Colorado Springs, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/19/2014 -- Oldcastle Modular has announced today that it has started fabrication of the fully out-fitted bathroom pods for New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) new housing facilities at Prospect Plaza in the Oceanhill-Brownsville community of Brooklyn.

Blue Sea Development Company awarded Oldcastle Modular the Phase 1 contract to fabricate 117 fully-outfitted and functional bathroom pods for NYCHA's $140 million Prospect Plaza redevelopment plan. Prospect Plaza South (Phase I) will be a combination of four story walk up, townhouse-style buildings and a five-and-a-half story elevator building. There will be a total of 148 units; 42 NYCHA public housing units and 106 low-income affordable housing units.

NYCHA's Prospect Plaza redevelopment plan contains three phases of construction-- construction of new housing facilities, open space, community facilities, and retail space--to replace the remaining vacant Prospect Plaza towers. The NYCHA and NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development selected Blue Sea Development Company, Pennrose Properties, Duvernay + Brooks, and Rosenberg Housing Group (Blue Sea & Partners), as the development team to revitalize NYCHA's Prospect Plaza.

"Oldcastle Precast has been a reliable partner supplying high quality products to Blue Sea Development for many years", said Les Bluestone, co-owner of Blue Sea Development. "We look forward to working with the Modular division on Phase 1 of the project."

Oldcastle Modular, certificated as an off-site fabricator by the New York City Department of Buildings, Office of Technical Certification, and Research (OTCR), is manufacturing the modular bathroom pods at their Orlando, Florida factory. The modular bathrooms are anticipated to be delivered and installed by Oldcastle Modular starting mid December 2014.

Oldcastle Modular' s sister company Oldcastle Precast Building Systems –Albany, NY is supplying and erecting the building structure using their precast concrete wall and plank building system manufactured in Albany, NY. The combination of Eggrock bathrooms and precast building structure ensures that the client has the ease of one stop shopping as well as rapid erection and completion of the building.

Bill Seery, Director of Business Development with Oldcastle Modular stated "this is the first combined project in the United States utilizing the Eggrock bathroom pods and the Oldcastle Precast building structure. The benefits of using these modular technologies together include an accelerated construction schedule and a safer job site, as well as providing a superior quality product."

The three phase Prospect Plaza project will transform a 4.5-acre scattered site into 364-housing units, including 80 units of NYCHA public housing and 284 affordable housing apartments, and supporting amenities. Phase II, Prospect Plaza North, will have 111 units in a combination of townhouse-style walk-ups and taller elevator buildings. The final phase, the Saratoga Site, will be a four-and-a-half story elevator building organized around a central courtyard with 105 units. Prospect Plaza will also include a new supermarket, community facility, a rooftop greenhouse, and a recreation area.

Prospect Plaza Phase 1 is pursuing Energy Star, LEED, and National Green Building Standard certifications.

About Oldcastle Precast
Oldcastle Precast is the clear choice for building products and services for North American Infrastructure projects. The company is a leading provider of engineered product solutions nationwide to a number of market sectors including:

Building Structures – Communications – Government/Military
Power & Energy - Security - Transportation – Water
Construction Services – Engineering Support – LEED/Green Consulting

Learn more about Oldcastle's Eggrock Bathroom Pods at http://www.oldcastlemodular.com

Contact:
Oldcastle Precast
National Marketing
888-965-3227
Barbara.bogo@oldcastle.com
http://www.oldcastlemodular.com

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Colorado Springs, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/14/2014 -- Oldcastle delivered 175 prefabricated bathroom pods for the newly renovated 5-Star Broadmoor West resort hotel in Colorado Springs, CO, helping GE Johnson Construction complete the hotel project within a tight time schedule.

GE Johnson Construction performed the $ 57 million project at the historic Broadmoor Hotel. The project involved a full "gut" renovation down to slab and rebuild of the entire stand-alone hotel. They also added 31 rooms to the building. The 26 week schedule was extremely aggressive, but GE Johnson hit it with help from Oldcastle Modular's prefabricated bathrooms, which were a critical part of their strategy.

Oldcastle worked closely with GE Johnson Construction throughout the planning, design, manufacture, and installation of the bathroom pods. The custom-built, prefabricated luxury bathrooms were extremely high end, five-fixture bathrooms which included double sinks, a stand-alone soaking tub, separate marble walled shower stall and a private toilet closet, in addition to a marble tiled floor.

The prefabricated bathroom pods, manufactured and outfitted at their Madera, CA plant, were shipped to the site and slid into the structure from the side, prior to erection of the facade. The ability of Oldcastle Modular bathroom pods to accelerate the project schedule was just one of the reasons GE Johnson included them in their integrated approach. Additionally, a hotel of this caliber demands a high level of finish. The factory controlled environment, where Oldcastle fabricates the bathroom pods, facilitates automation, precision, and strict quality control. The manufacturing environment of the factory allows Oldcastle Modular to deliver a superior finished product.

General contractor GE Johnson Construction, Colorado Springs and Denver, completed the vertical expansion and complete reconstruction two days ahead of schedule, more than 200,000 sq. ft. of ultra-high end construction in less than six months.

As stated by GE Johnson Construction:
Steve Bartolin, President and CEO of the Broadmoor, praised every member of the project team for this one-of-a-kind undertaking. Bartolin said, "A project like this doesn't get done to this level of quality without a lot of talent and expertise. That's what we saw here."

Oldcastle is proud to have been a part of the team assembled for the renovation of the Broadmoor West hotel. The Broadmoor reopened on May 16, 2014 after a six-month renovation. Continuously completing projects which are new builds, this was Oldcastle Modular's first contract for a hotel renovation project.

About the Broadmoor West
The Broadmoor West project is part of a $120 million investment by the Denver-based Anschutz Corp., which bought The Broadmoor in 2011. That investment includes the addition of three wilderness retreats on sites away from the hotel, a new fly fishing school on the main hotel property, a new entertainment center already completed at Broadmoor West and improvements to the Golden Bee and Tavern restaurants.

About GE Johnson Construction
GE Johnson is an employee-owned commercial construction corporation offering a full range of planning, modeling, and construction, renovation, and maintenance services.

About Oldcastle Precast
Oldcastle Precast is the clear choice for building products and services for North American Infrastructure projects. The company is a leading provider of engineered product solutions nationwide to a number of market sectors including:

Building Structures – Communications – Government/Military
Power & Energy - Security - Transportation – Water
Construction Services – Engineering Support – LEED/Green Consulting

Contact:
Oldcastle Precast
National Sales, Marketing, and Engineering
Barbara Bogo
Marketing Program Manager
215.257.2255
Barbara.bogo@oldcastle.com

http://www.oldcastlemodular.com/

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