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Whiskey Row, Main Street

Louisville, KY

Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski, Joseph Zona

Whiskey Row comprises six adjacent historic distillery buildings on Louisville’s Main Street that were abandoned and left to deteriorate for many years. The four-story buildings, constructed between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, feature...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Facadism, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Brick, Preservation Technology , Shoring/Temporary Structure, Structural Stabilization

350 Bush Street

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Craig Allender, Kenneth Klein, Carolyn Searls, Taryn Williams

The development at 350 Bush Street incorporates the existing 1920s Mining Exchange with a nineteen-story, glass-clad tower and a five-story, mixed-use building. The complex offers tenants outdoor space at many levels, including setback roof decks...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation

Markets:Office

Keywords:Award Winning, Below-Grade, Facadism, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Office, Plaza, Preservation Technology , Retail, Roofing, Structural Strengthening, Waterproofing

Atlantic (formerly Russia) Wharf

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Michael Louis

Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) combines residential, retail, and office space in one Fort Point Channel location. The project involved integrating three historic, low-rise buildings with a new mixed-use office tower. With this design, the...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Below-Grade, Below-Ground Waterproofing, Cladding / Recladding, Curtain Wall, Facadism, High Rise, Historic, LEED Projects, Office, Plaza, Skylight, Walls, Waterproofing

Contemporary Jewish Museum

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein

The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s new home in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena cultural district involved adaptive reuse of the Jessie Street Power Substation. Designed by the architectural team of Daniel Libeskind and WRNS Studio, the...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Below-Grade, New Construction, Facadism, Masonry-Brick, Metal-Steel, Monumental Buildings, Museum, Peer Review, Plaza, Waterproofing

1100 Broadway

Oakland, CA

Project Contacts: Anindya Dutta, Ronald Hamburger

The 1100 Broadway project combines the adaptive reuse of the Key System Building, which was heavily damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, with the construction of a new twenty-story building. SGH was the structural engineer for the...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Office

Keywords:New Construction, Demolition, Facadism, Frame Moment, Frame, Special Moment, High Rise, LEED Projects, Pile, Revit/BIM, Tunnel

The Savoy

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Erik Farrington, James Parker

The Savoy, originally built in the late nineteenth century, looks out to Boston’s South End historic district. Real estate developers planned to convert The Savoy to a six-story, luxury condominium building with ground-floor...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Construction Engineering, Demolition, Facadism, Structural Stabilization

Leigh Street Armory

Richmond, VA

Project Contacts: Niklas Vigener

Built circa 1895 and listed on the state and national registers, the First Virginia Volunteers Battalion Armory, also known as the Leigh Street Armory, is the oldest armory building standing in Virginia. It has significant cultural heritage as...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Award Winning, Code Compliance, Condition Assessment, Construction Administration, Facadism, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Brick, Masonry-Terra Cotta, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Structural Stabilization, Wood, Wood Frame

Odd Fellows Hall

Wakefield, MA

Project Contacts: Donald Dusenberry

Odd Fellows Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in the late 1800s as a manufacturing building with then-common post-and-beam interior framing and unreinforced brick masonry exterior walls. In 1997, when a...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Code Compliance, Construction Administration, Emergency Response, Facadism, Fire, Historic, Masonry-Brick, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Wood