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Building Enclosure Condition Assessments for Schools

Building Enclosure Condition Assessments for Schools

Chicago, IL
Project Contacts: Peter Babaian

SGH helped several schools in the Chicago area by assessing the condition of their buildings’ enclosures and working with them to develop plans for future capital projects, maintenance, and repair work. Our evaluations encompass a wide...

Services:Building Enclosure Design
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Roofing, School, Walls, Walls and Fenestration
Stanford University, Lathrop Library

Stanford University, Lathrop Library

Stanford, CA
Project Contacts: Carolyn Searls

Originally constructed as the Graduate School of Business, the Lathrop Library was converted to a library and auditorium in 2015. The building is distinguished by exposed cast-in-place concrete facades, bronze-anodized aluminum windows and...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation
Markets:Education - College & Prep
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Library, Preservation Technology , Roof Replacement, Roofing, Roofing, Clay Tile, Roofing, Low-Sloped
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Washington, DC
Project Contacts: Eric Ober, Joseph Rogers

Designed by Cass Gilbert and constructed in the 1920s, the Chamber of Commerce is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The street-facing elevations feature a story-high, granite-clad water table with three stories of limestone...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation
Markets:Office
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Facade Inspection, Failure Investigation, Government, Roof Replacement, Roofing, Stone
Salt Processing Dome

Salt Processing Dome

Savage, MN
Project Contacts: Neal Anderson, Dominic Kelly

The salt processing dome, with an inside diameter of 173 ft and a dome peak of 65 ft, houses equipment for processing and packaging bulk rock salt for commercial sale. The shell structure was constructed in 1985 by placing a nominal 3-1/2 in. of...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Manufacturing & Industrial
Keywords:Award Winning, Composites-FRP / CFRP / GFRP, Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Concrete-Post-tensioned, Condition Assessment, Dome
The Richardson Olmsted Campus

The Richardson Olmsted Campus

Buffalo, NY
Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski, Erik Farrington, Pedro Sifre

Designed by H.H. Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1870s, the 203-acre Richardson Olmsted Campus began as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. The 38-building site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Mixed-Use
Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Award Winning, Condition Assessment, Historic, Hospital, Masonry, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Revit/BIM, Shoring/Temporary Structure, Structural Stabilization, Structural Strengthening
Portsmouth Navy Yard, Modular Submarine Enclosure

Portsmouth Navy Yard, Modular Submarine Enclosure

Portsmouth, NH
Project Contacts: Aaron Lewis

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard owns and maintains a temporary steel modular-enclosure system to protect submarines during overhaul, repair, and modernization operations. While a contractor was repairing the modules in a nearby staging area, strong...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Science & Defense
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Construction Engineering, Damage, Metal-Steel, Preengineered/Prefabricated/Modular, Wind Loads
Minera Escondida, Organic Growth Project 1, Tunnel 4

Minera Escondida, Organic Growth Project 1, Tunnel 4

Atacama Desert, Chile
Project Contacts: Jesse Beaver

Expansion of the Minera Escondida copper mine included constructing a corrugated steel structural plate arch tunnel. The tunnel acts as a buried bridge to carry a haul road over the mine’s conveyor system. During construction of the...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Highway & Tunnel
Keywords:Buried, Condition Assessment, Culverts and Storm Drains, Damage, Finite Element Analysis, International, Metal, Metal-Steel, Pipe, Pipe, Steel, Pipeline, Settlement, Structural Adequacy Assessment, Tunnel
North Carolina Museum of Art, Smokestack Project

North Carolina Museum of Art, Smokestack Project

Raleigh, NC
Project Contacts: Matthew Johnson

As they planned for a multi-million dollar renovation to their 164-acre park, the North Carolina Museum of Art commissioned artist Jim Hodges to reinvent their existing smokestack as a permanent art installation. The brick masonry smokestack is...

Services:Structural Design
Markets:Cultural
Keywords:Art Work, Chimney/Stack, Computational Design, Condition Assessment, Masonry-Brick, Museum
Boston University, Tsai Performance Center

Boston University, Tsai Performance Center

Boston, MA
Project Contacts: Cory Brett, Scott DiFiore

The Tsai Performance Center hosts concerts, theatrical and dance presentations, lectures, film programs, and conferences. Boston University wanted to upgrade an outdated sound system with new audio and network components. The upgrade involved...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Education - College & Prep
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Construction Administration, Structural Strengthening, Theater/Performing Arts
524 South Park Street Kalamazoo

524 South Park Street

Kalamazoo, MI
Project Contacts: Peter Babaian

Constructed in 2008, the one-story building at 524 South Park Street houses a medical radiology department and related spaces. As part of a property consolidation effort, Bronson Healthcare wanted to better understand the condition of their...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation
Markets:Health Care
Keywords:Below-Ground Waterproofing, Building Science, Condition Assessment, Curtain Wall, Due Diligence, Hospital, Office, Roofing, Roofing, Low-Sloped, Roofing, Steep-Sloped

