{"id":5867,"date":"2015-10-16T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/taiwan\/?post_type=project&#038;p=5867"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:54:13","slug":"george-washington-university-museum-textile-museum","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/projects\/george-washington-university-museum-textile-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC, welcomes the George Washington University\u2019s new 46,000-square-foot museum, which is a unique collaboration between the university and the 90-year-old Textile Museum. Containing its 19,000-piece collection, it is located between the historic Corcoran Hall and Woodhull House.<\/p>\n<p>AECOM Tishman served as construction manager for this renovation project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Logistical Challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Located on an incredibly small urban footprint, which presented several staging and logistical challenges, we\u00a0performed several excavation techniques such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solider piles<\/li>\n<li>Lagging and tie-backs<\/li>\n<li>25-foot-deep hand-dug underpinning<\/li>\n<li>Secant wall along the adjacent shallow foundations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Completion in Phases:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Phase One:<\/em> Preconstruction work was done inside Corcoran and Bell Halls to relocate laboratories and research facilities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phase Two:<\/em>\u00a0We were able to begin work on Corcoran Hall, which consisted of building a new mechanical tower, razing the existing tower, and building the new stair power.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phase Three:<\/em> Construction of the new museum began.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unique Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With two levels being underground and four aboveground, the new museum includes features such as a monumental staircase, a learning center, program room, the Arthur D. Jenkins Library for Textile Arts, and staff offices and exhibition preparation areas.<\/p>\n<p>The museum also features a sky bridge that connects to the adjacent historic Woodhull House, which is home to the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection \u2014 a collection of hundreds of rare papers, maps, drawings, and other artifacts chronicling the history of Washington, DC.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5869,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-5867","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}