With bedrock more than 200 ft below street level, the fifty-eight-story Millennium Tower, like most downtown high-rises, is founded on piles driven through soft, compressible clay soils deposited by the San Francisco Bay and extending into a...
Serving as headquarters for the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Building 1500 is a three-story concrete structure. The circa 1930s building is on the National Register of Historic Places. SGH provided blast resistance design and...
Prompted by increased electronic record keeping, the Andover-based building was selected for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program, which called for a model workplace. For this project, the GSA sought to...
Fickett Towers is a twelve-story senior living building designed to meet the 1970 Los Angeles Building Code. The structure is a reinforced concrete bearing shear wall structure with flat slab construction supported by a reinforced concrete pile...
When the law offices of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP moved into the block-long, ten-story office building at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, they realized that the space suffered from a lack of natural light at the interior of the building. Carpenter...
Several cities have passed mandatory ordinances requiring owners of certain buildings to undergo a structural screening process to determine if their building contains a potential “soft story” at its lowest level, typically...
In 2009, the City of Oakland passed a mandatory ordinance (No. 12966) requiring owners of certain buildings to undergo structural screening to determine if the building contains a potential “soft story” at its lowest level, typically comprised of large open areas compared to the stories above.
The “soft story” wood frame retrofit ordinances adopted by many California cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco are the largest of their kind. These ordinances mitigate a deficiency known to cause collapse in past...