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Award Winning Civic Center
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The
Lakewood Civic Center, with RWC as the structural engineer-of-record, recently
received ACI's Award of Excellence for Public Buildings. The large municipal
complex - developed and built by Opus Northwest and designed by Barker Rinker
Seacat Architects - serves as the cornerstone for a large variety of functions,
including office/retail/entertainment, in a town center atmosphere. Structurally,
the project meshes together several systems of precast and cast-in-place
concrete with structural steel framing. Located along one side of a central
landscaped pedestrian plaza is a city administration building with a two-story
council chambers. On the opposite side of the plaza sets a 104,000 square
foot office building and a 40,000 square foot state-of-the-art, stage-production
theater. All building structures and the pedestrian plaza were constructed
above a lower level parking garage accessed from a main city street which
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Blast
Resistive Courthouse Complex |
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Helena,
MT's new Federal Courthouse and Office Complex consists of two cutting-edge
structures - Building One houses federal court rooms and related spaces,
and Building Two serves as an office complex. The superstructure framing
for both consists of structural steel for the upper floors and reinforced
concrete for the main level. The foundation system for the structures has
concrete foundation walls and columns supported on driven steel piles. With
security a major concern for Federal buildings since the Oklahoma City terrorist
attack, the design team of The Allred Group (architect) and RWC (structural
engineer) in conjunction with the developer/builder SDA, Inc., incorporated
several innovative structural safeguards into the Helena facility. |
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Included were sheet-metal mesh backing in exterior walls and comprehensive structural
redundancy - destruction of a column or beam would not result in structural
failure since adjacent structural elements will absorb the required forces. |
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5 The Nautilus |
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