San Francisco, CA
Murano, 3131 Pierce Street
Scope/Solutions
At the corner of Pierce and Lombard Streets, the ribbons of custom perforated aluminum panels on Murano’s facades represent the undulating movement through the surrounding neighborhoods. The five-story, concrete-framed building includes twenty-two condominiums with private balconies, a landscaped roof terrace, ground-floor retail, and one level of below-grade parking. SGH provided building enclosure consulting services for the project.
SGH consulted on the building enclosure design, including below-grade and podium waterproofing, roof terrace and balcony waterproofing, aluminum-framed window walls and storefront, cement plaster-clad wall assemblies, and roofing. Highlights of our work include:
- Helping select and evaluating substitutions for roofing, waterproofing, and wall cladding systems
- Reviewing the building enclosure design, identifying opportunities to improve performance, and evaluating substitutions
- Developing details to integrate the various systems, including custom expansion joint assemblies at interfaces with existing structures
- Specifying and witnessing window mockups constructed in a laboratory and in the field for evaluating performance, coordinating installation sequencing, and confirming tolerances and constructability
- Providing construction-phase services, including reviewing contractor submittals, providing isometric sketches and cladding models to help the installers, observing ongoing construction and field performance testing of cladding and fenestrations, and helping address field conditions
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Project Summary
2021
Completion Date
44K
Project Size
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Building Enclosures
Markets
Commercial | Residential | Mixed-Use
Client(s)
Handel Architects | Tanforan Industrial Park Lombard, LLC
Specialized Capabilities
Facades & Glazing | Roofing & Waterproofing
Key team members
Additional Projects
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One California Street
SGH performed a condition assessment of the precast panels and found corroding reinforcing was causing the concrete panels to crack and spall. We subsequently developed a facade rehabilitation program using a custom designed mortar to match the existing concrete.