The Richardson Olmsted Campus

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Solution

The Richardson Olmsted Campus

Buffalo, NY

Service: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation
Market: 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

Client

Goody Clancy Associates

Completion

2017

Awards

2019 Engineering Excellence Bronze Award, American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts
2018 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award, National Trust for Historic Preservation
2017 Preservation Award for Neighborhood Conservation, Preservation Buffalo Niagara
The Richardson Olmsted Campus

Photo by Dylan Buyskes / Onion Studio

The Richardson Olmsted Campus
The Richardson Olmsted Campus

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 designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. SGH helped prepare a historic structures report (HSR) and subsequently designed structural and building enclosure repairs for the adaptive reuse of three buildings into a high-end boutique hotel.