Frank Gehry designed the four-story, cement plaster-clad building as the headquarters for the Rouse Company. The building, which opened in 1974, features several tiered terraces with wooden trellises. As part of renovation project to...
To accommodate the increasing student population, Bowdoin College sought to build two new freshmen dormitory buildings. The brick-clad dorms provide rooms for 160 students and offer common lounge space in generous hallways. The...
Tulare County needed a new courthouse to serve their growing demand for court services, consolidate court operations, and improve access and services for the southern half of the county. Located on the former site of Porterville Fairgrounds...
The granite-clad Medical Center building, built in the 1970s, is nine stories tall. The building houses the university teaching hospital, the medical school, and clinical research laboratories. SGH led an investigation of the stone...
Campbell Sports Center, located at the northernmost edge of Manhattan, serves as a gateway to the Baker Athletics Complex and is the first new athletics building commissioned by Columbia University since the 1970s. The five story, 48,000 sq...
Montgomery College was contemplating upcoming renovation work and wanted an evaluation of the building enclosure systems on several of their campus buildings. SGH investigated the exterior wall cladding systems, associated facade elements,...
Over ten years, SGH researched innovative uses of High Strength Low Alloy Vanadium (HSLA-V) steels in a variety of structural applications under the Vanadium Technology Program, an initiative sponsored by the U.S. ARL in conjunction with VPRA....
The Wadsworth Atheneum is a multi-building art museum complex built between 1842 and 1950. The atheneum suffered from water leakage that was damaging decorative plaster, threatening art storage areas, and causing extensive degradation of...
Made possible by a $30 million gift from Verna B. Dauterive, the new building at the University of Southern California (USC) brings together many of the social science disciplines. The six-level, 110,000 sq ft Dauterive Hall...
The University of Maryland wanted to expand their science facilities and provide space to promote collaboration amongst university researchers and students and nearby federal agencies with a new Physical Sciences Complex. The new building...
Abstract: Many commercial and multistory residential buildings constructed since 1960 are clad with brick masonry veneer. It is typically installed over steel stud or concrete masonry backup walls. After several decades in service, many of these...
Thermal bridging in buildings can contribute to a multitude of problems, including, but not limited to, added energy use during heating and cooling seasons and interior surface condensation problems.|Thermal bridges are discontinuities in any...
Abstract: Providing for ventilation airflow behind wall claddings has been shown to reduce the risk of condensation due to sun-driven moisture when rain wets an absorptive exterior surface and solar radiation subsequently drives this moisture...
One of the most challenging details facing structural designers is the support of a building façade. The complexity of this attachment is not to be overlooked, and the entire design team should be engaged in developing a strategy for supporting...
Stabilization and performance improvements for existing brick masonry walls can be achieved through shotcrete application, especially walls that are deteriorated due to freeze-thaw or fire damage. Several factors must be considered in selecting...
Glass-and-metal curtain walls can provide an attractive, durable and cost-effective cladding solution, but in many buildings, they are plagued with problems ranging from air and water leakage to falling trim covers. The first two articles in this...
Abstract: Glass-and-metal curtain walls can provide an attractive, durable and cost-effective cladding solution, but in many buildings, these wall systems are plagued with problems ranging from air and water leakage to falling trim covers. The...
Exterior wall construction has evolved during the past century and a half. We have moved from massive masonry walls that support the floors of a building to slender walls that hang off the slabs. The heavy load-bearing masonry walls of the past...
Abstract: Glazing - The vast majority of new windows, curtain walls and skylights for commercial building construction have insulating glazing for energy efficiency and comfort. This glazing Chapter is complementary to the other fenestration...
Abstract: Lack of integration between windows and the building weather-resistive barrier is a systemic problem in many buildings that often leads to leakage within a wall system. Consequences of improper integration typically include leakage,...