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222 Sutter Street

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Carolyn Searls

Featuring Gothic and Renaissance elements with a contemporary flare, the ten-story building exemplifies the character of downtown San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The building, which once housed a W. & J. Sloane...

Service:Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Market:Office

Keywords:Corrosion, Cracking, Due Diligence, Facade Inspection, Field Testing, Industrial Rope Access, Masonry, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Masonry-Transitional, Water Leakage, Windows

Gillette Stadium

Foxboro, MA

Project Contacts: Dean Rutila, Mehdi Zarghamee

Gillette Stadium serves as home to the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution. The stadium has 68,000 seats on three decks, eighty luxury suites, and over 6,000 club seats. SGH consulted on several problems encountered during the...

Service:Building Enclosure Investigation, Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation

Market:Sports & Entertainment

Keywords:Arena/Stadium, Concrete, Concrete-Precast, Cracking, Curtain Wall, Failure Investigation, Petrography, Pipe

Providence Place Mall Parking Garages

Providence, RI

Project Contacts: Paul Millette

The Providence Place Mall opened in 1999 with two parking structures named Cityside and Stateside. The two garages are multi-level precast concrete structures adjoining the mall. The garages exhibited chronic, premature cracking and...

Service:Structural Rehabilitation

Market:Parking

Keywords:Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Cracking, Fasteners and Connections, Parking Structure

University of Connecticut, Edward V. Gant Science Complex

Storrs, CT

Project Contacts: Stephen Ruggiero, Katherine Wissink

The brick-clad Gant Science Complex features three wings for the math, physics, and materials sciences departments, including dozens of classrooms and labs. The building suffered from water intrusion and distress of the masonry walls,...

Service:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation

Market:Education - College & Prep

Keywords:Cladding / Recladding, Classroom, Condition Assessment, Cracking, Masonry, Walls, Water Leakage

Prudential Gateway Center

Newark, NJ

Project Contacts: Mehdi Zarghamee

Built in 1983 and 1987, Two and Three Gateway Center served as the headquarters of Prudential Real Estate. The glass/metal curtain walls of these fifteen- and nineteen-story buildings suffered from nickel sulfide (NiS) induced spontaneous...

Service:Building Enclosure Investigation

Market:Office

Keywords:Adhesives, Sealants, and Coatings, Construction Administration, Cracking, Curtain Wall, Expert Testimony, Field Testing, Glass and Glazing, Wind Engineering, Windows

Miami Marine Stadium

Miami, FL

Project Contacts: Paul Kelley, Gustavo Tumialan

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...

Service:Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation

Market:Sports & Entertainment

Keywords:Arena/Stadium, Award Winning, Concrete, Concrete-Cast-in-Place, Cracking, Finite Element Analysis, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Petrography, Preservation Technology , Roofing

1210-1230 Washington Street Garage

Newton, MA

Project Contacts: Paul Kelley, Gustavo Tumialan, Milan Vatovec

The 1210-30 Washington Street Garage is a three-level reinforced concrete parking structure with approximately 25,000 sq ft per level. The two-way slabs are supported by interior concrete columns with capitals and exterior concrete masonry...

Service:Structural Investigation

Market:Parking

Keywords:Award Winning, Composites-FRP / CFRP / GFRP, Concrete, Cracking, Nondestructive Testing, Parking Structure, Plastic/Composite, Structural Strengthening

Logan International Airport Terminal E

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Paul Kelley, Milan Vatovec

The Terminal E Ticketing Concourse is an open space approximately 75 ft wide and 625 ft long. The floor structure is a lightweight slab on composite metal decking and includes a concrete overlay with an epoxy terrazzo floor surface. ...

Service:Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation

Market:Airport

Keywords:Airport, Concrete, Concrete Mix Design, Concrete Rehabilitation, Cracking, Flooring, Slab

Hultman Aqueduct

Weston, MA

Project Contacts: Phillip Sharff, Mehdi Zarghamee

For many years, the Hultman Aqueduct delivered nearly all the drinking water to the Boston area. The aqueduct had never been shut down for inspection or maintenance during that time due to its nonredundant nature. The Massachusetts Water...

Service:Structural Investigation

Market:Water/Wastewater

Keywords:Condition Assessment, Cracking, Engineering Mechanics, Field Testing, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Nondestructive Testing, Petrography, Pipe, Pipeline

MacMillan Pier Floating Dock

Provincetown, MA

Project Contacts: Rasko Ojdrovic

The concrete floating dock on MacMillan Pier incorporated concrete-encased polystyrene floats with light reinforcement in the top and bottom slabs. During its first year of service, the dock failed during a winter storm. Over the next two years,...