Client:
The Architect: Design Collective and JP Stone
Partners:
Diageo (owner), Jack Stone Signs, Tnemec Company
Location:
Baltimore County, Maryland
Project Specifications:
A historic renovation to the new Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House, including:
- Main floor brewery facility
- Second-floor taproom
- Third floor 270 seat restaurant space
- 17 x 52 foot Arthur Guinness signature reproduced by hand
- 20 x 20 foot Maryland flag on the grain silo
- Approximately 100,000 square feet
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Project Overview
Cochran & Mann began work in July 2018 as part of this historic renovation project. In the interior of the main facility, the Cochran & Mann team installed all the vinyl graphic wall-coverings while on the outside of the building they prepared and painted a large water tank, the physical plant building’s brick façade, and the grain silo.
The team used Tnemec high-performance coating for all painted items. Masonry surfaces were coated in Tneme-Crete smooth, a self-priming, acrylic emulsion coating that protects against weather, driving rain, and resists mildew growth on the paint film. The team coated metal surfaces with Fluoronar, a high solids fluoropolymer coating that provides an ultra-durable finish, excellent color, and gloss retention even in the most severe exposures. Finally, Cochran & Mann craftsmen installed graphic wallcovering murals that were custom printed on commercial vinyl wallcovering by Jack Stone Signs at their facility in Landover, Maryland.
The project posed several major challenges for Cochran & Mann. One was time. There was a quick turnaround required. Exterior work faced bad weather, large surfaces that required lift equipment and grain silo temperatures that soared to 200° Fahrenheit, requiring a coating that could endure such high temperatures. On the interior, the industrial space created challenges for the mural install; steel framing and corrugated decking had to be cut back and certain devices had to be relocated at the last minute while retaining their functionality and building code adherence.
Results
Despite these challenges, and through the deployment of myriad creative solutions, Cochran & Mann completed their projects in time for the soft opening of the Guinness brewery. Touch up work following the soft opening was completed at the end of August and in time for the brewery's planned Labor Day celebration.
The success of this project would not have been possible without the help of our partners. Diageo is a British-owned company who is the world's largest producer of spirits and a key producer of beer. Architect: Design Collective is a 100% employee-owned design firm who worked tirelessly on bringing this project to life. Evan Pheobus, from design collective employee, worked days, nights, and weekends answering questions and assisting all trades to bring his visions to light.
