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Atlantic (formerly Russia) Wharf

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Michael Louis

Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) combines residential, retail, and office space in one Fort Point Channel location. The project involved integrating three historic, low-rise buildings with a new mixed-use office tower. With this design, the...

Service:Building Enclosure Design

Market:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Below-Grade, Below-Ground Waterproofing, Cladding / Recladding, Curtain Wall, Facadism, High Rise, Historic, LEED Projects, Office, Plaza, Skylight, Walls, Waterproofing

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...

Service:Building Enclosure Design

Market:Cultural

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

1100 Broadway

Oakland, CA

Project Contacts: Anindya Dutta, Ronald Hamburger

The 1100 Broadway project combines the adaptive reuse of the Key System Building, which was heavily damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, with the construction of a new twenty-story building. SGH was the structural engineer for the...

Service:Structural Design

Market:Office

Keywords:New Construction, Demolition, Facadism, Frame Moment, Frame, Special Moment, High Rise, LEED Projects, Pile, Revit/BIM, Tunnel

The Savoy

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Erik Farrington, James Parker

The Savoy, originally built in the late nineteenth century, looks out to Boston’s South End historic district. Real estate developers planned to convert The Savoy to a six-story, luxury condominium building with ground-floor...

Service:Structural Rehabilitation

Market:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Construction Engineering, Demolition, Facadism, Structural Stabilization

Leigh Street Armory

Richmond, VA

Project Contacts: Niklas Vigener

Built circa 1895 and listed on the state and national registers, the First Virginia Volunteers Battalion Armory, also known as the Leigh Street Armory, is the oldest armory building standing in Virginia. It has significant cultural heritage as...

Service:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation

Market:Cultural

Keywords:Award Winning, Code Compliance, Condition Assessment, Construction Administration, Facadism, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Brick, Masonry-Terra Cotta, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Structural Stabilization, Wood, Wood Frame

Odd Fellows Hall

Wakefield, MA

Project Contacts: Donald Dusenberry

Odd Fellows Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in the late 1800s as a manufacturing building with then-common post-and-beam interior framing and unreinforced brick masonry exterior walls. In 1997, when a...