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Building Statistics

Hakuna Resort

General Building Data

Building name:	Hakuna Resort
Location:	Swiftwater, PA
Site:	Hakuna Resort - Hotel
Function type:	Residential (R-1)
Size:	395,938 SF
Number of stories above grade:	8
Date of construction:	March 2014 - Summer 2015
Cost:	(to be updated)
Project delivery method:	Design Bid Build

Project Team

Owner:	LMN Development, LLC
Architect:	Architectural Design Consultants
General Contractor:	Kraemer Brothers, LLC
MEP/Structural:	Harwood Engineering Consultants
Civil:	Pennoni Associates, INC.

Image 1. Project Floor Layout

Architecture

Hakuna Resort at Monroe County is a third building entitled Hakuna after the other two buildings located at Watertown, WI and Mansfield, OH. Current plan of the building consists of three major components; indoor waterpark, hotel and conference space.

The main and most iconic feature of this project is the waterpark, having huge footprint of 143,798 SF with extensive ceiling height to fit all waterpark features. The hotel has typical, repetitive and uniform room layouts throughout each floor that has about 45,000 SF. The conference space, the smallest component of all, has one story with 92,668 SF. Furthermore, the waterpark and conference components are located left and right of the hotel, connected by expansion joints.

Due to the size of the project and the presence of expansion joints, the three components were looked at as separate buildings and this project will be based only on the hotel part of the project.

(Image 2. Rendering of Hotel Building - Courtecy of LMN Development LLC)

Building Enclosure

The main theme of the resort is jungle. Therefore, the exterior façade of the hotel is very colorful to attract younger audiences. These materials include: country ledgestone, dressed fieldstone, and exterior insulated finish system. The color varies including different shades of brown, green, red and blue.

The hotel component is shaped like a long and narrow rectangle, and is oriented about 45 degrees. This allows the longer faces of the building to be exposed to north-east direction and south-west direction. On south-west side of façade includes balcony and a window for each room. On the north-east side is another set of hotel rooms that is adjacent to the façade and set of windows without balconies. There are approximately 78 rooms on each floor, which indicates a lot of glazing on each sides of the building.

The roof system for hotel portion of the Hakuna Resort is a flat roof with spray foam insulation on top of presressed hollow core planks and parapet. Some parapets are extension of masonry walls to cover the vent that is exposed through the roof.

Image 3. Typical Parapet Section

Major National Model Codes

• IBC 2009 - International Building Code 2009
• ACI 318-08 - Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete
• ACI 530-08 - Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry Structures
• AISC 360-05 – Specifications for Structural Steel Buildings (Steel Construction Manual 13th Edition)
• ASCE 7-05 - Minimum Design Loads for buildings and Other Structures
• PCI MNL 120-04 - PCI Design Handbook, Precast and Prestressed Concrete 6th Edition

Zoning

• Occupancy Classification: R-1
• Construction Type: I-B / II-A

Structural
The main structural system used in this building is masonry shear walls and precast planks. There are also concrete piers, spread and strip footings, walls and masonry walls in the foundation and steel framing system in areas that require more flexible open spaces. The roof system is also precast hollow core planks.
There are two different thickness of precast planks. As shown in figure 8, there is 10” and 12” thick precast planks. 10” thick planks are mostly used almost throughout the building typically spanning 28’, except the corner with bigger suite which required longer span of 40’ in one side where balconies are. The balcony is also precast but solid plank that is 1’-½” thick which is supported by 1’ x 1’ precast columns at each exterior corner.
The main lateral force resisting system for Hakuna Resort consists of fully grouted 12” thick masonry walls. These masonry blocks are structured to have masonry piers at each ends and sometimes in the middle as well to eliminate usage of columns. The masonry pier schedule can be found in figure 10. The blocks have F’m of 2000 psi which requires a net area compressive strength of 2800 psi and grouted with 3000 psi grout.

Mechanical
The AHU operate with a Variable Air Volume System that has hook ups in the primary spaces, allowing the end user to monitor each space. A building automation system is provided to monitor various mechanical points throughout the building.

Lighting
Throughout the building there are different types of spaces, having different lighting needs; public service spaces, private hotel rooms, and lobby area. The public service lighting with occupancy sensors is a florescent lighting system Compact florescent down lights and line voltage halogen continuous run wall graze luminaries to provide uniform grazing on the vertical surface in the corridor.

Electrical
The primary feed is 208Y/120V system for general use and 480Y/277 for lighting. Uninterruptible Power Supply systems are located on various floors. Emergency power systems were designed for the building to provides unit erupted power

Construction
The site is located on fill, for the foundation to meet proper bearing capacity, Geopiers under the footers were used where the soil did not meet 95% compaction.

Fire protection
The Building is equipped with a typical automatic wet sprinkler system. 2 hour fire ratings are provided for all exterior walls and exit stairways. The structural system must meet a 2 hour fire rating.

Transportation
There are 2 elevator banks that house a total of thirteen elevators.

Note

While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in‐progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Young Jeon. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was
flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.

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