Projects

19 Projects

New York State Capitol Building

Albany

Project Contacts:

The New York State Capitol was designed by a succession of architects, including H.H. Richardson and Leopold Eidlitz. Constructed in stages between 1870 and 1900, the building features Second...

University of Arizona, Phoenix Biomedical Campus, Health Science Education Building

Phoenix

Project Contacts:

Delbert Bern, Eric Schroter

The six-story Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus houses classrooms, lecture halls, offices, and a below-grade research core. The cladding consists of a 45,000 sq...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Building Science, Classroom, Curtain Wall, Design-Build, Field Testing, LEED Projects, Metal, Metal-Copper, Signature Project, Thermal and Moisture Drive

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 10 Great Dome

Cambridge

Project Contacts:

Peter Babaian, Emily Hopps, Thomas Schwartz

MIT’s Main Group Buildings, dedicated in 1916, include Building 10 with its prominent limestone- and copper-clad Great Dome. SGH investigated leakage into the Barker Library below the Great Dome...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Award Winning, Dome, Library, Masonry, Metal, Metal-Copper, Mockup, Preservation Technology , Signature Project, Stone-Limestone, Thermal and Moisture Drive, Waterproofing

Providence Public Library

Providence

Project Contacts:

Susan Knack-Brown

The Providence Public Library includes the original 1900 renaissance masonry building and the 1953 neoclassical Empire Street Addition. SGH investigated the condition of the building enclosures,...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Deterioration, Facade Inspection, Masonry-Brick, Metal, Metal-Copper, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Stone, Stone-Limestone, Water Leakage

New Hampshire State House

Concord

Project Contacts:

Jeffry Ceruti

The monumental dome on the New Hampshire State House is gilded in gold leaf. After regilding in the early 1990s, the gold leaf started discoloring. The state wanted to understand the cause of...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Materials Investigation

Markets:Office

Keywords:Deterioration, Dome, Materials Analysis, Metal-Copper, Roofing

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park

San Francisco

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...

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

Kansas State Capitol

Topeka

Project Contacts:

Nick Floyd, Niklas Vigener

Officially completed in 1903, the Kansas State Capitol is the impressive home to the state’s government offices. The building is topped with a striking copper dome over a central rotunda that...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Government

Keywords:Dome, Historic, Metal-Copper, National Register of Historic Places, Peer Review, Preservation Technology , Roofing

Bowdoin College, Museum of Art

Brunswick

The Neo-Classical Walker Art Building, designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1894, now houses the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Throughout its life, the building experienced several problems,...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Air Barrier, Building Science, Construction Administration, Dome, Historic, Mechanical/Electrical System, Metal, Metal-Copper, Museum, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Skylight

Bowdoin College Chapel

Brunswick

The Chapel at Bowdoin College, built between 1844 and 1855, was designed by Richard Upjohn in the German Romanesque style. The chapel is symmetrical in plan and contains a central nave flanked by...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Investigation

Markets:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Award Winning, Cracking, Finite Element Analysis, Historic, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Masonry, Metal, Metal-Copper, Preservation Technology , Religious, Roofing, Spire/Bell Tower, Stone, Stone-Granite

Griffith Observatory

Los Angeles

Project Contacts:

Carolyn Searls

Griffith Observatory, which sits on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood, is a Designated Historic-Cultural Monument for the City of Los Angeles. The Art Deco observatory, constructed in 1935,...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Materials Rehabilitation

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Cultural, Dome, Field Testing, Historic, Metal-Copper, Preservation Technology , Waterproofing