The Carl J. Shapiro Science Center project consisted of 155,000 sq ft of new construction, 40,000 sq ft of renovated space, and infrastructure upgrades. The existing science complex comprises eight main buildings and several secondary...
After Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the City of Miami closed the Miami Marine Stadium because of safety concerns. The building remained unused for seventeen years and continued to suffer exposure to weather and coastal chlorides. Eventually, the...
As part of an effort to eliminate open distribution storage reservoirs, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority sought to construct two covered drinking water storage tanks. The Blue Hills Covered Storage Project involved the construction of two...
One and Four Longfellow Place are twin high rise apartments buildings and part of Boston’s Charles River Park development. The 38-story, cast-in-place concrete towers were built between 1972 to 1975. Corroded reinforcement in the exposed...
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 Historic Places. The structure suffered from water...
The Veterans Administration (VA) wished to add a four-story ambulatory care facility adjoining the existing medical center. SGH was the structural engineer for the 100,000 sq ft addition, which we designed in accordance with the VA seismic design...
Since the early 1980s, SGH has worked with Crom Corporation to assist them in their tank designs. Crom is one of the largest manufacturers of prestressed concrete tanks in the United States. The elevated tanks, with a capacity of between 1.5 MG...
Zurich’s facility improvement plan required additional parking for over 1,000 vehicles and needed the parking structure to be operational within sixteen months from the start of design. SGH served as the prime design professional for this 1...
The Museum of Science parking garage was built in two phases in the late 1960s and partially spans the Charles River. After thirty years of exposure to weather and vehicles, chlorides from deicing salts permeated the top surface of the concrete...
The Ashford Perimeter Center garage is a four-level, 700-car concrete parking structure with post-tensioned, flat slabs supported on concrete columns. During the garage construction, it was discovered that the post-tensioning system in the east-...