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...
The six-story Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus houses classrooms, lecture halls, offices, and a below-grade research core. The cladding consists of a 45,000 sq ft rain screen comprised of approximately 2,500...
MIT’s Main Group Buildings, dedicated in 1916, include Building 10 with its prominent limestone- and copper-clad Great Dome. SGH investigated leakage into the Barker Library below the Great Dome and developed a durable repair solution...
At 140 ft long and 40 ft high, the Museum of the Bible is one of the largest museums in Washington. The privately funded project provides a repository for thousands of biblical and historical artifacts in a repurposed and expanded 1922 brick...
Previously a YMCA, the base structure for 1701 Rhode Island Avenue NW was repurposed for use as an office building, with new interiors and a modern building enclosure. The seven-story building offers tenants numerous amenities, including a...
Lowell House, a neo-Georgian building constructed in 1930, is Harvard University’s largest undergraduate residence hall. As part of a larger dormitory renewal program, the university undertook a two-year project at Lowell House to renovate...
The development, which replaces the former Washington Post building, gets its signature look with corrugated, pre-patinated copper and glass curtain walls and three crisscrossing skybridges with vertical copper sunshades spanning over the plaza...
The Providence Public Library includes the original 1900 renaissance masonry building and the 1953 neoclassical Empire Street Addition. SGH investigated the condition of the building enclosures, prioritized repair recommendations, and identified...
The monumental dome on the New Hampshire State House is gilded in gold leaf. After regilding in the early 1990s, the gold leaf started discoloring. The state wanted to understand the cause of discoloration and identify any inherent problems prior...
The original museum opened in Golden Gate Park in 1895. Damaged beyond repair by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the building was demolished in 2000 to make way for a new 292,000 sq ft building containing 116,000 sq ft of gallery and...
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...
Copper roofing has been used for centuries, particularly on ornate institutional or historical buildings where access and roof maintenance is impractical. When fully soldered, copper roofing can provide a watertight, durable roof with a decades-...
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...
Abstract:Copper is an expensive and labor-intensive material for flat roofs and gutter liners, which must be fully soldered to remain watertight. When successfully designed and installed, copper roof assemblies can provide decades of service....