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Naval Hospital Replacement Project

Camp Pendleton, CA

Project Contacts: Amy Hackney, Kenneth Klein

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton needed a new hospital to facilitate expansion and advancing medical and technical services. To promote healing, the new building features calming interiors, a sunlit atrium, and central courtyard. SGH assisted HKS...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Health Care

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Curtain Wall, Design-Build, Green / Sustainable Design, LEED Projects, Parking Structure, Waterproofing

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley, CA

Project Contacts: Jeffry Ceruti, Ronald Hamburger, Kenneth Klein

The University of California needed to seismically retrofit the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, but determined it would negatively affect exhibit space. Needing a new home for the museum, the university chose a downtown Berkeley...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Structural Design, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Below-Ground Waterproofing, Cladding / Recladding, Construction Administration, Metal, Museum, Peer Review, Roofing, Seismic Engineering and Retrofit

The Beacon

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

Responding to an increasing demand for San Francisco housing, Catellus developed The Beacon as a mixed-use complex for city living in the Mission Bay neighborhood. Located on an entire city block in close proximity to the Giants’ ballpark...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Below-Grade, Condominium, New Construction, Podium, Residential, Roofing, Waterproofing

California Academy of Sciences

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

After 90 yrs in the Golden Gate Park, the California Academy of Sciences demolished most of its eleven buildings to clear the site for a new home. As one of the nation’s leading natural history museums and research centers, the academy...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Structural Design

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Asphalt, Award Winning, Below-Grade, New Construction, Green / Sustainable Design, Green Roofs, LEED Projects, Museum, Peer Review, Roofing, Roofing, Vegetative

Contemporary Jewish Museum

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s new home in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena cultural district involved adaptive reuse of the Jessie Street Power Substation. Designed by the architectural team of Daniel Libeskind and WRNS Studio, the...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Below-Grade, New Construction, Facadism, Masonry-Brick, Metal-Steel, Monumental Buildings, Museum, Peer Review, Plaza, Waterproofing

University of California, Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

Berkeley, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

The UC Berkeley Health Sciences Initiative included replacing Warren Hall near the northwest corner of campus with the new Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. The five-story Li Ka Shing Center offers space for scientists to...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Air Barrier, Award Winning, Below-Grade, Classroom, New Construction, LEED Projects, Laboratory, Masonry, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Peer Review, Roofing, Waterproofing

The Brannan

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein, Kenneth Tam

As part of the revitalization for the South of Market area of San Francisco, Reliance Development Group wanted to build three luxury condominium buildings. The 700,000 sq ft Brannan complex consists of seventeen-story towers with a total of 356...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Balcony, Below-Grade, Construction Administration, New Construction, Curtain Wall, High Rise, Residential, Walls, Waterproofing

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

The original museum opened in Golden Gate Park in 1895. Damaged beyond repair by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the building was demolished in 2000 to make way for a new 292,000 sq ft building containing 116,000 sq ft of gallery and...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Materials Investigation

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Cladding / Recladding, Field Testing, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Metal, Metal-Copper, Museum, Plaza, Signature Project, Walls, Waterproofing

The Century

Los Angeles, CA

Project Contacts: Amy Hackney, Kenneth Klein

The Century offers forty-two stories of luxury condominiums with views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean. The elliptical-shaped building sits on nearly four acres of landscaped grounds and features terraced podium levels, plaza areas...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Balcony, Below-Grade, Construction Administration, New Construction, Curtain Wall, Green / Sustainable Design, High Rise, LEED Projects, Parking Structure, Plaza, Roofing, Waterproofing

VITA Tysons Corner Center

Tysons Corner, VA

Project Contacts: Bradford Carpenter

Tysons Corner Center is a mixed-use complex with a residential tower, office tower, and hotel connected by an elevated pedestrian plaza. SGH consulted on the building enclosure for the 429-unit VITA residential tower. We also peer...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Concrete-Precast, Construction Administration, Curtain Wall, Mockup, Peer Review, Plaza, Residential, Roofing, Roofing, Low-Sloped, Waterproofing

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Naval Hospital Replacement Project

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Beacon

California Academy of Sciences

Contemporary Jewish Museum

University of California, Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

The Brannan

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

The Century

VITA Tysons Corner Center

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