The Skyhouse Dallas comprises a high-rise apartment building and adjoining eight-level parking garage. During construction of the precast, prestressed concrete parking structure, the project team observed cracks and spalling in several...
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...
The parking garage, constructed with concrete slabs on metal deck supported by steel beams and columns, includes two below-grade levels under a twenty-story office building built around 1985. SGH performed a condition assessment and...
Three parking structures serve 3 Allied Drive: a two-level, steel-framed garage with hollow core planks below the five-story building; a precast double-tee garage to the east; and a two-level, cast-in-place concrete connector between the building...
The Economic Development & Industrial Corporation (EDIC) wanted to study options for adding parking and multi-use space at Boston Marine Industrial Park. With Parcels C-1 and C-2 as the last vacant areas in the park, EDIC undertook a...
Set in the urban area of Court Square, the new 193-space parking garage was scheduled to be built following the demolition of an existing structure. The design included 4,000 sq ft of grade-level retail below the parking levels. SGH...
The owner of Reservoir Woods sought to provide additional parking space in a new garage, which consists of a basement level and four elevated parking levels with 923 parking spaces. We provided project management, coordination, and...
The owner of the Columbia Street Parking Garage needed a cost-effective design to replace the deteriorated precast concrete structure. SGH was the prime consultant, structural engineer, functional designer and precast concrete specialty...
The new garage located at 333 Glen Street adds 287 parking spaces in structured parking for the adjacent office building. We were the prime consultant, structural engineer of record, and precast piece designer for the 92,000 sq ft parking garage...
The Providence Place Mall opened in 1999 with two parking structures named Cityside and Stateside. The two garages are multi-level precast concrete structures adjoining the mall. The garages exhibited chronic, premature cracking and...
Parking structures are an integral element in our daily lives that create an interchange between our homes, our destinations, and our built environment. These structures are often incorporated into buildings, integrated into the surrounding...
Abstract: In the early 1920s, parking was becoming a significant problem in city centers. Automobile ownership had increased dramatically in the previous 10 years—from about 469,000 registered cars on the road in 1910 to about 9,241,000 in...
Abstract: This paper describes a project involving the evaluation and structural repair of post-tensioned (PT) concrete garage decks. The suspended parking deck slabs exhibited numerous signs of distress, deterioration, and other conditions which...
Abstract: This paper describes a parking garage retrofitting project where near-surface-mounted carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars were used to strengthen the reinforced-concrete decks. The garage reportedly exhibited numerous signs of...
This article is the second of two that examine the types of deterioration found in parking structures and how to repair and mitigate that damage. The authors discuss repairing delaminated or spalled concrete over corroded reinforcement,...
Abstract: This article discusses the deterioration of older concrete parking structures, the type of testing available to determine the structure's condition, and how to estimate the future performance of repair and protection alternatives....