693 Projects

1111 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington
,
DC
Project Contacts:
Scott Silvester, Niklas Vigener

When the law offices of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP moved into the block-long, ten-story office building at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, they realized that the space suffered from a lack of...

Service:Structural Design, Building Enclosure Design
Market:Office
Keywords:Glass and Glazing, Skylight

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...

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

Calleguas Municipal Water District, Conduit North Branch

Thousand Oaks
,
CA
Project Contacts:
Rasko Ojdrovic, Mehdi Zarghamee

Calleguas Municipal Water District experienced a failure in 140 ft of steel liner within a 78 in. dia. prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) water main. The failure...

Service:Structural Rehabilitation
Market:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Finite Element Analysis, Metal-Steel, Metal, PCCP, Pipe, Pipeline

Lincoln Public Library

Lincoln
,
MA
Project Contacts:
Susan Knack-Brown

The original library building, designed by William G. Preston and opened in 1884, is a one-story, load-bearing brick and brownstone masonry structure with slate roofs and a clock tower that rises...

Service:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation
Market:Cultural
Keywords:Historic, Library, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Masonry, Metal-Copper, Metal, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Spire/Bell Tower, Stone-Slate

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Park Street Station

Boston
,
MA
Project Contacts:
William Konicki

Park Street Station is the oldest subway station in the United States.  As part of a system-wide upgrade of light rail transit stations for improved accessibility, the Massachusetts Bay...

Service:Structural Rehabilitation
Market:Transportation
Keywords:Construction Engineering, Demolition, Field Testing, Geotechnical, Peer Review, Shoring/Temporary Structure, Station, Structural Adequacy Assessment, Structural Strengthening

Williams-Sonoma at Union Square

San Francisco
,
CA
Project Contacts:
John Sumnicht

Once known as Bullock & Jones men's clothier, this 18,000 sq ft cast-in-place concrete building was reconstructed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Prominently located on Union Square,...

Service:Structural Rehabilitation
Market:Retail
Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Historic, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Masonry, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Seismic Engineering and Retrofit

Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Los Angeles
,
CA
Project Contacts:
Christopher Norton, Carolyn Searls

Dedicated in 1929, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple is the oldest synagogue in the Los Angeles area. The temple is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed on the National Register of...

Service:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation
Market:Religious
Keywords:Award Winning, Concrete-Cast-in-Place, Condition Assessment, Cracking, Dome, Historic, Leaded and Stained Glass, Masonry, Metal-Copper, Metal, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Signature Project, Stone-Cast, Stucco, Water Leakage

Global Analysis of World Trade Center Towers

New York
,
NY
Project Contacts:
Mehdi Zarghamee

The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on 11 September 2001 was an unprecedented event in U.S. history.  NIST retained SGH and ARA to develop computer simulations of the structural...

Service:Structural Investigation
Market:Office
Keywords:Analytical Studies, Award Winning, Blast Analysis & Resistance, Collapse, Expert Testimony, Failure Investigation, Finite Element Analysis, Fire Engineering, Fire

Rockland County Psychiatric Center

Orangeburg
,
NY
Project Contacts:
Niklas Vigener

The Rockland County Psychiatric Center was originally constructed during the 1920s and 1930s to provide residential treatment and rehabilitation for clients with mental illnesses. Although many of...

Service:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation
Market:Health Care
Keywords:Historic, Preservation Technology , Roof Replacement, Roofing, Clay Tile, Roofing

Bi-County East and West Water Tunnel

Prince George and Montgomery
,
MD
Project Contacts:
Donald Dusenberry, Howard Simpson

The Bi-County East and West Water Tunnel supplies potable water to Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland.  The tunnel, located in heavily weathered rock up to 120 ft below the I-495...

Service:Structural Investigation
Market:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Failure Investigation, Peer Review, Soil-Structure Interaction, Tunnel

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