Search Tags: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Project Count: 30

New York State Capitol Building Albany, NY Project Contacts: Susan Knack-Brown, Niklas Vigener

The New York State Capitol was designed by a succession of architects, including H.H. Richardson and Leopold Eidlitz. Constructed in stages between 1870 and 1900, the building features Second...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Markets: Government Keywords: Award Winning, Condition Assessment, Historic, Industrial Rope Access, Masonry, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Metal-Copper, National Register of Historic Places, Office, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Skylight, Stair, Stone- Granite, Stone-Slate, Water Leakage

140 , CA Project Contacts: Carolyn Searls

Completed in the mid-1920s, 140 New Montgomery Street is one of the early built in San Francisco. The high-rise, originally known as the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Markets: Office Keywords: Adaptive Reuse, Award Winning, Glass and Glazing, High Rise, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Terra Cotta, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Roof Replacement, Roofing, Windows San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building San Francisco, CA Project Contacts: Ronald Hamburger, Stephen Harris, Carolyn Searls

The San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building and adjacent Opera House are aesthetically-similar, Beaux-Arts structures commemorating U.S. veterans of World War I. The Veterans Building...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Markets: Cultural Keywords: Award Winning, Code Compliance, Historic, Masonry, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Metal, Metal-Steel, Monumental Buildings, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Revit/BIM, Roofing, Seismic Engineering and Retrofit, Skylight, Stone-Granite, Theater/Performing Arts

1500 K Street NW Washington, DC Project Contacts: Jeffrey Kerr, Anthony Nicastro

Constructed in the late 1920s, the office building at 1500 K experienced persistent water leakage through the below-grade garage walls, grade-level slab, and wall penetrations. After several...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Markets: Office Keywords: Below-Grade, Cracking, Parking Structure, Water Leakage Rothko Chapel Houston, TX Project Contacts: Amrish Patel

Constructed in the 1970s, this iconic nondenominational chapel was created specifically to house fourteen large-scale works by American painter Mark Rothko. As part of the Opening Spaces campaign...

Services: Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Masonry, Museum, Preservation Technology , Roofing, Skylight, Walls, Waterproofing, Windows

The Philadelphian, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue Philadelphia, PA Project Contacts: David Artigas, Vince Cammalleri

The twenty-story Philadelphian opened in 1963 directly across the street from the iconic Philadelphia Museum of Art. The mid- century modern building opened with 776 rental units, but was converted...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Investigation Keywords: Balcony, Concrete Rehabilitation, Condition Assessment, Fire Engineering, Parking Structure, Residential, Water Leakage, Windows

Stop & Shop Forest Hills, NY Project Contacts: Gregory Doelp, Sean OBrien, Amrish Patel

Shop & Stop Store #539 is constructed with a rooftop parking deck over the supermarket. The original parking deck waterproofing installed within a split-slab assembly had failed, resulting in...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Concrete Rehabilitation, Parking Structure, Retail, Water Leakage, Waterproofing Stop & Shop Brooklyn, NY Project Contacts: Sean OBrien, Amrish Patel

Shop & Stop Store #505 is a one-story building constructed with a rooftop parking deck. The parking deck is constructed with an unreinforced vehicular traffic coating over a composite concrete...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Concrete Rehabilitation, Corrosion, Parking Structure, Retail, Slab, Water Leakage

UC San Diego, Humanities and Social Sciences Building San Diego, CA Project Contacts: Amy Hackney, Nathan Wittasek

UC San Diego is undertaking a project to renovate and rehabilitate the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Building. The building, designed by Richard George Wheeler, AIA, & Associates, was...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Code Consulting, Concrete-Precast, Curtain Wall, Fire Engineering, Historic, Preservation Technology

University of Michigan, Cooley Memorial Fountain Ann Arbor, MI Project Contacts: Jeffry Ceruti, Daniel Clark

Completed in 1940, the Cooley Memorial Fountain is located on Ingalls Mall at the University of Michigan’s central campus. The fountain features Sunday Mornings in Deep Waters, a sculpture by Carl...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Art Work, Plaza, Preservation Technology , Waterproofing

Fire Station #45 Sacramento, CA Project Contacts: Craig Allender

Fire Station #45 is a two-story, H-shaped building with a wing on either side of the central apparatus bay. Shortly after construction in 2006, station personnel observed water leaking at various...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Masonry, Masonry-Brick, Plaster, Stucco, Water Leakage

Capital One Cafe, Hyde Park Chicago, IL Project Contacts: Matthew Johnson

With its new cafés, Capital One offers banking services in a fun, community coffee shop setting. The design for the Hyde Park café brings this experience to Chicago’s South Side along the...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design Keywords: Interior Renovation, Renovation, Retail, Structural Strengthening

Drexel University, Korman Center Philadelphia, PA Project Contacts: David Artigas, Sean OBrien

The Korman Center originally opened as the University Library in 1959, but was converted to multi-purpose space in the 1980s and currently houses campus technical support, a student study lounge,...

