Constructed in the late 1800s, Waverly Hall is part of the Harvard Square Historic District. The owner wanted to renovate the residential building to create modern micro apartments while maintaining its historic character. SGH worked as the...
Carrying about 360,000 commuters every day, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is an important part of the region’s transportation infrastructure. Knowing that the transit system could experience a major earthquake, BART initiated the...
Designed by Paul Murdoch Architects and constructed by Louis Ptak Construction, 2128 Sand Hill Road sits in the heart of Silicon Valley. The building offers occupants a sophisticated work environment along with many sustainable design...
The original Casa Olga building was an eight-story, reinforced concrete flat slab structure with reinforced masonry shear walls. The building served as a convalescence home until new owners purchased the building in 2012 and decided to...
Hall Equities Group wanted a modern, luxury apartment building near downtown Walnut Creek, where building heights are limited unless the public votes to allow the development to exceed the established limit. In addition, the project could...
Environment Hall serves as the new home of Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and houses academic offices, teaching spaces, laboratories, and an eighty-seat lecture hall. Designed to meet LEED Platinum standards, the...
The Carl J. Shapiro Science Center project consisted of 155,000 sq ft of new construction, 40,000 sq ft of renovated space, and infrastructure upgrades. The existing science complex comprises eight main buildings and several secondary...
The new South Terminal Building at Tocumen International Airport is 666 m long, 25 m high, encloses 75,000 m2 of space, and is separated into five zones by seismic joints. Zone 3 is a triangle shaped four-story, reinforced concrete/steel...
The Veterans Administration (VA) wished to add a four-story ambulatory care facility adjoining the existing medical center. SGH was the structural engineer for the 100,000 sq ft addition, which we designed in accordance with the VA seismic design...
ABSTRACT
Edge bearing stresses on shear-loaded anchorages can enhance the shear capacity because of the confining stresses provided by the compressive bearing stress. However, too much bearing stress can have a negative influence on...
By: Marios Mavros, Farhad Ahmadi, Pui-Shum Shing, Richard Klingner, David McLean, Andreas Stavridis
This paper presents the shake-table tests of a full-scale, two-story, reinforced masonry shear-wall structure designed by a displacement-based method. The test structure had two T-sectioned and one rectangular-sectioned wall components
By: Aviram, Ady, Dominic Kelly, Birely, Anna C., Lowes, Laura N., Lehman, Dawn E.
Abstract: The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake resulted in significant damage to many mid- and high-rise shear wall buildings. Damage data on many of these buildings was collected by post-disaster reconnaissance teams and construction drawings were...