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TRAMMELL CROW CO. – WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. HEADQUARTERS

Trammell Crow implemented a team approach to complete the new
headquarters for Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Above All Aerial Photography.

Trammell’s Team Approach
The new Class A headquarters for Westinghouse Electric Corp. will bring 3,700 new jobs to Cranberry
Township, Pa. The project will aim for LEED certification, and is in an up-and-coming area.

By Libby John amount of work and coordination with utilities and the

I n May 2010, Trammell Crow Co. will complete the

Class A corporate headquarters for the nuclear engi-
neering division of the Westinghouse Electric Corp.
in the growing area of Cranberry Township, Pa. James
Murray-Coleman, senior vice president of Trammell
Crow, says the 83-acre site will hold the main 424,000-
square-foot building and have a 200,000-square-foot
office building on each side.
“It’s a fantastic campus and has excellent access from
roadways,” Murray-Coleman says of the $200 million proj-
ect. “The Pennsylvania turnpike is just a few miles away.”
The main building will be occupied by
Trammell Crow Co. –
Westinghouse Electric Corp. June 2009, and the two side buildings will
headquarters be completed in 2010.
www.trammellcrow.com Site work was the main challenge the
Project cost: $200 million
Location: Cranberry Township, company encountered on the project,
Pa. Murray-Coleman notes. “The tricky part
Scope: Class A headquarters was actually developing and bringing to
James Murray-Coleman: “It’s a
fantastic campus and has excel- life all of the site work that surrounds all
lent access from roadways.” three buildings – it was just a massive
regulatory bodies,” he says. “There was a fair amount of
coordination with the local municipality, Cranberry
Township, as well. All of the site work design had to be
permitted and approved at one time.”
The main scope of the site work involved excavating 1.2
million cubic yards of dirt to prepare the site for construc-
tion for all three buildings and the 3,200-space parking lot,
Murray-Coleman says. Trumbull Corp., a division of P.J.
Dick Corp., completed the excavation in a little more than
eight months.
Trammell selected the company for this project because
“of their approach to the project, the quantity and type of
equipment they had available and that equipment’s avail-
ability based on the other projects they had in the region,”
Murray-Coleman explains.
“Moving that dirt in such a short time narrowed the num-
ber of contractors we bid to,” he says. “We had to very quick-
ly look at the marketplace and come to understand who can
competently perform the work. We had to have everyone on
the same page” to get the project completed on time.

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