Services: Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Additions-In-fill, Award Winning, Curtain Wall, Occupied Renovation , Roof Replacement

Penn Museum Philadelphia, PA Project Contacts: David Artigas, Sean OBrien

The Penn Museum, also known as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, houses a renowned collection of artifacts. The brick masonry structure, which was constructed...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Historic, Museum, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Technology , Renovation, Thermal and Moisture Drive, Windows

Denver Art Museum, North Building Denver, CO Project Contacts: Niklas Vigener, Matthew Worster

Designed by Gio Ponti, the North Building opened in 1971. The castle-like exterior represents the building’s function of protecting the museum’s artwork. The facade is clad in glass tiles that...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Below-Grade, Below-Ground Waterproofing, Building Science, Cladding / Recladding, Museum, Roofing, Thermal and Moisture Drive, Windows

USDA National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research Peoria, IL Project Contacts: Peter Babaian, Gary Strand

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research is one of the largest federal research facilities in the country. The multibuilding complex... Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Condition Assessment, Masonry-Brick, Preservation Technology , Windows

4901 Searle Parkway Skokie, IL Project Contacts: Peter Babaian

4901 Searle Parkway was constructed in 1941 as the G.D. Searle & Co. headquarters and is, along with its 1958 and 1965 additions, now part of the Illinois Science and Technology Park. American...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Condition Assessment, Curtain Wall, Masonry- Brick, Office, Water Leakage, Windows

Staten Island Museum Expansion Staten Island, NY Project Contacts: Kevin Poulin

In 2015, the Staten Island Museum reopened in the renovated Building A at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden and shortly after turned to rehabilitating Building B to accommodate...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Preservation Technology , Structural Strengthening , Truss, Wood

Montgomery College, Student Affairs and Science Building Germantown, MD Project Contacts: Philip Frederick, Niklas Vigener

As part of a phased master plan to improve their Germantown Campus, Montgomery College undertook a project to modernize and expand the two-story building. The phased approach involved demolishing...

Services: Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Addition, Curtain Wall, Laboratory, Masonry-Brick, Photovoltaics/Solar power, Roofing

Waukesha Water Utility Garage and Maintenance Building Waukesha, WI Project Contacts: Neal Anderson, Peter Babaian, Emily OKeefe

The Waukesha Water Utility Garage and Maintenance Building, added in the early 1960s, houses equipment storage and an employee break room on the first level and an L- shaped parking deck and...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Code Compliance, Concrete Rehabilitation, Parking Structure, Water Leakage, Waterproofing

Montgomery College, Physical Education (PG) Building Germantown, MD Project Contacts: Philip Frederick, Joseph Rogers

The Physical Education (PG) Building comprises the 1980 gymnasium wing and the 1981 natatorium wing. SGH investigated several issues with the building’s exterior walls, windows, and roofs. We...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Athletic Field, Cladding / Recladding, EIFS, Roof Replacement, Roofing, Windows Elkridge Elementary School Elkridge, MD Project Contacts: Eric Ober, Joseph Rogers, Scott Silvester

Elkridge Elementary School is part of the Howard County Public School System. The one- and two-story school building, originally constructed in the early 1990s, was renovated and added to around...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Cracking, Failure Risk Assessment, Masonry, School

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago, IL Project Contacts: Peter Babaian, Delbert Bern

With five stories devoted to the art of coffee, the Chicago roastery is Starbucks’s largest store. The building, located on Chicago’s famed Magnificent Mile, was previously occupied by a large...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Condition Assessment, Curtain Wall, Facade Inspection, Window Wall

Grant R. Brimhall Public Library Thousand Oaks, CA Project Contacts: Delbert Bern, Stephen Ruggiero

The Thousand Oaks Library, later named the Grant R. Brimhall Library in honor of the former city manager, features a sawtooth roof profile and clerestory ribbon windows. Despite previous repair...

Services: Building Enclosure Investigation, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Green / Sustainable Design, Library, Roof Replacement, Roofing, Water Leakage Menorah Home and Hospital Brooklyn, NY Project Contacts: Sean OBrien

Menorah Home and Hospital wanted to update the appearance of their existing facility and improve the performance of the exterior wall system. They undertook a project to overclad the existing...

Services: Building Enclosure Design, Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Markets: Health Care Keywords: Cladding / Recladding, Curtain Wall, Hospital, Preengineered/Prefabricated/Modular

Emerson College, Little Building , MA Project Contacts: Michael Louis

Completed in 1917, the Little Building is a twelve-story structure at 80 Boylston Street, facing historic Boston Common. The building housed a variety of businesses over the years, until Emerson...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation Keywords: Cast Stone, Cladding / Recladding, Concrete- Precast, Curtain Wall, Dormitory, Preservation Technology

The Point LIC, Paragon and Blanchard Long Island City, NY Project Contacts: Matthew Normandeau, Kevin Poulin

The Point LIC, a new commercial development, reinvents two seven-story industrial buildings as the Paragon and Blanchard. The renovated buildings offer open office floor plans, ground- level retail...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design Keywords: Adaptive Reuse, Construction Administration, Deterioration, Masonry-Brick, Masonry-Terra Cotta, Masonry-Transitional, Office, Renovation, Roof Replacement, Roofing, Structural Strengthening, Windows One Bunker Hill Los Angeles, CA Project Contacts: Amy Hackney, Kevin OConnell

The 1931 building was originally known as the Southern Edison Building and served as the company’s headquarters. The building’s new owners wanted to renovate the fourteen-story...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Design , Structural Rehabilitation Keywords: Balcony, Canopy/Ceiling, Structural Strengthening , Tenant Improvements, Waterproofing

Boston University, Law Tower Boston, MA Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski

This seventeen-story structure is one of several architecturally significant, mid-century modernist concrete buildings designed by Josep Lluís Sert for Boston University’s campus. The tower's...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Materials Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Markets: Education - College & Prep Keywords: Award Winning, Concrete, Concrete Mix Design, Concrete Rehabilitation, Concrete-Cast-in-Place, Concrete- Precast, Mockup, Preservation Technology

9 Ash Street Cambridge, MA Project Contacts: Matthew Bronski, Matthew Johnson

Designed by Philip Johnson, the house at 9 Ash Street was his Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) thesis project. He studied modularization and used prefabricated wood-framed panels...

Services: Building Enclosure Rehabilitation, Structural Rehabilitation Markets: Cultural Keywords: Preservation Technology , Residential, Roofing, Window Wall, Wood