Steel Tonnage: 450
Location: Richardson, Texas
Category: Commercial
Software: SDS/2 2022i
The UTD APC Athenaeum Phase I includes the Crow Museum of Asian Art that features 16,000 sf of flexible gallery space. The building is designed with a second floor larger than the ground floor creating covered exterior spaces. This project detailed in SDS/2 can be called the ‘TRUSS project’. The biggest truss is 207 ft long & 24 ft high, weighing around 80 tons. Moreover the most unique components were the tube supports for swooping precast panels, dubbed the ‘pipe noodles’.
Steel Tonnage: 1562
Location: Rusk, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2020/2022
The project involves construction of a new three story, 234,255 GSF replacement hospital. The design consists of two inpatient units linked by two common corridors running east-west on the site with shared therapy spaces and clinical support services located in the center of each unit. There are approximately 100 single bed patient rooms. The shared administrative, building support and admissions components are located on level one. There are also 2 interior courtyards and 6 perimeter courtyards included in this project.
Tonnage: 750
Location: Frisco, Texas
Category: Commercial
Software: SDS/2 2018.20
Year: 2020/2021
The PGA of America is one of the world's largest sports organizations, composed of PGA Professionals who work daily to grow interest and participation in the game of golf. The completion of the $33.5 million new headquarters building, designed by Houston-headquartered multidisciplinary firm Page, marks a new chapter for the 106 year old PGA of America.
The new 106,600 SF PGA of America headquarters is described by Page as “an open and welcoming environment that celebrates golf and supports its development as a popular sport.” Major elements of the complex include open and private workspaces accommodating 150 employees, seminar and meeting rooms, a professional development center, communal areas including a large social staircase, a fitness facility, and a top-floor event venue with access to a large outdoor terrace.
Steel Tonnage: 1400
Location: Waco, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2 2020i
Software: 2021/2022
The Baylor Hurd Welcome Center located in Waco, Texas, features four 100ft tall conical towers making the job a real challenge in both detailing and fabrication. Each tower weighs 21.5 tons and consists of 4 sloping pipe columns connected with circular & oval rings. All that cut with 1/16" tolerance, using printed templates prepared by our team. The split screen modeling function in SDS/2 was very helpful on this job. The complex tower geometry and rolled material production process with extra shop adjustment made this project really special.
Steel Tonnage: 333 tons
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Industrial
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2021/2022
American Zinc Recycling is a leading recycler of electric arc furnace dust. The industrial repair project for their Chicago, Illinois facility featured a large settling chamber hopper and support framing with sloped beams. In addition to the challenging geometry on this project, we also stepped up to manage many design conflicts after the original EOR left the project. SDS2 was setup to meet the demanding design criteria, though several connections had to be designed by a registered connection engineer due to the significant load requirements.
Steel Tonnage: 664
Location: Abilene, Texas
Category: Building
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2019/2020
This new elementary school is the home to over 800 students in the Abilene ISD. It’s a ground-up school that sits on a 15 acre green field site. There are several new features in the building, including a "maker space" to allow creative students to bring their dreams to life, a new media center, a stage that connects the library to the cafeteria, and an outdoor classroom.
Steel Tonnage: 1100
Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2020/2021
A new school, which opened in August 2022, is located at the corner of Kostoryz Road and Saratoga Boulevard. The $175M project is funded by a bond passed in 2018. The project includes 114 classrooms in 6 academic wings, 3,000 seat multi-purpose arena, outdoor ROTC and Ag Facilities as well as indoor dance room, weight room and wrestling rooms. The campus will also have outdoor sports competition fields, tennis courts and golf practice areas.
Steel Tonnage: 300
Location: Austin, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2020/2021
The campus includes a five-story, 425,000 SF administration building, a six-level, 548,000 SF cast-in-place parking garage for 1,586 vehicles, a two-story, 13,000 SF central utility plant, a one-story, 145,000 SF warehouse building housing TxDOT’s road sign print shop which has special structural and exhaust requirements, and a one-story, 74,000 SF laboratory building.
