Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ
8-Story Pre-cast Parking Structure
Owner: City of Phoenix Aviation Department
Engineer: Dibble and Associates Consulting Structural Engineers
Contractor: Coreslab
Winner of American Public Works Association's 2000 "Project of the Year" Award for Structures Over $10,000,000 |
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Pearl Street Parking Garage, Eugene, OR
4-Story Parking Garage with Precast Hybrid Moment Resistant Frame.
The use of the PHRMF technology represented its first application in a seismically active region for which it was designed. 95,000 square foot garage featuring 264 parking stalls.
Owner: Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugen/Partnership of Citizens Associates and Eugene Professional Building
Architect: Mark A. Engberg
Structural Engineer: Robert Englekirk Consulting Structural Engineers, Inc.
Contractor: Charles Pankow Builders |
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Roosevelt Field Mall Parking Structures, Garden City, NY
Pre-cast Hybrid Moment Resistant Frame features precast columns and beams with post-tensioned moment resistant frames.
Owner: Corporate Property Investors
Architect: HNA/Pacific
Contractor: Charles Pankow Builders
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CA SR-125 Disappearing Wall, San Diego County, CA
Pre-cast Concrete Planter Retaining Wall
Tallest Retaining Wall in CalTrans History
Owner: CalTrans
Precast Sub-Contractor: Tycor Retaining Walls
Geotechnical Engineer: Terra Costa Consulting Group |
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Stonehouse, Kauai, HI
Contractor: Caron Construction
Engineer: Baumann Engineering
Designer: Bobbi McCord
The Smith-Waterhouse family on Kauai dates back 6 generations to a missionary who came to Hawaii in the late 1800s. The Stonehouse has been a family tradition for generations, with the original having been built and furnished with materials that came around the Horn at South America. In November of 1982, Hurricane Iwa removed the roof from the Stonehouse, and Baumann Engineering designed a new roof, using what ultimately proved to be inadequate Hawaiian codes.
When Hurricane Iniki destroyed the Stonehouse in 1991, the Smith Waterhouse family approached Baumann Engineering again. This time, Baumann consulted with hurricane wind experts at Clemson University in Florida and with tsunami wave experts in Hawaii to determine the forces he would design the experimental two-way ductile frame structure to resist. The below grade first floor level was actually designed against the upward motion of tsunami waves, should the soil erode from the adverse conditions.
This project included the additional feature that much of the early construction work was done by architectural and engineering students from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. The students slept in tents on the beach by night, and received practical field experience and school units for their efforts. A local building inspector who observed the construction was quoted in a local paper: "I never thought I'd see a hurricane proof home, but...this one will still be there." |
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