Facility: Woodmore PK-8 School – Woodville, OH Architect: Stough & Stough Architects – Sylvania, OH Contractor: Studer Obringer, Inc. – New Washington, OH Construction Manager: Touchstone CPM, Inc. – Lima, OH Sub-Contractor: Farnham Equipment Company Specification Sections: 123200 Manufactured Casework 123583 Music Casework 123553 Wood Lab (Science) Casework 133416 Gymnasium Bleachers Third time Read more…
Facility: Vermilion Elementary School Architect: Lesko Associates – Cleveland, OH Contractor: RFC Contracting, Inc. – Strongsville, OH Sub-Contractor: Farnham Equipment Company Specification Sections: 123450 Casework & Fixtures Vermilion Elementary School’s new K-3 building is slated to open for the 2015-2016 school year. The new 61,800 square-foot building took a different approach with funding, Read more…
The most common violation, and perhaps the easiest to spot, involves a 4-inch sphere. Why a 4-inch sphere? Think about the members of the community in your bleachers or your grandstands watching the game. Even the tiniest of fans come out to support their big brothers or big sisters. Read more…
Facility: Bath PreK-5 School – Bath Local Schools Architect: Garmann Miller Architects · Engineers – Minster, OH Construction Manager at Risk: Touchstone CPM, Inc. – Lima, OH Contractor: Charles Construction – Findlay, OH Students at Bath Elementary School occupied their new building on January 5, 2015. Farnham Equipment Company fulfilled the following specification sections for Read more…
A capital equipment purchase such as a bleacher system can be extremely complicated. Often, this is a once in a generation type purchase. It is critical that such a purchase be done correctly to maximize the investment, but where do you even start? There are numerous options to consider Read more…
Facility: The Stuart & Mimi Rose Music Center at the Heights | Huber Heights, OH Architect: GBBN Architects – Cincinnati, OH Construction Manager: Messer Construction Company – Huber Heights, OH Contractor: Farnham Equipment Company The Stuart & Mimi Rose Music Center at the Heights, approved for construction in 2013, is a fully covered Read more…
As mentioned in Part 1, our primary focus in this series is the ICC 300-2012 which is available for download free. In this section, we’re going to discuss inspections and applicable definitions. Starting with Chapter 1: Section 105 Inspection: 105.1 Required installation and construction inspection states that after the Read more…
Facility: Botkins K-12 School – Botkins, OH Architect: Fanning/Howey Associates Architects | Engineers – Celina, OH Construction Manager: Resource International – Columbus, OH Contractor: Charles Construction Services – Findlay, OH Sub-Contractor: Farnham Equipment Company Farnham Equipment Company was pleased to have the opportunity to work with Fanning/Howey Associates, Resource International and Charles Construction on Read more…
We’ve talked about code compliance and bleacher safety quite a bit lately. We have had the opportunity to present two presentations at the Ohio Public Facilities Maintenance Association’s Annual Conference and one panel discussion presentation at the Ohio School Board Association’s Capital Conference. At each of our presentations, we Read more…
Farnham Equipment Company provided a turnkey solution to Pandora-Gilboa Local Schools in response to a request for proposal to replace the football field’s home side bleachers. The result was a custom 16-row x 96’ hillside angle frame aluminum bleacher with closed decking. The bleacher system included a net seating Read more…