BEST STONE PROJECT

The Villanova Commons Project — Local 1 Pennsylvania/Delaware

Signatory Contractor: D.M. Sabia & Co. Inc.

BAC members constructed six buildings to house 1,135 students at Villanova University. They also built a campus restaurant, espresso & coffee bar, fitness center, six community rooms and four courtyards. A variety of materials were used on this project, including precast plank decking, over 5,000 tons of New England schist and Avondale field stone, brick, and colored mortar. This project was considered “an old school quality job.” Stone masons were constantly rotated so that a mason’s unique style would be blended on the buildings. Over 150 stone masons and bricklayers from three different states constructed the buildings. A massive job, this project necessitated five forklifts operating on a daily basis, and five different size cranes ranging from 4-ton to 70-ton capacity to set cast stone and move materials. The project was started in March 2017, and masons worked year round until February 2019, when the project was completed. The masonry cost for the project was $28 million, of a total project cost of $225 million.