Liberty at Laurel Hill

Project Management

The project required extensive offsite public improvements including relocation of existing dry utilities, VDOT road widening and median reconstruction, installation of new entrance traffic signals, relocation of existing intersection traffic signals, and improvements to the adjacent Fairfax County Supervisor’s parking lot. In addition to new onsite infrastructure and residential/commercial pad sites, the project involved construction of amenities including an amphitheater, pavilion, community commons area, and nature trails with pedestrian boardwalks and bridges along an existing lake.

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Field Analysis

The geotechnical investigational report for Laurel Hill revealed a high level of risk for earthwork due to the presence of large quantities of existing fills. SmartSite performed extensive field investigation and analysis utilizing the civil 3D model. The results allowed us to recast the dirt numbers and find locations onsite where material could be reused instead of removed. These methods reduced that earthwork risk to almost zero.

789

Hours of Work

December 2015

Broke Ground

165

Apartments

Reduced In Early Risk Reduction

Project Delivery

The development agreement structure for Laurel Hill essentially required the partners to start on the same day, and finish on the same day – a difficult scenario for a project of this complexity. SmartSite created an early project timeline and interim civil 3D model that detailed the necessary conditions to achieve project completion. This model allowed the team to take the worst possible operational and delivery nightmare and turn it into the best completion result – on-time and under-budget.

History

In 1916, Theodore Roosevelt commissioned a medium-security prison for convicts from Washington, D.C. to be constructed in Lorton, Virginia. In 2001, the Lorton Reformatory shut down. Rather than tear the historic structure down, there have been efforts to redevelop the property for a mixed-use community with a groundbreaking in December 2015. Just recently, the community, known as Liberty Crest Apartments, has opened its doors to new residents.