Pearl Harbor Visitor Center – Structural Engineering & Design Magazine

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

Reducing the Risk – Structural Engineer Magazine

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.