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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Abstract: As structural engineers, we are often asked to upgrade or repair historic buildings while minimizing alterations to the facade. Balancing these competing interests, we recently completed retrofits of several historic masonry buildings...
By: Adan, Scott M., Luft, Rene W., Wetzel, Nicholas G.
Abstract: In June 2004, thunderstorm winds caused significant structural damage to a downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma 15-story building. Damage was concentrated on the east facade of the building's multi-story glass atrium. The atrium is constructed...
Abstract: Designers have long been aware of the need to separate dissimilar metals. This requirement frequently appears in project specifications for sheet metal and other trades, but industry references for galvanic corrosion are inadequate for...
One of the most challenging details facing structural designers is the support of a building façade. The complexity of this attachment is not to be overlooked, and the entire design team should be engaged in developing a strategy for supporting...
Abstract: The primary concern of building facade inspection ordinances is to insure the safety of the public and surrounding property and to establish baseline cycles of inspection, maintenance and repair. While public safety is paramount, what...