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Korte & Luitjohan Office & Shop
 General
Contractor
Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, Inc.
12052 Highland Road, Highland, IL 62249
www.korteluitjohan.com
Architect
Durrant Group, Inc
1066 Executive Parkway, #100, St. Louis, MO 63141
www.durrant.com
General Description
Location: Highland, Illinois
Date Bid: June 2006
Construction Period: June 2006 to Sep 2007
Total Square Feet: 26,000 Site: 10 acres.
Number of Buildings: Two.
Building Size: Warehouse, 16,000; basement, 1,000; first floor,
9,000; total, 26,000 square feet.
Building Height: Warehouse, 22’; basement, 10’; first floor, 20’;
total, 20’.
Basic Construction Type: New.
Foundation: Cast-in-place, pier & grade beam, reinforced
concrete, slab-on-grade, insulated concrete forms (ICF).
Exterior Walls: Brick, ICF. Roof: Membrane, EPDM.
Floors: Concrete. Interior Walls: Metal stud drywall.
Construction Team
Structural Engineer: Netemeyer & Associates - 3300 Highline Road,
Aviston, IL 62216
Mechanical Engineer: Toennies Service - 219 E. Main Street,
Damiensville, IL 62215
Electrical Engineer: DRDA Electric Company - 24 Kettle River
Drive, Glen Carbon, IL 62034
The new headquarters for Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, Inc. includes
9,000 square feet of office space and a separate 16,000-square-foot
warehouse maintenance building that serves a multitude of uses. The
entire complex is located on 10 acres in Highland, Illinois.
The office facility has a total of 13 private offices for the President,
General Manager, Project Managers and Estimators, with adjoining open
layout for assistant project management and accounting departments. The
office facility also includes a conference room which comfortably seats
12 people, a plan room for subcontractors and suppliers to review plans
to prepare pricing, a fully functioning kitchen and break room including
Energy Star rated appliances, and a training room that accommodates
approximately 50 people. This space also includes a 1,000-square-foot
basement which houses the facility's geo-thermal pump units, air
handlers, and miscellaneous storage. Airlocks control exterior air flow.
Heating and cooling for the office building is divided into seven zones
and controlled by programmable thermostats.
The warehouse maintenance building includes an office for the shop
foreman, a break room for the service personnel, storage of equipment
parts, small construction equipment and tools, service garage for heavy
equipment and company vehicles, a wash bay, and storage area for
materials for construction projects.
Both buildings were built with "Green" building practices and materials
in mind. The exterior of both buildings, including the perimeter
basement walls were constructed utilizing Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF).
The ICF walls of the buildings have an R-value over 25. The roof decks
are constructed of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) instead of plywood,
covered by a white, Thermoplastic Polyolefin (TPO) single-ply membrane
to reflect solar heat, and have an R-value of 30. The buildings contain
recycled components including carpeting, shelving, ceiling tile, steel
joists and studs, roof decking, doors and door frames, OSB wall
sheathing, ICF wall forms, ISO roof insulation, TPO roof membrane.
Recycled concrete backfill and subgrade were used as site materials.
Energy efficient "T5" fluorescent lighting illuminates 99.9% of the
buildings, and while the office utilizes motion detectors to switch off
many of the lights when not needed, the shop utilizes 21 skylights to
reduce the need for light during the day.
All windows have Low "E" glass with encapsulated blinds. Plus most
feature an operable lower unit to allow fresh air and reduce HVAC demand
during the fall and spring seasons.
The warehouse is heated with radiant heat in the floors produced by a
99% clean burn waste oil boiler. The company is able to reuse the waste
oil generated by its heavy equipment and trucks over the course of a
year to heat the warehouse. The remainder of the company's waste oil is
sold to a recycler.
Storm water is collected in an excess capacity detention pond for use in
washing equipment coming in for maintenance or repair, and for filling
water trucks and trailers for construction site needs.
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