writable walls will help to integrate science, technology, engineering, arts and math studies.

Adjacent to the Center, Sullivan Hall will be gutted and thoroughly renovated as a state-of-the-art home for the sciences with easy flow between buildings. Academic spaces in Carney Hall will be updated and renovated.

“Malvern is embarking on a building that will enhance the experience of learning for the students here on campus.” says Rev. Donald F. Reilly, OSA, DMin, Malvern Prep Head of School, in a video on the school’s website. “The excitement comes from the ability for the students now to have a space that accommodates what they are currently learning and how they are learning.”

In addition to sustainable, energy-efficient practices that are now standard, builders will repurpose most of the masonry they remove when the buildings are connected, and will also build a green roof to control stormwater runoff.

The project is expected to be complete for the start of the 2019-20 academic year.

The Malvern Prep Center for Social Impact team includes architect Voith & Mactavish Architects; structural and m/e/p engineer Bala Consulting; and site/civil engineer Nave Newell.

IMC Construction held groundbreaking ceremonies recently for a new apartment building adjacent to the Paoli train station. Station Square, the $35 million project developed by Linden Lane Capital Partners of Philadelphia, will bring 153 luxury apartments to a site of vacant buildings at 37 North Valley Road in Paoli, Chester County. It is expected to be complete in Spring 2020.

“Station Square is a carefully-sited, smart-growth project that will benefit the local economy and add to the beauty of the area,” said Jerry Bronstein, AIA, project executive for IMC Construction. “The building will reflect the style of nearby homes and be surrounded by evergreens and flowering trees. Residents will be able to walk to shops or take the train into Center City.”

The four-story, 256,000-square-foot building will feature one- and two-bedroom apartments, fitness center, club room, multi-media entertainment room, and a co-working space. Outside, a secluded courtyard will contain a pool and multiple lounge and seating areas, raised flower beds, outdoor grills, wet bar, and patio dining areas. Parking is surface and below grade.

The Station Square team includes architect & interior designer Bernardon; structural engineer Baker, Ingram & Associates; m/e/p engineer AEI; and civil engineer Chester Valley Engineers.

Pictured below L to R: Bill Martin, Tredyffrin Township Manager; Harold Mesa, Brian Friedman, and Michael Wachs, Management Team at Linden Lane Capital Partners; Robert Cottone, IMC Construction; Pamela Arms, Beneficial Bank; Neil Liebman, Bernardon Architects; David Falcone, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr; and Andrew Janas, Wind River Holdings.

Chesterbrook Academy Preschool hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate its grand opening at their new location in Malvern. The preschool, which has served the Malvern community for three decades, has moved to a brand-new building at the corner of Route 29 and Atwater Road. Chesterbrook Academy will continue to provide the same safe, nurturing environment and high-quality Links to Learning curriculum that parents have come to know and trust. Chesterbrook Academy serves students ages six weeks to kindergarten. Team members for this project included JBA Architecture & Consulting, architect; Bohler Engineering, civil engineer; BD Engineering, MEP engineer; and Pennoni Associates, structural engineer.

IMC Construction is pleased to announce the appointment of two senior level staff members. Richard Altus has joined the company as Chief Administrative Officer and Michael Gross is IMC’s new Project Executive.

“IMC’s rapid growth was the catalyst for creating these two positions,” said Rob Cottone, President of IMC Construction. “Rich and Mike are at the top of their fields and are key drivers for IMC’s future success.”

Rich Altus is the company’s first Chief Administrative Officer. He is responsible for the major departments of accounting, human resources and information technology. With an entrepreneurial mindset, he brings decades of experience in the C-suites of several venture capital and private equity firms. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Drexel and lives with his family in Media.

Mike Gross has 30 years in the construction industry. With a proven track record of achievement in commercial, higher education, and healthcare facilities, Mike is adept at both client interface and subcontractor management. As Project Executive, he is currently working on a major new healthcare facility in Radnor for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. An alumnus of Bucknell University where he received a BS in Civil Engineering, Mike is a resident of Burlington, New Jersey.

IMC broke ground today on a new $32 million medical office building for Main Line Health in partnership with Axia Women’s Health. The 94,000-square-foot facility in King of Prussia will be a specialty-care center for women.

“This facility will address the preventive, diagnostic and treatment needs of women in the King of Prussia community,” said Art Brinkworth, healthcare project director for IMC Construction. “Logistically, the building will be easily accessible by car or public transportation, patients will be able to move directly from the parking deck to the outpatient center and it will contain a café and secure child care area for parents using the facility.”

The seven-story health center and four-story parking garage will be located in the Town Center mixed-use complex at the Village at Valley Forge. Composed of precast architectural concrete and metal panels, construction is targeted for a sustainability level of three Green Globes, on a scale of one to four.

