The Physical Education (PG) Building comprises the 1980 gymnasium wing and the 1981 natatorium wing. SGH investigated several issues with the building’s exterior walls, windows, and roofs. We subsequently designed a building enclosure...
Ascent Midtown includes a 328-unit apartment tower and hotel that share a common podium with retail and below-grade parking. The complex offers many amenities, including a fitness center, a pool deck, community lounges, private balconies, and...
As California’s first indoor water park in the Anaheim area, the twelve-acre Great Wolf Lodge resort offers more than 600 hotel rooms, a three-acre indoor/outdoor water park, conference space, retail and restaurants, and other family sport...
Lynn Classical High School is a one- to three-story structure built on construction debris fill. Shortly after construction, staff observed water leakage and significant damage due to settlement of the structure. SGH investigated the causes of...
Montgomery College was contemplating upcoming renovation work and wanted an evaluation of the building enclosure systems on several of their campus buildings. SGH investigated the exterior wall cladding systems, associated facade elements,...
The historic G. Fox building, constructed circa 1917 and designed by Cass Gilbert, was the first of six buildings rehabilitated and redeveloped under the State of Connecticut’s "Six Pillars of Progress" plan for the revitalization of...
During the last ten years, the authors have investigated a number of buildings with leakage and deterioration problems associated with exterior walls clad with exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS). These systems were "barrier"...
Also published as "Retrofit of Barrier Exterior Insulation and Finish System: Methodology and Performance Assessment [EIFS]" in Repair, Retrofit, and Inspection of Building Exterior Wall Systems: ASTM STP 1493|Abstract: Barrier-EIFS (...
Abstract: Despite well-intended laboratory testing of individual materials and components, unanticipated and severe durability failures of building wall systems can occur when the system design does not adequately integrate the various materials...