Converge West Falls
Client
Rushmark
Category
Mixed-Use Residential
Location
Falls Church, Va.
Size
438-unit, 550,000 sf, 13 stories
Architect
Gensler
Contractor
HITT Contracting Inc.
Project Timeline
January 2025 – February 2027
Converge West Falls will be a 438-unit, 550,000-sf, 13-story apartment building, including 18,000 sf of ground floor retail and below-grade parking. Tenant amenities will include a clubroom, a reservable private dining area, a variety of work-from-home spaces, a fitness center, an indoor children’s play area, a music room, a pet spa, and secure rooms for bicycle storage. Accessible from the clubroom and fitness center is a 35,000-sf landscaped courtyard for the exclusive use of tenants and their guests, featuring a variety of outdoor seating areas, an interactive water fountain, outdoor kitchens and grills, a swimming pool and bathhouse, and plats for tenant urban gardens. The secure residential parking garage will include 28 electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations.
Using HyperWall™ panels will reduce the construction time required to close the building by 33%, with significantly less on-site labor and equipment. Factory-installed windows will eliminate the need for the glazing trade to be present on-site. The panel system will also reduce the building’s embodied carbon by at least an estimated 50% compared to architectural precast concrete.
Building Composites will provide 1,030 HyperWall panels, building information modeling (BIM) and connection designs. Factory-installed glazing will be incorporated into the panels in partnership with Service Glass.
Key engineering highlights
- 80 different tooling shapes
- More than 300 unique SKUs
- 4 colors
- 7 connection designs
- Preinstalled balconies
- Factory-installed electrical junction boxes
- Many of the panels are multi-depth (8 in. / 5 in.)
- Very high sound dampening: STC reduction of 60 with an OITC reduction of 47
- R-values of 13.9 for the 5 in. panel and 22 for the 8 in. panel
- The HyperWall system connection design to the slab increased rentable space by 25,000 square feet
- Bolted connection design facilitates the installation of 16 panels per day, compared to 8–10 for other formats
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