The “bathtub” slurry wall at the World Trade Center (WTC) site survived when the WTC towers collapsed in 2001, making it a symbol of endurance. WTC site redevelopers wanted a section of the wall incorporated and exposed within the...
The shopping mall at 4104 Harlem Avenue was constructed in the mid-1950s. The owner wanted to reinvent the Harlem Irving Plaza by subdividing the former Carson Pirie Scott department store into multiple tenant spaces and adding elevators and...
With its new cafés, Capital One offers banking services in a fun, community coffee shop setting. The design for the Hyde Park café brings this experience to Chicago’s South Side along the rejuvenated 53rd Street corridor. The...
Hobbs Brook Management wanted to renovate their 1989 office building at 81 Wyman Street and undertook a project to replace the exterior cladding and alter the interior of the three-story structure. SGH provided structural and building enclosure...
In 2015, the Staten Island Museum reopened in the renovated Building A at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden and shortly after turned to rehabilitating Building B to accommodate its expansion. Building B, one of five Greek...
Cedarmere was named by William Cullen Bryant, who purchased the forty-acre property in 1843. Bryant constructed the mill in 1862 in the Gothic Revival style. Page Ayres Cowley Architecture was leading a major restoration to the mill and observed...
The Point LIC, a new commercial development, reinvents two seven-story industrial buildings as the Paragon and Blanchard. The renovated buildings offer open office floor plans, ground-level retail, and other amenities. SGH provided building...
The 1931 building was originally known as the Southern California Edison Building and served as the company’s headquarters. The building’s new owners wanted to renovate the fourteen-story structure to update the building for modern...
Lowell House, a neo-Georgian building constructed in 1930, is Harvard University’s largest undergraduate residence hall. As part of a larger dormitory renewal program, the university undertook a two-year project at Lowell House to renovate...
This insurance company relocated their headquarters to the Aon Center, a prominent building in Chicago’s skyline, and wanted to connect their space on the 32nd and 33rd floors with a feature stair. SGH analyzed the existing structure,...
The patients at Children’s National Health System’s main campus in Washington, D.C., needed fresh air. Going outside, however, is not always simple for hospitalized children, many of whom are not fully mobile or are connected to...
On 29 September, Gustavo Tumialan and Jared Brewe gave presentations as part of a six-part webinar series presented by the American Concrete Institute (ACI). The series, “Guide to ACI 562-16 Repair Code: Design Examples,” reviewed the...
By: Gustavo Tumialan, William Gold, Nestore Galati, Andrea Prota
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 440 has recently published a design guide for strengthening of masonry with FRP systems. This paper summarizes and provides comments on the design protocols recommended by ACI 440 for flexural and...