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Whiskey Row, Main Street

Louisville, KY

Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski, Joseph Zona

Whiskey Row comprises six adjacent historic distillery buildings on Louisville’s Main Street that were abandoned and left to deteriorate for many years. The four-story buildings, constructed between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, feature...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Facadism, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Brick, Preservation Technology , Shoring/Temporary Structure, Structural Stabilization

The Richardson Olmsted Campus

Buffalo, NY

Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski, Erik Farrington, Pedro Sifre

Designed by H.H. Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1870s, the 203-acre Richardson Olmsted Campus began as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. The 38-building site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was...

Services:Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Mixed-Use

Keywords:Adaptive Reuse, Award Winning, Condition Assessment, Historic, Hospital, Masonry, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Revit/BIM, Shoring/Temporary Structure, Structural Stabilization, Structural Strengthening

Standard Shoring Designs

Various, MA

Project Contacts: Scott DiFiore, Bryan Strohman

To help them construct utility trenches, Bond Brothers needed standard shoring designs for temporary excavation support systems. SGH developed a library of standardized designs for use at project locations with varying site conditions.

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Other

Keywords:Construction Engineering, Excavation Support, Foundation, Geotechnical, Shoring/Temporary Structure

Government Center Station

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Rosalind Imbaro

Although the station was modified many times since opening in 1898, Government Center Station lacked accessibility. The Improvements Project includes installing new elevators from the surface to the Green and Blue Line levels, renovating...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Transportation

Keywords:Below-Grade, Construction Consulting, Construction Engineering, Construction Staging, Metal-Steel, Shoring/Temporary Structure

Golden 1 Center

Sacramento, CA

Project Contacts: Kevin Moore

The Sacramento Kings’ new arena is in the heart of downtown Sacramento. To tie the building to the surrounding neighborhood, the arena’s design blends inside and out with large overhead doors, an outdoor terrace, and aluminum cladding...

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Sports & Entertainment

Keywords:Award Winning, Construction Engineering, Construction Staging, Curtain Wall, Plaza, Roofing, Roofing, Low-Sloped, Shoring/Temporary Structure, Waterproofing

Harvard Towers Parking Garage

Cambridge, MA

Project Contacts: Greggrey Cohen, Gustavo Tumialan

Constructed around 1962, Harvard Towers includes a two-level, below-grade parking garage below the ground-level plaza. The intermediate elevated deck in the cast-in-place concrete parking structure suffered from widespread deterioration in the...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Parking

Keywords:Award Winning, Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation, Concrete-Cast-in-Place, Construction Engineering, Parking Structure, Residential, Shoring/Temporary Structure

Navy Pier Ferris Wheel

Chicago, IL

Project Contacts: Matthew Johnson

The existing Ferris wheel has been an iconic symbol of Chicago’s Navy Pier for many years. In 2015, the mayor and pier officials announced plans to replace the Ferris wheel with a larger one. SGH assisted James McHugh Construction Co. by...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Sports & Entertainment

Keywords:Award Winning, Concrete-Precast, Construction Engineering, Crane/Lift, Shoring/Temporary Structure

Massachusetts State House Time Capsule

Boston, MA

Project Contacts: Dominic Kelly, Susan Knack-Brown

On 4 July 1795, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Scollay led the procession from the old Massachusetts State House to the site of the new State House to lay the granite cornerstone. In the excavated soil below the cornerstone, they...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation, Materials Investigation, Structural Investigation

Markets:Government

Keywords:Historic, Monitoring, Monitoring, Construction, Preservation Technology , Shoring/Temporary Structure, Stone, Stone-Granite

Brentford Hall

Cambridge, MA

Project Contacts: Scott DiFiore, William Konicki

Constructed in the 1920s, Brentford Hall is a condominium building with load-bearing, mass-masonry walls supported by shallow footings. The abutter to Brentford Hall planned to demolish its existing wood-framed building and construct a new...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Residential - Condominium

Keywords:Adjacent Construction, Demolition, Excavation Support, Foundation, Geotechnical, Monitoring, Monitoring, Construction, Shoring/Temporary Structure, Underpinning

Franklin County Courthouse

Greenfield, MA

Project Contacts: Dominic Kelly

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted to explore options for renovating and expanding the 1931 Franklin County Courthouse building. One proposed design concept involved retaining three existing masonry facades and demolishing the remainder of...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Government

Keywords:Addition, Condition Assessment, Construction Engineering, Courthouse, Government, Masonry-Brick, Masonry-Transitional, Shoring/Temporary Structure