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Charlestown Bus Facility Shoreline Stabilization and Yard Improvements

Lynn, MA

Project Contacts: Dominic Kelly, Paul Schuman

The Charlestown Bus Facility along the Mystic River is the MBTA’s largest bus garage and critical to daily operations. The existing steel sheet pile seawall, which protects the facility from flooding and river erosion, was severely...

Services:Structural Design, Structural Investigation

Keywords:Civil, Civil: On-Site Stormwater Management, Deterioration, Flood, Geotechnical, Retaining Wall, Storm Drains, Structural Stabilization

Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House

Staten Island, NY

Project Contacts: Kevin Poulin

The earliest section of the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House was constructed in the early 1660s by Pierre Billiou at a time when Staten Island was part of part of the Dutch colony known as New Netherland. Thomas Stillwelll added to the home in the...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation

Keywords:Condition Assessment, Deterioration, Geotechnical, Historic, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Wood

The Point LIC, Paragon and Blanchard

Long Island City, NY

Project Contacts: Matthew Normandeau, Kevin Poulin

The Point LIC, a new commercial development, reinvents two seven-story industrial buildings as the Paragon and Blanchard. The renovated buildings offer open office floor plans, ground-level retail, and other amenities. SGH provided building...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Construction Administration, Deterioration, Masonry-Brick, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Masonry-Transitional, Office, Renovation, Roof Replacement, Roofing, Structural Strengthening, Windows

Concrete Sidewalk Investigations

Belmont, MA

Project Contacts: Matthew Sherman

SGH investigated the causes of deteriorating concrete sidewalks at multiple locations in Massachusetts. Deterioration ranged from scaling to surface delaminations.

Services:Materials Investigation

Keywords:Concrete, Deterioration, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Petrography

Providence Public Library

Providence, RI

Project Contacts: Susan Knack-Brown

The Providence Public Library includes the original 1900 renaissance masonry building and the 1953 neoclassical Empire Street Addition. SGH investigated the condition of the building enclosures, prioritized repair recommendations, and identified...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Deterioration, Facade Inspection, Masonry-Brick, Metal, Metal-Copper, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Stone, Stone-Limestone, Water Leakage

New Hampshire State House

Concord, NH

Project Contacts: Jeffry Ceruti

The monumental dome on the New Hampshire State House is gilded in gold leaf. After regilding in the early 1990s, the gold leaf started discoloring. The state wanted to understand the cause of discoloration and identify any inherent problems prior...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Materials Investigation

Markets:Office

Keywords:Award Winning, Deterioration, Dome, Materials Analysis, Metal-Copper, Roofing

UMass Memorial Medical Center, University Campus, Helipad

Worcester, MA

Project Contacts: Greggrey Cohen, Paul Millette

The helipad at UMass Memorial Medical Center’s University Campus is an essential part of the hospital’s patient transport operations. Its cast-in-place concrete slab exhibited joint deterioration exacerbated by plowing and deicing...

Services:Structural Design, Structural Investigation

Markets:Health Care

Keywords:Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Concrete-Cast-in-Place, Construction Administration, Construction Engineering, Deterioration

Medford High School Pool

Medford, MA

Project Contacts: Paul Kelley, Matthew Sherman

The swimming pool at Medford High School was constructed in 1970 and exhibited spalling, staining, leakage, and exposed corroded reinforcing bars on the underside of the pool deck; corrosion of the pool piping and pump components; and staining of...

Services:Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Education - K-12

Keywords:Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Condition Assessment, Construction Administration, Corrosion, Deterioration, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Natatorium, Nondestructive Testing, Petrography

War Memorial Pool Complex

Cambridge, MA

Project Contacts: Paul Kelley, Matthew Sherman

The pool complex at the War Memorial Recreation Center was designed and built around 1955. The complex comprises three separate pools (a 31 ft diameter circular beginner’s pool, the 43 ft by 76 ft main pool, and a 33 ft by 41 ft diving well...

Services:Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation

Markets:Sports & Entertainment

Keywords:Concrete Rehabilitation, Condition Assessment, Corrosion, Deterioration, Field Testing, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Natatorium, Nondestructive Testing, Petrography

Philipsburg Elementary School

Philipsburg, PA

Project Contacts: Peter Nelson

Completed in 2004, Philipsburg Elementary School is a two-story structure with epoxy terrazzo flooring installed on the concrete floor slabs in corridors and other common areas. Shortly after construction, school personnel observed liquid-filled...