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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

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Seismic Isolation

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Bahá’í House of Worship of South America

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

Crossing 900

Ryman Healthcare Retirement Village

Eagle Rock Enrichment Plant

China Basin Landing, 185 Berry Street