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Bahá’í House of Worship of South America

Santiago, Chile

Project Contacts: Amy Hackney, James Parker

Designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects, the Chile Baha’i House of Worship sits on a hillside set against the Andes Mountains. At nearly 100 ft high, the temple features nine entrances, welcoming worshipers from all...

Services:Building Enclosure Design, Materials Design, Structural Design

Markets:Religious

Keywords:Award Winning, Base Isolation, Glass and Glazing, High-Performance/Advanced Enclosures, International, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, Materials Analysis, Materials Testing for Design, Religious, Seismic Isolation, Signature Project, Spaceframe/Shell Structure, Stone, Structural Glass

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), East Station Plaza, Danseurs (Dancing Ladies)

Union City, CA

Project Contacts: John Sumnicht

Union City sought to develop a civic plaza with a featured centerpiece and commissioned a terraced fountain with three bronze Danseurs on platforms positioned within the fountain. With the fountain located only 0.6 mi northeast from the Hayward...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Cultural

Keywords:Art Work, Award Winning, Base Isolation, Seismic Isolation

Crossing 900

Redwood City, CA

Project Contacts: Kenneth Klein, James Mendygral

Adjacent to the Redwood City Caltrain station, Crossing 900 includes two mid-rise office buildings sharing a landscaped podium over retail space and below-grade parking. The Level 4 podium connects the two towers, which are seismically separated...

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Below-Grade, Below-Ground Waterproofing, Construction Administration, Office, Podium, Retail, Roofing, Seismic Isolation, Waterproofing

Ryman Healthcare Retirement Village

Petone, New Zealand

Project Contacts: Ronald Mayes, Kevin Moore

Located in Petone, the site of the new Ryman Healthcare Retirement Village has a challenging combination of liquefiable soils with close proximity to a fault line. To protect the new development during seismic events, the lead structural engineer...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Base Isolation, Concrete, Nonlinear, Seismic Isolation, Senior Housing

Eagle Rock Enrichment Plant

Bonneville County, ID

Project Contacts: Said Bolourchi, William Konicki

AREVA sought to build a uranium enrichment plant with six separation building modules (SBM), each to be supported on base isolators and located on either side of a central special moment resistance frame (SMRF) equipment hallway structure. ...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Nuclear

Keywords:Base Isolation, Concrete, Concrete-Precast, Peer Review, Seismic Isolation, Slab

China Basin Landing, 185 Berry Street

San Francisco, CA

Project Contacts: Ronald Mayes, John Sumnicht

The client wanted to expand their three-story 300,000 sq ft office building at 185 Berry Street. The existing structure could only accommodate a one-story, 50,000 sq ft vertical addition without further retrofit. By applying base isolation...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Office

Keywords:Addition, Award Winning, Base Isolation, Seismic Engineering and Retrofit, Seismic Isolation