Masonry Magazine August 1966 Page. 12
Masonry Reaches For The Denver Sky
Project: Park Mayfair East Complex
Architects: Anderson & Looms, AIA
Engineers: Sallada & Hanson
General Contractors: Harold Simpson
Mason Contractor: Dan Berich, MCAA Member
Concrete Units: Prestressed Concrete of Colorado
Using the Contemporary Bearing Wall Concept, Park Mayfair East Apartments soars 165 feet into Denver's blue skies. The 17-story structure utilizes reinforced brick bearing-wall and pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete double-tees to provide a structural system that is economical, easily and speedily put in place, yet one that has low maintenance.
Mason Contractor Dan Berich used modern and efficient methods so that a complete floor was completed every seven days. Using packaged masonry materials, two hoists and pipe scaffolding, Berich constructed the buildings as though it were a series of one-story structures stacked one atop the other.
The three interior bearing walls extend across the building (see floor plan) with the only break occuring at the corridors. The service areas are also of bearing-wall construction. Eight foot wide tees, with a maximum length of 37 ft., 4 in., span between the bearing walls. Only the legs of the tees bear on the wall, and a typical bearing distance is 4 in. The walls are constructed of two wythes of brick with a 3-3/4 in. cavity. Reinforcing rods and grout then complete the wall compenents. Berich's bricklayers would lay the inside wythe of the exterior wall and both wythes of the interior walls to the soffit line of the tees. Then with compressed air the cavity was cleaned out before the
Park Mayfair East is part of Denver's only high-rise complex. This photograph of the architect's model shows that eventually the 17-story structure will be flanked by two eight-story buildings which will also use the bearing-wall concept. The larger structure contains a total of 130 apartments and of the eight on each floor, six will have views of the mountains.
MASONRY
August, 1966