Gamco Corp., one of New York’s leading fenestration and architectural metal fabricators, supplied the recently opened commercial development at 251-73 Jericho Turnpike, Queens, New York. Located on the Queens-Nassau County border, the 84,000-square-foot 4-story building features ground floor retail and three upper floors of office space. Gamco supplied over 10,000 square feet of curtain wall material as well as the storefront, entrance doors, and windows to complete the building envelope.
Gamco was selected for the project by developer AB Capstone Builders Corporation, which also served as the general contractor for the construction project. “AB Capstone sought a fenestration company that could supply a broad range of products to achieve the architectural design envisioned,” says Davidson Chen, Gamco project manager. “By bringing Gamco on board early in the process, we were able to collaborate with the design-build team to integrate value engineering by specifying the best storefront, curtain wall, windows, and doors for the new property.
The extensive use of curtain wall on the new building’s south and east façades is prominent, with a curved corner most notable. For the project Gamco supplied a custom fabricated curtain wall system that is an outside glazed, shear block, stick built system with concealed fasteners. The system’s aluminum framing features 2-½-inch sightlines, 6-inch mullion depth, and a 1-inch insulated glass unit glazing pocket.
To create the building’s dramatic curved glass corners, Gamco employed a trio of splayed mullions―152°, 152°, and 166°―to complete the façade’s radius. Matching pressure plates and covers were used to complete the installation.
For the ground floor retail spaces along Jericho Turnpike, Gamco supplied CW-250 curtain wall framing with 2-½-inch sightlines and 6-inch mullion depth along with FG 451 medium stile D-Series aluminum frame glass doors for the retail storefront entrances. Both the Gamco CW-250 and FG 451 doors accept 1-inch IGUs. All the curtain wall, storefront, and doors systems were glazed with 1-inch Argon filled dual-pane IGUs using tempered Vitro Solarban 60 glass.
For the building’s rear façade, Gamco supplied 62 combination windows of a fixed window over an operable project-out awning. Both window models were from Gamco’s 2-½-inch frame depth thermally broken W250 HC aluminum heavy-commercial window series. Similar to the curtain wall façade, the AW60 rated windows feature tempered dual-pane 1-inch insulated units using Vitro glass with Solarban 60 low-emissivity coating and Argon gas filling.
All the new building’s aluminum curtain wall, storefront, entrance door, and window framing member surfaces received a dark bronze anodized finish.
The new Jericho Turnpike building owner is AB Capstone Builders Corporation of Jackson Heights, NY, who purchased the lot several years ago for development, and acted as the project’s general contractor. Dal H. Chun Engineers of New York, New York, provided architectural services, and Lawrence Glass of Brooklyn, New York, was the project’s contract glazier. Occupants of the new building include Northwell Health Military Liaison Services and Tiger Schulmann’s Martial Arts.