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September 28, 2017

Evaluating Building Enclosures After Hurricanes

By: Andrew Jeffrey, Eric Olson, Peter Nelson
Hurricanes bring wind, rain, and flooding that can damage buildings, causing municipalities, asset managers, property owners, and insurance companies to seek information about their buildings’ condition. A post-hurricane assessment can help determine the extent and causes of damage to the building and its enclosure, including roofs, exterior wall cladding/siding, insulation, windows, and curtain walls.
Services:Building Enclosure Investigation
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Damage, Emergency Response
August 14, 2017

WSSC Breaks Its Record in CFRP Lining of PCCP in One Outage

By: Murat Engindeniz, Rasko Ojdrovic, Michael P. Gipsov

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC)’s condition assessment and repair program on critical transmission mains continued in spring 2016 with a record-breaking project where a total of forty-one 60 in. to 66 in. diameter prestressed...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Composites-FRP / CFRP / GFRP, Condition Assessment, PCCP, Pipeline
April 4, 2017

Restoring Alignment to Distorted Stackable Modules

By: Diego Arabbo, Matthew Gilbertson

Civil + Structural Engineer magazine published a case study by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH®) senior staff members detailing the condition assessment and repair of steel removable submarine covers (RSCs) at the Portsmouth Naval...

Services:Structural Investigation
Keywords:Condition Assessment
November 18, 2015

Evaluating the Conditions of the Miami Marine Stadium

By: Gustavo Tumialan

Built in 1963, the Miami Marine Stadium is an iconic modernist landmark on the Miami
waterfront. The 6566-seat cast-in-place concrete stadium has a footprint of approximately 125 x
330 ft (38 x 100 m). The eight-bay, origami-like...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Sports & Entertainment
Keywords:Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Condition Assessment, Corrosion
November 4, 2015

Incorporating GIS-Based Structural Evaluation Tools into Pipeline Asset Management

By: Peter Nardini, Mehdi Zarghamee, Lauren Bain, Courtney Jalbert, Angela Remer
This paper presents the recent enhancements to Tarrant Regional Water District’s (TRWD’s) geographic information system (GIS)-based structural evaluation tool, how this tool is used to improve asset management capabilities,
...
Services:Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation
Markets:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Failure Risk Assessment, Pipe, Pipeline
November 4, 2015

A Repair Program to Minimize Failure Risk of Highly Distressed PCCP Circulating Water Lines

By: Murat Engindeniz, Mehdi Zarghamee, Kevin Crosby, Ben Cluff
Arizona Public Service Company’s Cholla Power Plant has four units with circulating water lines made of 66 in. to 72 in. diameter prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) in Units 2, 3, and 4. PCCP in these three units has been in
...
Services:Materials Investigation, Materials Rehabilitation
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Corrosion, PCCP, Pipe, Pipeline, Power
June 29, 2013

Pipeline Asset Management Using a GIS Solution

By: Mehdi Zarghamee, Peter Nardini, Courtney Jalbert, Mike Garaci

Abstract: Effective asset management requires that utilities allocate scarce resources to high risk sections of their pipeline system while maintaining an acceptable level of risk throughout the system.|This asset management approach requires the...

Services:Structural Investigation
Markets:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Pipeline, Risk Assessment, Non-Destructive Testing
May 30, 2013

Prevention of additional building settlement due to adjacent construction at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT

By: Giuliana Zelada-Tumialan, Sean Radley, William Konicki, Floyd, Drew

Abstract: During excavation for the foundation of the new John T. O’Connell North Tower at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center (SFHMC), in Hartford, Connecticut in 2008, Building 3, an immediately-adjacent five-story brick masonry...

Services:Structural Investigation
Keywords:Condition Assessment, Masonry, Masonry-Brick
November 29, 2012

Pounding of San Francisco-Type Soft-Story Corner Buildings

By: David McCormick, Maison, Bruce, Bonowitz, David, Kornfield, Laurence

Abstract: We investigated 1920s-era four-story wood-frame corner buildings common to San Francisco, many of which were damaged in the city's Marina District during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Such buildings can have relatively weak and...

Services:Structural Investigation
Markets:Residential - Condominium, Residential - Single Family
Keywords:Code Compliance, Condition Assessment, Ordinance, Seismic Analyses, Wood Frame
August 30, 2012

Can It Handle the Pressure? Condition Assessment, Structural Evaluation, and Repair of an Existing 72-Inch PCCP Pipeline

By: Mehdi Zarghamee, Hutson, Alan, Long, Steve, Payne, Jeff

Abstract: Since its formation in 1951, the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) has been charged with developing a reliable water supply source for its 13 member cities and 46 other customers (some direct and some indirect), including...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation
Markets:Water/Wastewater
Keywords:Concrete, Condition Assessment, Finite Element Analysis, PCCP, Pipe, Soil-Structure Interaction, Non-Destructive Testing

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