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Ohio Department of Mental Retardation &
Developmental Disabilities
30 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio

Project Scope: 2 Floors totalling 36,455 s.f. Project Length: Aug. 1999 - Aug. 2000 Interior Designer: Joyce Penrod Agency Contacts: Sue Griffith and Debbie Lowe

Project Cost: $1, 022,067 Project Cost Per Square Foot: $28.04 Project Cost Includes: Demolition: $279,982, Construction: $139,104, Modular Furniture: $602,981 Project Goals: Convert agency from traditional full-height offices to modular furniture. Design Scope: Design an open and creative space that enables the various groups within the Dept. of MRDD to work together. Develop up-to-date office standards for modular, modular semi-private and full height offices for an open environment with modular stations on angles next to the windows.

Project Challenges: To provide a more personal approach to the modular station design. Accomplished by providing wardrobe kiosk for coats, umbrellas, etc. in each person's station. Project Partners: OBA - Demolition/Construction Contract Interiors - Offices/Modular Furniture & Installation Modular Furniture: Knoll Morrison

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Interior Design Services
a division of the State Architect's Office
4200 Surface Road • Columbus, Ohio 43228-1395
v: 614.466.4761 • f: 614.644.7982
e: StateArchOff@das.state.oh.us