Dedicated to the Fallen Five—the five service members killed in a 2015 terrorist attack—the suspended Wreath of Honor is supported by five limestone pillars representing each one of them. The memorial, designed by RE:site, creates a...
Named for the wife of Loyola alumni and basketball player Al Norville, the Alfie Norville Practice Facility will offer state-of-the-art training spaces for the university’s athletes. The facility features basketball/volleyball courts on two...
Designed by Gensler, Catalog is a five-story dining, retail, and entertainment hub located at the base of the 1970s Willis Tower. The repositioning project, which redevelops 388,900 sq ft of amenity space in this Chicago icon, also includes three...
As part of the Your New Blue program, the Chicago Transit Authority is re-envisioning fourteen Blue Line stations. The new Belmont entrance, inspired by a waterfall from the bygone Olson Park, is animated when it rains and water cascades down the...
In October 2013, the Philippines experienced a large (magnitude 7.2) earthquake and major typhoon in a span of three weeks. These events caused significant damage throughout the island chain. As part of the rebuilding process, actLAB, a New...
Site Double, designed by Milligram-Office and commissioned for the 2012 Venice Biennale, translates the idea of a single-family house in Detroit (near the Architect's studio) to a Venetian gallery. Site Double, which invokes the Venice Arsenale,...
The owner of 160 East Elgin Street wanted to revitalize the streetscape at their twenty-eight-story tower by creating a striking front entryway. The renovation includes a curved and insulated structural glass wall, which is approximately 35 ft...
The university wanted to bring their design programs – Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and Building and Construction Technology – together in one creatively designed building exemplifying their focus on...
Let the Public Play, a project administered by the Cambridge Arts Council, brings playful environments to the city’s parks and playgrounds. As part of this project, Adam Simha, a Cambridge-based artist and metalsmith, designed Tubular Bells...
The 2015 exhibition, Bigger than a Breadbox, Smaller than a Building, featured large-scale installations in the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Space. SGH provided structural engineering and materials science services for the three main...
This work studied the cyclic shear performance of connectors used for sidelap and structural connectors in bare steel deck roof diaphragms. Typical bare steel deck roof diaphragms include thousands of such connections, and knowledge of the...
The AISC Seismic Provisions require that continuity plates in a special moment frame (SMF) welded moment connection be connected to the column flanges by complete-joint-penetration groove welds. Tran et al. (2013) have proposed a design procedure...
Structural designs that include post-installed, bolted connections between steel and concrete elements can lead to challenging field issues and RFIs because: -The steel and concrete elements are typically fabricated and installed by different...
In regions of high seismic risk, severe earthquakes are rare events, affecting typical building sites at intervals of hundreds of years. Given the infrequent return period, it is economically impractical to design structures to resist such rare...
"Break elements" were developed to efficiently and accurately capture progressive failures of components and connections with temperature dependent properties for use in finite-element models of structures. These elements were used to...
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the collapse of three very tall buildings at New York's World Trade Center, some members of the public, building officials, legislators and engineers have stated a belief that present...