Since last we checked in Clark construction (of Phase 2 Silver Line Construction fame) has been quite busy at Ovation Apartments. The project has risen several stories since the last post on Ovation. Beyond the near completion of the structural skeleton Clark has also begun installing some of the facade and window elements on lower levels, as well as beginning construction of their unique water feature and pool.
The genesis of the water feature was more circumstance, extremely steep grades along the south boundary line, than by design; though lesser concepts would have put up a cheap retaining wall, assuring a less desirable end product. The south water feature and pool will take the detrimental existing conditions and turn them into an asset for the property.
The project is also Tysons first LEED Gold residential building. To those who have never had the “pleasure” of performing a sustainability study; to attain LEED Gold on an office building is difficult (it takes a lot of extra cost and buy in from a contractor) but doing so for a residential component is a whole other monster which involves good foresight in future management and operations of the building. Everything from proper metering, behavioral anticipation and feedback data recovery on energy and water usage, unique air conditioning systems like chilled beams or mag-lev chillers, all of which take management who are cognoscente of the long term pay back of sustainable design (when appropriate).