The New York State Capitol was designed by a succession of architects, including H.H. Richardson and Leopold Eidlitz. Constructed in stages between 1870 and 1900, the building features Second Empire and Richardsonian Romanesque elements. Sporadic...
Completed in the mid-1920s, 140 New Montgomery Street is one of the early skyscrapers built in San Francisco. The Art Deco high-rise, originally known as the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, served as the headquarters for the...
The San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building and adjacent Opera House are aesthetically-similar, Beaux-Arts structures commemorating U.S. veterans of World War I. The Veterans Building provides office and meeting space for veterans...
UC San Diego is undertaking a project to renovate and rehabilitate the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Building. The building, designed by Richard George Wheeler, AIA, & Associates, was constructed circa 1970 and is designated a historic...
The Penn Museum, also known as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, houses a renowned collection of artifacts. The brick masonry structure, which was constructed in multiple campaigns starting in 1895, is one of...
The earliest section of the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House was constructed in the early 1660s by Pierre Billiou at a time when Staten Island was part of part of the Dutch colony known as New Netherland. Thomas Stillwelll added to the home in the...
Designed by Lorado Taft, the Indian stands on a high bluff in Lowden State Park as a tribute to Native Americans. The 50 ft figure, dedicated in 1911, is composed of structural concrete with an architectural concrete exterior. The concrete...
SGH has provided building enclosure and structural engineering consulting services for multiple projects, including the Mall Terrace rehabilitation as part of a task order contract for the Pentagon. The historic Mall Terrace, on the building...
Now part of Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s (PG&E’s) General Offices, The Matson Shipping Building (215 Market Street) was constructed in 1924 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The seven-story annex...
Now part of Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s (PG&E’s) General Offices, The Matson Shipping Building (215 Market Street) was constructed in 1924 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After performing an...
In this article, Daniel Clark discusses the university’s desire to address water leakage concerns at the 1940s-vintage fountain, which serves as a prominent landmark on campus. SGH performed condition assessments to investigate these...
This series of articles discusses a number of commonly encountered structural issues on renovation and restoration projects that focus on historic houses of worship, and provides guidance on ways to address them. Parts one, two, and three of this...
This series of articles discusses some of the commonly encountered structural issues with renovation projects focusing on historic buildings of this type, and provides guidance on ways to address them. Part two of this series focuses on wall...
One way historic structures vanish is through the degradation of materials from heat, air and moisture attack. Whether your historic structure is abandoned, currently occupied or in planning stages of adaptive reuse, hygrothermal analysis...
West Hall, one of the many historic campus buildings designed by Albert Kahn (one of the leading American industrial architects of his day), is located on South University Avenue on the University of Michigan’s Central Campus. The building...
By: Emily Hopps, Carl Jay, Shawmut Design and Construction, Benjamin Markham, Acentech Inc., Gary Tondorf-Dick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since 1916, the Great Dome has been the symbol of the MIT campus. In 1942, MIT covered the oculus skylight in the Dome, resulting in the Barker Library Reading Room being solely lit by electric lights and an overall dim lighting level. MIT...
A trestle that once carried iron ore through a busy Bethlehem Steel plant in eastern Pennsylvania now serves as a pathway for visitors to the reinvented SteelStacks venue. Founded in 1857 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and shuttered in 2003,...
America’s public buildings at the turn of the last century were awash in daylight – large skylights illuminated assembly spaces, stair cases, conservatories, and libraries. The motivations for this approach were both pragmatic...
By: Peter Babaian, Carl Jay, Benjamin E. Markham, Gary Tondorf Dick
Fewer iconic buildings exist than the Great Dome on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the 1940s, MIT covered the oculus in the dome, dimming the beauty of the original design. More than 60 yrs later, MIT...
This series of articles discusses some of the commonly encountered structural issues during the renovation and restoration of historic buildings of this type, and provides guidance on ways to address them. Parts one and two of this series focused...
Construction Specifier magazine published an article describing repair work to restore the iconic Cooley Memorial Fountain at the University of Michigan.
Preserving historic buildings and handing them on in good condition for the next generation is an important public service, explains SGH Principal Matthew Bronski.
SGH Senior Principal Mat Daw shares his love of structural engineering and historic preservation, discusses how he came to join SGH, and looks to the future in Washington, DC.