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116624 & 17000 Crabs Branch Way Rockville, MD 20855
Construction Progress Bulletin
May 2013:
Pictured is the green roof on Building 1 with a plaza area and lounge tables for users to use.
Pictured is the east side of Building 1’s truck dock below the sky bridge leading to the parking garage. Crews are performing final detail installations on the metal panel façade.
Equipment and Maintenance Operations Center - EMOC Project Portfolio
Presentation to Town of Washington Grove on 8/1/11
News Release - Leggett Celebrates Groundbreaking for County’s EMOC; First “Smart Growth Initiative” Construction Project
Equipment Maintenance and Operation Center (EMOC) – No. 500933
Design Start 5/1/2009
Construction Start 5/18/2011
Ground Breaking For Construction Start 7/19/2011
The New Equipment Maintenance Operations Center (EMOC) and Crabbs Branch Day Labor Center are being relocated to 2 parcels of land known as Casey 6, Casey 7 and portion of Robert’s Oxygen property, all located north of Shady Grove Road and west of Crabbs Branch Way extended. These properties are bounded by I-370, Shady Grove Road and Crabbs Branch Way, and are zoned I-3. The existing Equipment Maintenance Operations Center includes County Fleet Management, Transit Services, and Highway Maintenance Services. Two major county departments are the tenants in this multi-functional facility, Department of Transportation and Department of General Services.
The new facility at 16624 Crabbs Branch Way (Casey 7) includes Maintenance Building, Parking, Fare Collection, Fleet Services and Storage Building. These facilities are about a 192,440 SF Footprint or 323,981 Gross SF. The new facilities at 17000 Crabbs Branch Way (Casey 6) and Robert’s Oxygen include Highway Services, Contractor Check-in, Salt/Sand Barns, Bunkers, Covered Storage, Covered Heavy Vehicle, Fuel Island, and Day Labor. These facilities are about a 148,321 SF footprint and Gross SF. Casey 6 is about 19 Acres. Casey 7 is about 17 acres and Robert’s Oxygen portion of EMOC is about 5 acres.
Total current facilities are on 28 acres and total new facilities are on 41 acres. However, since the new design includes many acres of stream buffer protection, forest conservation and newly created green areas the total footprint occupied by the new facilities is smaller than the existing facilities. This has been achieved mainly by designing a multi-story facility with partial cars and buses parking on elevated parking structures as well as multi-story support functions. The new design supports 200 buses and 187 heavy vehicles while the existing facilities support only 163 buses
Community Coordination: From the early stages of planning county staff has conducted numerous meetings with the community to present ideas and receive feedback from the community. Main community concerns were noise, view, traffic and pollution. County staff and a team of consultants evaluated all possibilities and suggestions and incorporated all feasible ideas in the design. The result has been a truly community friendly and environmentally sensitive design. The M-NCPPC Planning Board applauded the team for a very successful, responsible, and innovative design.
Project Images
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Vicinity Map Overall Site Plan
Site Plan for Fleet and Transit Services Site Plan for Highway Maintenance and Salt Barn
Salt Barn Elevations Highway Maintenance and Fuel Station
View from Crabbs Branch Way View from Shady Grove and Crabbs Branch Way
Perspective View from Shady Grove and Crabbs Branch Way View from Shady Grove Road
Office of Special Projects - Department of General Services 9th Floor, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville MD 20850