Project: Overlook Flats Luxury Apartments, Jersey City, NJ

Location: 32 Oakland Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

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Project Description:
This mixed-use building was designed to maximize upper-level floor-to-floor heights while maintaining structural efficiency and constructability. To minimize the overall floor depth and allow for the addition of an extra building level, the design team selected a Comslab composite metal deck system, providing an optimized balance of strength, stiffness, and reduced structural profile. The building incorporates numerous amenity spaces and a state-of-the-art automated parking garage system, requiring careful coordination of loading, clearances, and vibration performance.

A key structural feature of the project is a three-foot-thick cast-in-place concrete transfer slab, designed to support twelve levels of load-bearing cold-formed metal wall panel construction above. The transfer slab efficiently redistributes vertical loads while accommodating significant changes in column and wall layouts, allowing for architectural flexibility and uninterrupted parking and amenity spaces below. Through close coordination with the architectural and MEP teams, the structural system was fully integrated to deliver a high-performance building that maximizes usable space and long-term functionality.

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Project Details
Address:

32 Oakland Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

Height:

193 ft.

# of Stories:

16

Square Footage:

475,000

Status:

Completed

Owner / Developer:

Urban Property Developers

Architect:

Michels & Waldron Associates, LLC

CIVIL:

Chisvette Engineering

MEP:

KEA Engineers

Geotech:

JZN Engineering

General Contractor:

FM Construction Group

Special Features:

Green Roof Rooftop Amenity Spaces Rooftop Swimming Pool Automated Parking Garage

Service Types:

New Construction Value Engineering Gauge Metal Wall Panels Construction Engineering