Martin Bostetter Courthouse

The Martin Bostetter Courthouse is a historic building located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. The project presented many challenges from design to completion. The project was completed one-hundred percent during the night hours. This alone made it difficult to manage but location was key. Harris had seven tractor trailers loaded with equipment parked in an area that was barely large enough for a passenger vehicle to pass. Noise was also an issue during the night hours.

Other milestones were getting steam, oil and HW lines through multiple stories in a historic building with terracotta honeycomb above plaster ceilings. All the AHU’s were located in the attic space. All supporting members were wood, so hanger design was critical for weight bearing.

Harris provided an alternate plan to be minimally invasive to the occupied space in the course of installing the distribution piping and negating a few possible issues. In the end, the project was an absolute success due to careful planning and creative solutions by the Harris team.