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When Belmont
Country Club decided to enhance their clubhouse facilities, the
spring holiday season was fast approaching. The June 1st
grand opening of the recently upgraded golf course required that
work on the facilities take place concurrent with long-standing
traditional club functions like Mother’s Day brunch. It took a
courteous and collaborative team to adapt and respond to the
function schedule without disrupting member activities. Commodore
Builders was there for this fast-track, event-filled season of
construction.
Work was
primarily performed on the bones of the building, including
structural repairs and upgrade finishes. The main entry-way and
kitchen required technical enhancements and finish replacements to
blend with existing materials. Commodore worked side-by-side with
engineers to design and reduce the cost of structural repairs, while
delivering on the design intent. Work hours were limited by members
activities. Temporary partitions were installed to allow members
access to the only public entrance. Enhancements in the kitchen were
performed with hospital-style dust barriers in place to keep every
morsel of construction away from food preparation.
Unanticipated
structural issues, common in older buildings, were found and major
renovations to the front entrance lobby and elevator were required.
Structure elements surrounding the elevator were repaired and
replaced with identically matched materials. The elevator shaft was
repaired block-by-block without disrupting day-to-day operations.
The Commodore team worked on one-half of the foyer and two-story
staircase, demolishing, installing drywall, millwork, marble
patching and new carpet, while the other half remained open for
member access. Work was carefully planned and conditions kept
immaculate because only a temporary partition separated club members
from the construction team.
The walls of
the main mechanical room were reinforced, complicated by limited
access and no staging area. The team removed, dismantled and
refurbished an existing crystal chandelier. Stone and marble were
identically matched and replaced. Carpets were installed to
seamlessly blend with the look of the existing area. Millwork was
removed and replaced without a telltale trace of construction.
Repairs to the
kitchen were made while it remained fully operational. While the
chef was fashioning radish flowers behind the partition on one side
of the kitchen, the Commodore team was reinforcing structural beams
just three feet away on the other side. Mother’s Day festivities
went off without a hitch.
At the
conclusion of the project, Chef Steve presented the Commodore team
with a grand finish of his own. To celebrate the construction
collaboration, the team, with work boots and all, was invited to
enjoy a banquet table complete with all the trimmings of a grand
feast. As a gesture of gratitude for a minimally disruptive and easy
process, Chef Steve and his staff provided the dusty Commodore team
with a feast fit for carpenters and kings. |
