priority lexus
Commercial Service Building
Minutes from Virginia Beach’s downtown area, Priority Automotive LLC’s Virginia Beach Priority Lexus Dealership partnered with us and architects The Design Collaborative, on renovating an abandoned business location into a commercial service building with 8 – 12 above ground lifts in the back, training room, toilets and a parts storage room in the front for their Lexus clientele.
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Owner: Priority Automotive
Type: Renovation
Budget: $000,000
Priority Lexus Virginia Beach Commercial Service Building
Project Info Continued ….
The existing building was a Pre-engineered Metal Building from years ago and had a repair space in the back for bakery trucks. The building was not cooled and barely heated in the service area, so all new electrical and mechanical was needed to bring it up to Priority’s shop standards and to meet code.
For the plumbing, scoping determined that the existing piping was in too poor condition to reuse. Our consensus was to abandon existing under-slab piping and provide new. This required providing a new backflow preventer which was located exterior to building and included a hotbox. The design included a new tankless gas-fired water heater in the Janitor/Storage closet. Priority preferred Toto urinals and no-touch plumbing fixtures.
Mechanical design provided (2) dedicated outdoor air systems creating 50% redundancy if a unit were to go down. A new natural gas meter was provided and installed by Virginia Natural Gas (VNG). Priority expressed desire to not use supplementary heating (ie. Unit heaters and infrared heaters) for this project so all heating was provided by the HVAC units. Shore Equipment provided the new exhaust capture system and oil pumps.
The effort electrically provided site lighting around the building as well as durable and maintenance friendly interior service bay lighting. The project also included all new interior LED lighting throughout the building. This was all complimentary to a complete new secondary electrical service. Priority Automotive did not ask for security cameras or access control. No EV charging stations were put in the Service Building and there were no plans for future EV charging stations nor additional service bays in the future.