Information and Photo Credit: Vaughn Construction
Steel Tonnage: 503
Location: Nacogdoches, Texas
Category: Community
Software: Tekla Structures
Year: 2020/2021
This project is a new College of Fine Arts building for the Stephen F. Austin State University. The structure of this building is a typical mixture of steel framing and concrete slabs. The arched facade, facilitating a neighboring building and a large truss spanning over the theater are the standout features of the job. Total weight of steel is 503 tonnes, there are around 1000 beams, 300 columns and 3 staircases.
Steel Tonnage: 450
Location: Austin, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2020/2021
Rogers-O’Brien was awarded the Austin Independent School District’s Rosedale School. The school offers tailored educational opportunities and quality instruction for children with special needs. Students are taught skills to increase their indpendence, while simulatneously increasing their self esteem, ultimately leading to a higher quality of life. The old campus was relocated to the AISD Lucy Read Pre-K Campus, where a new state-of-the-art facility was constructed. As for the structure, it features a fairly unique concave roof, that has been left uncovered from underneath, so that steel is visible to the occupants.
Steel Tonnage: 300
Location: Austin, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2010, completed 2012
Designed by Scogin and his design partner Merrill Elam, the eight-story, 252,420 SF courthouse clad in cut Texas limestone set in varying size rectangles that alternate with sections of darkly finished stainless steel. The new courthouse fronts onto Republic Square Park. The building has been referred to admiringly and jokingly as a Rubik’s cube.
The building has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as the 2016 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.
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Steel Tonnage: 1100
Location: US Virgin Islands
Category: Commercial
Year: 2006
The Landmark 360 building in Yacht Haven Grande marina in historic Charlotte Amalie Harbor in St. Thomas, USVI. St. Thomas is one of the busiest ports of call for cruise ships in the Caribbean. Awarded the coveted 5 Gold Anchor Platinum Award and four-times named the Superyacht Marina of the Year in 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2021, IGY’s Yacht Haven Grande is one of the premiere mega-yacht marinas in the world.
Client CMC
Weight 400 T
Category Public Building
Year 2009
Steel Tonnage: 550
Location: Houston, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2015
William P Hobby Airport in Houston constructed its first international terminal, transforming the airport into an international gateway to Latin America. The terminal is a two-storey building with a built-up area of 280,000-square-foot, and it features five international gates.
Besides the construction of a new international terminal, the project also included the development of a FIS facility, construction of a multilevel parking garage, expansion of the security screening checkpoint, and others.
There were a number of challenges in design and construction. While new structures were constructed and connections from the older to the newer features were being made, all airport-related traffic had to be maintained. One of the challenges was a need for the electrical room’s roof to act as a concourse floor for the new terminal building.
The new terminal building is connected to the existing terminal at both the second floor and the roof. New frame structures were strategically placed to minimize added loading to the existing members. Computer software, including RISA-3D, was used to model and analyze the existing building as well as the proposed structures. Another structural solution was to support the Cloud Room from the roof structure and then remove the columns below.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Community - Stair structure
Year: 1995
The museum is six-level structure with a reinforced concrete and structural steel frame features an exterior skin of Indiana limestone and large cast-aluminum panels, designed by architect Josef Paul Kleihues. The stairwell in the northwest corner is often cited as the buildings most interesting and dynamic artistic feature. Constructed of Black Impala granite, architect intended for the interior staircase- lit by fixtures he designed- to guide visitors through the building. The architect echoed the ellipsoid shape of the stairwell, one of the museum’s most photographed features, in the building’s elevator button panels and other architectural details.The staircase creates an impressive, if dizzying, view, and is a work of art in itself.
Location: Frisco, Texas
Category: Commercial
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2002/2003
Using structural steel to define and highlight the major spaces, the mayor of Frisco, likened the complex to a trip to the airport or opera. Defining the central circulation path, a 1,550' long sloping and curling steel roof structure spans the entire spine of the complex. Constructed of tension supported steel rod "king post" trusses resting on angled clerestory tube trusses, the roof structure undulates along the spine.
Secondary spaces are defined by unique roof forms supported by a variety of truss systems, such as tension ring and bicycle wheel trusses. An innovative winged single-truss pedestrian bridge and fan truss mark the main entrance. This two story, 947,000 SF regional retail mall with a 196,000 SF 3rd floor cinema was recognized with an Engineering Award of Excellence by the American Institute of Steel Construction AISC.
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