St. Ambrose University undertook its largest capital project in the university’s 135-year history by constructing a new, 80,000 sq ft wellness and recreation center. The project—including a new fieldhouse, exercise areas, dance...
Claremont McKenna upgraded their gymnasium by constructing a new athletics and events center. The pavilion is constructed over an occupied basement and features state-of-the-art facilities, including an arena gymnasium, a second recreational...
Working for the University of Notre Dame, SGH completed a feasibility study (Phase 1) to determine how to support and enclose a 5 MV vertical ion accelerator over an existing physics laboratory. The accelerator, weighing about 24,000...
The building at 410 Broadway is a New York City Landmark built in 1915 and constructed with wood floor joists that frame to masonry bearing walls more than 2 ft thick. The new tenant, Tribeca Oncology, planned to establish a radiation-oncology...
Salem State University sought to demolish their existing library and reuse the site for other purposes. SGH developed structural demolition documents and provided construction phase services for the demolition of the six-story, 130,000 sq...
The two-level Reservoir Place parking garage offers 700 parking spaces below three levels of occupied office space and is critical to daily facility operations. The below-grade garage, constructed in the mid-1980s, is a Filigree structure...
VillaSport, a premier health club facility, offers the latest in programs, equipment, and services. The health club draws in members with an enjoyable design that includes an open floor plan and natural light. SGH was the structural engineer of...
Excavation and heavy civil construction in urban environments directly impact abutters and existing adjacent structures. Noise and dust create nuisance concerns, while demolition, excavation and dewatering can cause earth movement and structural...
New construction in metropolitan areas has direct impacts on immediate neighbors and abutters. While noise and dust are generally nuisance concerns, demolition, vibrations, excavation, and dewatering can cause structural damage to...
Abstract: This paper describes an evaluation of the lateral load-resisting system of an existing monolithic, cast-in-place, reinforced concrete (RC) stadium structure completed in the early 1930s. A major renovation/expansion of the stadium...
By: Michael Hughes, Masoud Sanayei, James A. Moore, Jeffrey A. Zapfe, Robert D. White
A 4-story scale model building was designed and constructed for the purpose of predicting vibration levels at each floor. Mathematical models of column, beam, and slab elements were developed and combined, forming a system model. Each component...
Abstract: The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be a 21.5-m equivalent aperture optical-infrared telescope located in Chile. The segmented mirror surface consists of seven 8.4-m diameter mirrors. The telescope structure will be inside a...
Gone are the days of offices with tall partitions, heavy file cabinets, and large, filled bookshelves, and with them has gone the inherent redundancy of office buildings against floor vibration. Although sometimes mistakenly associated with the...