Location: 12 Mile & Mound Road - Warren, MI
Prime Contractor: Walbridge
Concrete Contractors: Devon Industrial Group
Concrete Supplier: Hercules Concrete, LLC.
Design Engineer: Smith Group, JR
Geotechnical Engineer: Surveying Solutions, Inc.
QA/QC Consultant: Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc.
Owner: General Motors
GM’s Global Technical Center campus opened in 1956 and was the pinnacle of engineering, design, and advanced technology at the time. It was designed by world-renowned architect Eero Saarinen and landscape architect Thomas Church. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 2014 by the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service. In 2000, the campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1986, the American Institute of Architects honored the Tech Center as the most outstanding architectural project of its era.
GM broke ground on the new design center in mid-2018 but was stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Design Studio, dubbed GM Design West, features an open concept workspace with assigned desks and almost no walls, it will surround the iconic Design Dome Auditorium and viewing patio and connect to the existing Design Center. The advanced new design studio will help speed up the design and development of its battery-electric products, giving the automaker’s design teams some much-needed additional workspace. GM Design West is expected to add roughly 360,000 square feet of additional office and workspace at the GM Warren Tech Center campus and is in the final stage of a multiyear $1 billion investment.
In 2020 Hercules Materials Holdings LLC opened a new concrete batch plant named Titan Concrete LLC located in Centerline, Michigan just 5 miles from the GM Tech Center. This high-tech facility provided upwards of 300 cubic yards per hour utilizing a dual-lane central mix & dry mix batch plant. The plant features some of the newest Terex front discharge concrete mixers in the state to supply the GM Design Center with consistent concrete.
Nearly 15,000 cubic yards of polished 8-inch interior floor slab concrete was placed using a low shrinkage, blended aggregate mix. Some of the polished slabs poured also included a dark gray pigment. The concrete slabs/decks maintained a consistent color & finish throughout the entire structure. Careful attention to detail and strict quality control practices by the entire Team led to a very successful project.
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