Address: Kernersville, NC
Owner: N.C. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Architect: LS3P Associates, LTD.
Size: 110,000 sf
Cost: $29M
Project Responsibility: Structural Engineering Design; Structural Construction Administration Services
Project Delivery: Construction Manager at Risk
Completed: 2021
Located adjacent to the existing Veterans Administration (VA) hospital complex, the new one-story, 120-bed state veterans home is the 5th world-class nursing home facility built in North Carolina. The new senior living/skilled nursing facility features private rooms, common living areas, activity and conference rooms, a private chapel, and a large meeting space. The facility also offers a memory care unit for residents with dementia. The cold-form framed building layout consists of two adjacent rectangular structures with a connector building. Design includes a structural frame system utilizing conventional construction techniques with repetitive spans and component sizes, a concrete slab-on-grade floor system with conventional shallow foundation and continuous strip foundations, load bearing metal stud framing, and cold-formed steel roof trusses.
