The Nemours Children’s Hospital includes four buildings on a 60-acre campus. The two seven-story, cast-in-place concrete hospital and clinic buildings and two steel-framed, two-story structures for the central energy plant and loading dock/...
Balancing the need for more space with a commitment to keeping the growing collection on campus, the University of Chicago undertook constructing a new library building that connects to the existing Regenstein Library. The design takes advantage...
Designed by Gio Ponti, the North Building opened in 1971. The castle-like exterior represents the building’s function of protecting the museum’s artwork. The facade is clad in glass tiles that Ponti chose to reflect the light and sky...
The Avalon Dogpatch development brings three residential buildings to the neighborhood formerly defined by its waterfront commerce and working class residences. The five-story buildings are visually different, but complement each other with their...
Sited on the edge of Black Hill Regional Park in the heart of Montgomery County, Lerner Black Hill offers neighborhood conveniences with accessibility to nearby Washington, DC. The apartment complex, with multiple low-rise buildings around shared...
With an oceanfront site and three floors of amenities, the Jade Signature brings a resort experience to residents’ everyday life. The fifty-five-story condominium building features an exposed cast-in-place structure, large expanses of glass...
The mixed-use development at 400 Folsom Street includes a fifty-five-story tower (The Avery) and two low-rise buildings designed by the executive architecture team of Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Fougeron Architecture. Together, the...
Designed by Renzo Piano, the new home for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures showcases movie history. The project included a major renovation to the former May Company Building with a striking new spherical addition housing a 1000-seat theater...
Boston Children’s Hospital wanted a new clinical building that would incorporate the latest healthcare programming and technology. The building, with 150 patient rooms and 16 operating rooms, includes 28,000 sq ft of green space to promote...
Just one block from the Jackson Square Historic District, 288 Pacific incorporates modern residences with an early 1900s masonry structure. The project brings thirty-three condominiums to the neighborhood in a seven-story, L-shaped structure...
Many buildings have enclosed below-grade spaces, which can either be exposed to permanent, temporary, or perched groundwater conditions. Typically, these groundwater elevations fluctuate several feet, if not more, due to precipitation or...
Natural disasters can significantly damage buildings and disrupt operations. With flooding as the nation’s leading cause of disaster, it is important for facility owners and managers to understand flood risk and possible mitigation options.
The October 2018 issue of Construction Specifier magazine features an article by Jonathan Stafford and Xiu Li. The article, “Waterproofing Elevator Pits 101,” discusses the challenges of designing waterproofing systems for...
Matthew Normandeau, Paul Sujka, and Alex Kosis published an article in Building Enclosure magazine article that explores below-grade waterproofing warranties. In “Below-Grade Waterproofing Warranties: The Common Misperception,” the...
As a follow-up to their preliminary laboratory testing program related to lateral water migration with blind-side below-grade waterproofing membranes, John Karras, Anthony Nicastro and former SGH employee Keith Nelson recently authored...
Construction site dewatering is used to locally control and lower groundwater levels in the vicinity of the excavation. This is typically done to maintain soil conditions needed during, and occasionally after, construction—for example, to...
Approximately half of all of today’s commercial and institutional buildings were built before 1980¹. Many of these buildings were conceived and designed for generations of use, but have outlasted, or will soon outlast, the...
A half-day seminar titled, “Waterproofing Disasters and How to Avoid Them,” sponsored by the CSI East Bay/Oakland Chapter and the AIA East Bay took place at Jack London Square in Oakland on 23 April. SGH's Andrea Bono and...
Abstract: Below-grade waterproofing and temporary earth retention systems should be coordinated and designed in tandem to maximize continuity of the waterproofing system. We discovered that some designers and contractors do not consistently...
Each year, uncontrolled water bypasses waterproofing systems, impacts interior occupancies, and damages interior finishes and contents of below-grade structures. A design professional can combat this problem by identifying...