The brick masonry chimney at the Manchester Youth Development Center (YDC) power plant is an 80 ft tall structure that vents the facility’s boilers. Constructed in the first half of the 20th century, the chimney exhibited signs of severe...
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...
The Old City Jail, constructed in several stages between 1796 and 1859, was used as a jail until 1939. The jail stood unoccupied for decades until it was acquired by the School of the Building Arts, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the...
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...
The Boston Public Library, an Italian Renaissance Revival building completed in 1895, was designed by McKim Mead & White. The Boston Public Library needed a complete restoration. SGH was the structural engineer and building enclosure...
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...
The High Level Sewer (HLS) is a masonry conduit built around 1901. Following a large rainstorm, the HLS developed internal pressure that caused water to overflow through the manholes and flood parts of the Roslindale neighborhood. The manholes...
The Old State House in Boston, originally constructed in 1713, was largely reconstructed in 1748 after a fire. The building served as the colony seat prior to the American Revolution, is a National Historic Landmark, and is part of Boston...