Belmont, MA

Belmont Day School Barn

Scope/Solutions

The Belmont Day School wanted to expand their campus by constructing a new building to support their athletics and STEAM programs. The Barn includes the fieldhouse with two basketball/volleyball gymnasiums and the headhouse containing locker rooms, fieldhouse support space, and five new workshop-style classrooms. SGH was the structural engineer of record for the project.

SGH designed the steel-framed headhouse and the concrete foundation for the abutting pre-engineered fieldhouse. Highlights of our design include:

  • A moment-frame lateral system to create large open spans and maximize flexibility in the tight building footprint
  • Hollow structural section (HSS) columns for moment frames at both the flat and gable shaped roof areas
  • Two dormers in the steel-framed gable roof: one for a 24ft wide glazed opening and another to accommodate the large duct inlets from the adjacent flat roof
  • A 9ft cantilevered entrance canopy with plate fins to minimize thermal bridging at the connection to the base building structure
  • A cantilevered portion of the headhouse adjacent to the fieldhouse to facilitate flow between the two spaces

Project Summary

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2018

Completion Date
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8M

Construction Value
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14K (fieldhouse

Project Size
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13K (headhouse)

Project Size
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Winner
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Structures
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Education
Client(s)
Utile, Inc.
Specialized Capabilities
Building Design

Key team members

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Paul Kassabian
Principal
781.907.9258 pekassabian@sgh.com
Rebecca Lubrano
Senior Project Manager
781.907.9372 rhlubrano@sgh.com

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