Stalco Construction completes $4.2 million transportation facility project

Stalco Construction, Inc. completed the new North Shore Central School District Transportation Facility. Stalco served as general contractor for the $4.2 million vehicle and equipment maintenance depot located at Shore Rd. BBS Architects & Engineers served as architect for the facility. According to Stalco vice president and senior project manager Robert Isbit, "The project encompassed ground-up construction of a 7,500 s/f, one-story building, site work, and all interior finishes." The structure serves as a shop for repairing, maintaining, and washing the district's school buses, other vehicles, and equipment. It features a concrete slab foundation, CMU block and brick bearing walls, pitched wooden roof trusses with asphalt shingles above the office area and a flat EPDM roof over steel roof joists and decking in the maintenance area. Vehicles enter the facility through four entrances with automated overhead garage doors. The site work encompassed a 45,000 s/f surface parking lot, concrete retaining wall, eight-foot-high perimeter chain-link fence with an automated aluminum gate, and concrete sidewalks. The interior houses a fully automated Belanger V-Max large vehicle wash unit, equipped with a 100% water reclamation system, and two hydraulic bus lifts, a 16,000 pound Mohawk TP 16 and a 25,000 pound Mohawk TR 25. The bus wash system includes trench drains embedded in the concrete floor and a holding tank that prevents the wash water from entering the environment. The interiors also include an office, employee lounge, two bathrooms, and a mechanical equipment mezzanine.