Services provided by the new center will include primary care, heart health, obstetrics and gynecology, breast health, skin care, and emotional wellness. An ambulatory care center within the facility will offer services to men and women, including cardiology and cardiac testing, endocrinology, neurology, orthopedics, imaging, physical therapy and lab services.

The Main Line Health team includes construction manager IMC Construction; architect NELSON; development manager Anchor Health Properties; site/civil engineer Bohler Engineering; m/e/p engineer Pisarek Engineering; structural engineer O’Donnell & Naccarato; design consultant Perkins Eastman; and landscape architect Glackin Thomas Panzak.

Middle Pictured L to R: Rob Cottone, President, IMC; JoAnn Magnatta, Senior Vice President Facilities, Main Line Health; John Lynch, III, President & CEO, Main Line Health; PJ Camp, Principal of Hammond Hanlon Camp, LLC.

Bottom Pictured L to R: IMC Staff Dave Winter, Superintendent; Chris Mauer, Project Engineer; Mike McBall, Senior Project Manager; Art Brinkworth, Project Executive.

IMC has completed the new corporate headquarters for Equus Capital Partners, one of the nation’s leading private equity fund real estate managers. The 42,000-square-foot building at Ellis Preserve in Newtown Square is targeted for LEED Gold certification and contains 36,000 square feet of reclaimed wood. Creativity, resourcefulness and good timing resulted in cost savings for the client and kept building materials out of the landfill.

“Equus wanted to create a headquarters building that recalled a Chester County barn,” said Ted Jeffries, corporate project director at IMC Construction. “At the time, we were about to start demolition on another Equus property and we suggested that we salvage the wood from one project and use it as reclaimed and recycled product in their headquarters. So, we gave the demolition contractors a list of the materials we needed to reuse from the old building. Because they had a long lead time, the demolition crew could take the wood-framed building apart carefully and salvage the pieces we wanted.”

“The one thing we rarely have in construction is time. Everybody’s always in a rush to tear it down and build the next one. With this project, we were able to take the time to do it right.”

Nearly all of the lumber needed for the new Equus Headquarters was provided from the demolition at the Vanity Fair Outlet Center renovation site in Reading, PA.  Materials salvaged include repurposed wood subflooring milled into roof decking and wood flooring planks, timber treads for stairways, wood beams that became conference and lunch room tables, sliding-track barn doors, exterior windows became inter-office screens, and millwork cabinets reused for storage in the new building. Additional sustainable features include daylighting controls with automatic shades, occupancy lighting sensors and high-performing building systems.

The design and construction team for the Equus Headquarters included general contractor IMC Construction; architect and interior designer D2 Groups; sustainability architect Sheward Partnership; MEP engineers Bala Consulting Engineers; and structural engineers O’Donnell Naccarato.

Other IMC Construction projects for Equus include the new 138-room Hilton Garden Inn, also in Ellis Preserve and the $85 million renovation of the Vanity Fair Outlet Center, currently under construction.

IMC broke ground today on a new $42 million hospital in Quakertown for St. Luke’s University Health Network. The builder is using a fairly new process on the 131,000-square-foot project that will save time and construction costs.

“We are prefabricating the exterior walls through panelization and interior patient room headwalls that will include all medical gas and electrical infrastructure,” explained Art Brinkworth, PE, healthcare project executive for IMC Construction. “The above ceiling utilities will be installed in racks and fabricated in a warehouse off-site while we’re erecting the steel, concrete and the roof components on. That will save a lot of time.”

IMC is working with Worth & Co. in the prefab process, and the interior headwall panels will be constructed in its fabrication facility not far from the construction site in Milford Township, Bucks County.

“Our people will be working in a controlled environment, and not up on ladders,” said Brinkworth. “Then the racks will just roll in and be positioned in the ceiling space. It’s much safer, efficient and will save time and money.”

The new hospital is being constructed as a replacement hospital for the existing Quakertown Hospital, which is landlocked in its downtown location. The new building will include 40 private patient rooms, which can be expanded to an additional 40; 17 diagnostic radiology departments with cat scan, nuclear medicine, mammography, and fluoroscopy machines; surgical and emergency departments; and a laboratory, pharmacy and cafeteria. The cafeteria will feature a large, full-service kitchen. The existing hospital will be repurposed for doctor’s offices, outpatient care and behavioral health facilities.

The St. Luke’s hospital team includes general contractor IMC Construction; architect MKSD Architects; structural engineer Pennoni; MEP engineers HB Engineers; civil engineer Langan Engineering; and medical equipment coordinator HBS.

St. Luke’s University Health Network is growing throughout the region and recently merged with Blue Mountain Health System in Carbon County and Sacred Heart Healthcare system in Lehigh County.

