The 185-bed John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital replaces the city’s 125-year-old Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. With a focus on patient and family comfort, the new 440,000 sq ft hospital features amenities such as a...
The retail development at 706 Madison Avenue is five above-grade and two below-grade stories of new construction surrounding an existing landmark building. The project included preserving the two street-facing facades and a complete interior...
Expanding a commitment to integrative medicine, the new five-story building at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Mount Zion Campus houses the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the UCSF Division of General and Internal...
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...
The William F. Connell Pavilion, an emergency facility for St. Elizabeth Medical Center, houses the latest state-of-the-art diagnostic and imaging equipment. The 44,000 sq ft structure includes a three-story entrance atrium with grand stair...
The 50,000 sq ft facility for the Southcoast Hospital oncology system provides radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging, and other oncology services to the community and offers CT scanning equipment, a brachytherapy suite, two linear accelerators,...
This 357-bed, nonprofit hospital serves the greater Rockford region, including northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. In the late 1990s, the hospital undertook and completed a facility master plan to define and carry out the hospital...
Several commercially available software packages automate the structural design process for new buildings, allowing engineers to deliver projects with unparalleled efficiency. These software packages contain structural engineering standards (e.g...
This is one of a series describing surprising lessons engineers have learned from earthquakes and, in particular, the January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake. Engineers have been learning from earthquakes for more than 100 years by observing the...
Following the M6.7 Northridge Earthquake 20 years ago, an engineer performing a post-earthquake inspection of the Santa Clarita City Hall was struck in the head by a structural bolt as he removed a ceiling tile to observe the framing.