Project By: ZGA Architects & Planners
Lot Size: 52 acres
Project Size: 400,000 sq. ft.
Location: Nampa, ID
Design Team
Axiom, PLLC / Structural Engineer
Musgrove Engineering / Mechanical Engineer
DC Engineering / Electrical Engineer
Keller Associates / Civil Engineer
Collaborators
Autovol Volumetric Modular / Project Owner
Engineered Structures, Inc. / Project Contractor
Autovol Volumetric Modular spearheaded a new manufacturing facility valued at $45 million and located in Nampa, Idaho, which occupies 52 acres. This groundbreaking industrial project introduces North America’s first fully automated production line for constructing affordable housing units.
This highly automated production line constructs modular units for affordable housing. An in-slab rail system maneuvers large, heavy units through the facility while they are being built, with four bridge cranes and three mezzanines to allow construction activities from above. The building is concrete slab-on-grade with steel frame and steel bar joists roof framing. The manufacturing portion of the building is 387,667 gross square feet with a volume of approximately 15,506,700 cubic feet. The remainder of the building is a two-story office space comprising an area of approximately 39,000 square feet, including an open stair from the lobby to the second floor.
The exterior walls of the manufacturing area are clad in approximately 98,000 square feet of “Charcoal Gray” purlin bearing rib (PBR) metal panels by MBCI. Gutters and downspouts are galvanized metal with a three-coat fluoropolymer finish in color to match the siding. The cladding of the office portion of the building is an ash gray exterior insulation and finish system, accented with approximately 570 square feet of PBR metal panels and 175 square feet of Alpolic composite wall panels in the “HYB Blue” color. The windows and doors in the office area are clear anodized aluminum storefront assemblies. The metal sunshade over a second-floor deck has a red fascia to match the red in Autovol’s logo. Insulated metal doors and their frames at the manufacturing portion of the building are field-painted to match the “HYB Blue” color.
The office area contains an open steel stair between floors with stainless steel wire rope guardrail infill. In addition to offices and core functions such as restrooms, this portion of the building includes conference rooms, an open collaboration area, open office areas, a large open studio, two break rooms (one with a kitchen), an outdoor patio and two outdoor decks on the second floor. Also from the second floor, there is direct access to an observation mezzanine in the manufacturing portion of the building.
