Repurposing is the ultimate approach to sustainable design – the full recycling of a building for a new use. This article describes the conversion of the existing Aloha Tower Marketplace into student lofts and facilities for Hawaii Pacific University.

Located on Ford Island at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, Building 26A was constructed in 1935 for an aviation storehouse and an airplane hangar for the Navy’s Fleet Air Base. The facility survived the surprise December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that took 2,403 American lives and in the 75 years since has… Read More

BASE’S THE RITZ-CARLTON RESIDENCES WAIKIKI BEACH, PHASE 1 WINS TOP POST-TENSIONING INSTITUTE AWARD MOUNT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS – MAY 1, 2017 – Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc. (BASE) has announced that The Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki Beach, Phase 1 was awarded 2017 Project of the Year by the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI). The PTI awards are given… Read More

Imagine reading the front page of your daily newspaper to find out the current bed availability or the number of people on the waiting list for the only hospital in town. Now imagine it is a necessary announcement because this hospital is almost always at full capacity and that the next closest U.S. hospital is… Read More

Pacifica is a 46-story, 830,000 SF mixed-use high-rise in the heart of Honolulu, Hawaii. This live, work, play environment has 41 residential floors over a 5-story podium consisting of commercial spaces at ground level, 10 half levels of parking structure, and a recreation deck at the top of the podium. Every developer is challenged to… Read More

Cover story about Steve Baldridge, BASE founder and president. Read about how a kid from a rough working-class neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago created a premier boutique structural engineering firm.

The Pearl Harbor Visitor Center is a facility of approximately 55,000 SF of shaded or enclosed space, more than doubling the size of the original visitor center. The original Visitor Center was completed in 1980 and constructed in an area created by land reclamation in the 1940’s and was constructed on a foundation system that… Read More

The Trump International Hotel & Tower at Waikiki Beach Walk is a 38-story luxury hotel and condominium. This highly desirable address set a world record for sales, selling all 464 units in eight hours for a total of more than $700 million. The location posed several challenges — severe site constraints, building height and envelope… Read More

We discuss taking a multi-hazard approach to progressive collapse mitigation which involves the integration of progressive collapse, seismic and wind load resistance into a single structural system. The primary goal is to provide, where possible, a lateral load resisting system that can perform “double duty,” simultaneously addressing both lateral and progressive collapse requirements.