The sculpture, designed by Cristina Parreño, is located on the second floor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum on Massachusetts Avenue as part of their International Design Center. Acting as a symbol of the creative...
Second in Cristina Parreño's Tectonics of Transparency series, The Tower was a temporary installation on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. To align with the exhibition's infrastructure heritage theme, the glass tower served as a periscope,...
Providing passenger service to the region since 1926, Sacramento Valley Station, formerly Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, is listed on national, state, and local historic registers. SGH performed seismic/structural and facade assessments...
The granite-clad Medical Center building, built in the 1970s, is nine stories tall. The building houses the university teaching hospital, the medical school, and clinical research laboratories. SGH led an investigation of the stone...
Built in 1899 for the Oliver P. Posey family, the Doheny family occupied the home for nearly sixty years. The three-story mansion was designed by architects Theodore A. Eisen and Sumner P. Hunt with elements from the Gothic, Chateauesque,...
Built in 1983 and 1987, Two and Three Gateway Center served as the headquarters of Prudential Real Estate. The glass/metal curtain walls of these fifteen- and nineteen-story buildings suffered from nickel sulfide (NiS) induced spontaneous...
Replacing a 108-year-old streetcar barn, the 100th Street Bus Depot opened in 2003. Shortly after construction, the elevated concrete floor slabs cracked. The contractor attempted to repair the 280,000 sq ft of elevated decks and ramps, but...
The new mixed-use building at 160 Massachusetts Avenue is the first completely new facility that the college constructed in over 60 years. The building offers 173 dormitory rooms, practice rooms and common areas, a fourth-floor roof terrace, a...
The General Services Administration leased warehouse space to the National Park Service The General Services Administration leased warehouse space to the National Park Service (NPS) to house rare and valuable national artifacts, along with...
The Glass Building is a four-story office building built over a parking structure. The steel moment-frame building features a structurally-glazed curtain wall. As a result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the building experienced...
Waterproofing systems installed on bridge decks, elevated parking decks, and similar structures often have paving systems over them to protect the waterproofing and to provide a surface suitable for vehicular traffic. Vehicular loads are...
Amy L. Hackney and James A. McDonald published an article in the March 2015 issue of Concrete Construction. The article is titled, “Keep Architectural Concrete Looking Great,” and discusses special considerations that must...
Abstract: Existing sealant industry design and construction guidelines can be useful resources for the typical sealant applicator, general contractor, architect or engineer tasked with sealant design, or facility manager tasked with a sealant...
Hosted by Chapman Construction, SGH's Emily Hopps recently gave a presentation on flooring failures. Multiple failures of many different floor finishes applied to concrete floor slabs have become more common over the past several...
Abstract: Full-scale unitized, four-sided, structural sealant glazing (4SSG) curtain wall system mockups featuring a re-entrant corner were subjected to cyclic racking displacements in accordance with the American Architectural Manufacturers...
Abstract: Full-scale, unitized, four-sided structural sealant glazing (4SSG) curtain wall system mockups featuring a re-entrant corner were subjected to cyclic racking displacements in accordance with the American Architectural Manufacturers...
Abstract: Full-scale, unitized, four-sided structural sealant glazing (4SSG) curtain wall system mock-ups featuring a re-entrant corner were subjected to cyclic racking displacements in accordance with the American Architectural Manufacturers...
Also published in Journal of ASTM International v9 n3 March 2012. Abstract: Foamed adhesives are used to join roofing assembly components to the roof substrate and to each other. A variety of performance problems with foamed adhesives as...
Abstract: Recent changes in the installation and composition of floor finishes for concrete floor slabs have made these materials more susceptible to moisture- and alkalinity-related deterioration. This article reviews the sources of moisture in...