Pictured bottom L to R: Art Brinkworth (IMC Project Executive), Gary Millar (IMC Senior Superintendent), Tom Prescott (IMC Assistant Project Manager), Erick Tripp (IMC Senior Project Manager), Elizabeth DeCarlo (St. Luke’s Project Manager), Rob Cottone (IMC President), Lee Levicoff (St. Luke’s Vice President & Director of Facilities Planning & Construction), and Dennis Pfleiger (President St. Luke’s Quakertown).

IMC has completed renovation of a 208,000-square-foot office building in the northern Philadelphia suburb of Blue Bell. Designed by Erdy McHenry Architecture, Arborcrest 5 will house multiple tenants in a bright, urban-like setting with a full-service café, fitness center, yoga room, basketball court and lounges.

“Office parks today have to be dynamic places with top-notch amenities,” said Rob Cottone, president of IMC Construction. “Arborcrest 5 is a stunning, Class A office building that is also healthy, sustainable and in a prime location.”

The original 2-story structure in the Arborcrest office park was built in 1970 for a pharmaceutical company. Targeted to draw innovative, forward-thinking companies, the renovation has resulted in a modern, attractive building with a rustic, industrial vibe. Leaving selected parts of the original building intact kept tons of construction waste out of landfills. An expanded two-story lobby with a grand stair clad in custom terrazzo connects tenants to the sunny central core. Full-height glass cladding provides expansive views of the entire office park, landscaping and picnic terrace.

Arborcrest 5 is owned by Spear Street Capital of San Francisco, CA and is leased by Jones Lang LaSalle.  The project team includes contractor IMC Construction; architect Erdy McHenry; interior designer D2 Interiors; civil engineer Bohler Engineering; structural engineer Environetics Design; MEP engineer Kupper Engineering; and owner’s representative Trammell Crow.

IMC Construction is proud to announce the promotion of Robert Liberato to Partner.

Recently named to ENR MidAtlantic’s “Top Young Professionals,” Liberato has been with IMC Construction for 12 years. As a Senior Project Manager and a leader of Technology Innovation at IMC, Liberato has established a project implementation technical platform unparalleled in the industry during his tenure. A native Philadelphian, he has worked in project management since he was a sophomore at Villanova, where he earned a BS in Civil Engineering.

“He works hard, leads by example and gets the best from his team by adhering to a high standard himself,” said IMC President Rob Cottone. “He makes sure that our technology for estimating and procurement is state-of-the-art. His tenacity, resourcefulness and leadership have played a significant part in the company’s great success.”

Liberato’s primary responsibility has been with some of IMC’s most complex projects. The King of Prussia Mall is now the largest retail mall in the US due to a $150 million expansion project that he managed. This project was followed by a $150 million research and development project for Chemours located at the University of Delaware’s Science Technology and Advanced Research Campus in Newark, Delaware. The 312,000-square-foot Discovery Hub will consolidate laboratories and offices for approximately 330 scientists, engineers and researchers. Chemours is an industry leader and will be connected with the University of Delaware, one of the foremost bio-engineering schools in the country.

IMC Construction has again been named a Top Workplace in the region by the Philadelphia Media Network. Based on employee responses to an anonymous 3^rd-party survey, Top Workplace has been awarded to IMC in five previous years.

“This recognition means so much to me,” said Robert Cottone, President /CEO of IMC Construction. “Because if our employees enjoy their work and feel invested in the company, they will do the best job possible for our clients.”

IMC staff celebrated the Top Workplaces honor (with whimsy) at the 2018 Top Workplaces Awards Dinner at the Crystal Tea Room on March 15, 2018.

IMC Construction is pleased to announce that Matt Frazier has joined the firm as Project Executive.

Formerly Chief Operating Officer at HOW General Contracting, Frazier has 16 years’ experience with large construction projects in Texas, Virginia, Florida, the Caribbean, and recently worked with the development team on Philadelphia’s new Comcast tower.

He holds a BS in Construction Management from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. As Project Executive in the Production Group, Frazier will be responsible for supporting corporate organizational development in addition to preconstruction of several projects. He lives in Bala Cynwyd and is in training for the Boston Marathon this April.

Workers and the IMC team at the Center for Healthcare Technology in Philadelphia celebrated the topping out. IMC Construction began the structural steel erection of the design-build project in September for the $200M, 19-story tower. Located on one of the last parcels at 3600 Civic Center Boulevard in Philadelphia, the facility will create a new gateway to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The first phase of construction is approximately 300,000 square feet and will support a daycare for employees, information technology personnel, and human resources.

As a critical function to the support of the tremendous research that occurs within Penn Medicine, an Investigational Drug Study (IDS) Pharmacy will be housed to provide investigational drugs to and through the Penn Medicine Health System. The building will also house a Freezer Farm to promote collaboration among researchers for their samples as well as their data use in large clinical studies that move modern medicine forward.

Due to the tight setting, and the logistical constraints of working within the boundaries of three busy streets in University City, the project took months of preconstruction planning, modeling, prefabrication, and site phasing prior to the start of construction.