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Portsmouth Navy Yard, Modular Submarine Enclosure

Portsmouth, NH

Project Contacts: Aaron Lewis

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard owns and maintains a temporary steel modular-enclosure system to protect submarines during overhaul, repair, and modernization operations. While a contractor was repairing the modules in a nearby staging area, strong...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Science & Defense

Keywords:Condition Assessment, Construction Engineering, Damage, Metal-Steel, Preengineered/Prefabricated/Modular, Wind Loads

Minera Escondida, Organic Growth Project 1, Tunnel 4

Atacama Desert, Chile

Project Contacts: Jesse Beaver

Expansion of the Minera Escondida copper mine included constructing a corrugated steel structural plate arch tunnel. The tunnel acts as a buried bridge to carry a haul road over the mine’s conveyor system. During construction of the...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Highway & Tunnel

Keywords:Buried, Condition Assessment, Culverts and Storm Drains, Damage, Finite Element Analysis, International, Metal, Metal-Steel, Pipe, Pipe, Steel, Pipeline, Settlement, Structural Adequacy Assessment, Tunnel

Apartment Complex

Jacksonville, FL

Project Contacts: Eric Olson, Dean Rutila

The apartment complex, containing over 300 units in seven interconnected buildings, experienced sagging and settling of elevated walkways and balconies shortly after construction. SGH investigated the causes of distress in the wood-framed...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Structural Investigation

Markets:Residential - Apartment

Keywords:Construction Administration, Damage, Expert Testimony, Field Testing, Stucco, Water Leakage, Wood Frame

Overhead Transmission Line

West Springfield, MA

Project Contacts: William Konicki, Aaron Lewis

Concrete drilled shaft foundations, for two electrical utility projects, each support a single steel monopole tower structure for new overhead electrical transmission and generation lines. Surface defects in the concrete were discovered...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Other

Keywords:Concrete, Damage, Field Testing, Foundation, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Nondestructive Testing

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Ellicott City, MD

Project Contacts: Jeffrey Kerr, Gary Strand

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School consists of single-story, brick-clad structure, built in 1958, and a second-story addition constructed in the early 1960s. Following a window replacement project in the 1990s, the exterior walls developed...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Structural Investigation

Markets:Education - K-12

Keywords:Damage, Masonry, Masonry-Load Bearing, Religious, School, Structural Strengthening, Water Leakage

Post-Hurricane Katrina Evaluations, St. Bernard Parish

New Orleans, LA

Project Contacts: Peter Nelson, Eric Olson

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish, located east of New Orleans, with high winds, heavy rains, and flooding due to failure of levees surrounding the parish. SGH evaluated the parish's schools and municipal buildings,...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Structural Investigation

Keywords:Condition Assessment-Multi-Building, Damage, Flood, Roofing

Post-Hurricane Sandy Evaluations

Project Contacts: Nathaniel Smith, Milan Vatovec

On 29 October 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the eastern United States seaboard, bringing high winds and a tidal surge, and causing billions of dollars in damage to our built environment. Some of the worst damage was reported in the...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Residential - Single Family

Keywords:Condition Assessment, Condition Assessment-Multi-Building, Damage, Flood

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Portsmouth Navy Yard, Modular Submarine Enclosure

Minera Escondida, Organic Growth Project 1, Tunnel 4

Apartment Complex

Overhead Transmission Line

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Post-Hurricane Katrina Evaluations, St. Bernard Parish

Post-Hurricane Sandy Evaluations