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ARCHITECT OF RECORD// Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects PC, Wilmington, Del., www.bernardon.com


RESTORATION ARCHITECT//Frens and Frens Restoration Architects, West Chester, Pa., www.frensandfrens.com


STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS// MacIntosh Engineering, Wilmington, www.macintosheng.com


CONSTRUCTION MANAGER// Michael Baker Jr. Inc., Hamilton, N.J., www.mbakercorp.com


GENERAL CONTRACTOR//Shoemaker Construction Co., Conshohocken, Pa., www.shoemakerco.com


WATERPROOFING CONSULTANT// TBS Services, Haddon Heights, N.J., www.tbsservices.com


LIGHTING DESIGNER//Architectural Lighting Design LLC, Ambler, Pa., archltg.com


After Bernardon Haber Holloway Archi-


tects was selected as architect of record, it began putting together the entire team for the project. Integral to the team was Frens and Frens Restoration Architects, West Ches- ter, Pa., a firm Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects relies on for its historic technical expertise. “They are instrumental in help- ing us figure out the details, like what kinds of plaster, masonry and terracotta to use to maintain historic integrity,” Holloway notes. Project design took place in 2006, but


then the documents were shelved for 18 months. “Amtrak’s funding is uncertain, and they just didn’t have the dollars when they thought they were going to have them,” Holloway recalls. “Then the stimulus money came out, and Amtrak realized the project very readily met the stimulus criteria. Re- member the phrase ‘shovel ready’? At the time the stimulus money became available, Wilmington station was shovel ready.” The station received $20 million from the


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; $12 million from Delaware’s Department of Transportation; and $5.7 million from Am- trak, $2 million of which was added to the


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budget to address issues outside the proj- ect’s original scope, such as state-of-the- art dynamic signage and a public-address system to meet new requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Many times when you work with a major entity, like Am- trak, they’re just going to work with the bud- get and defer other issues,” Holloway notes. “They really did try to fix as many things as they could while the station was down.” As Holloway alludes, a major part of the


budget was dedicated to construction of a temporary train station parallel to the ex- isting building. The temporary station oper- ated for three years during the renovation/ restoration.


The Restoration Wilmington Station was placed on the Na-


tional Register of Historic Places in 1976, so the team was bound by the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. “We did follow these guidelines very strictly for places where we had original fabric, which is the entire exterior envelope of the build- ing, the historic waiting rooms and various stairways,” Holloway says. “We regularly


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