Renovation of an existing 280,000 SF office building in Westmont, IL, into two separate modern office buildings with a combined area of approximately 180,000 SF. The new buildings consist of office space, indoor and outdoor amenity areas, support areas, and covered parking for approximately 80 vehicles. As the existing floors are post-tensioned, careful coordination was… Read More

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. Since the original visitor center was built in 1980, the differential settlement of the building caused a considerable amount of concern. Extensive geotechnical and structural studies were conducted, providing… Read More

Located on Ford Island at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Building 26A was originally constructed as an aviation storehouse and airplane hangar. Seventy-five years after Building 26A survived the surprised attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy elected to convert Building 26A into a training facility for the Center for Security Forces (CENSECFOR). This conversion entailed upgrading… Read More

This 50,000 SF addition to the original high school that opened in 1952 provides a much-needed modernization that improves school safety, security, and accessibility. The addition includes a new gymnasium, theater, concessions area, band and orchestra rooms, cafeteria, commons area, and classrooms. The design was catered to allow the school to remain open throughout construction… Read More

This $32 million competitively awarded design-build facility replaces the existing Pierce Terrace School at Fort Jackson in South Carolina and meets the Department of Defense Education Activity’s criteria for “21st Century School Design” featuring clear span construction methods to allow easier reconfiguration to meet future educational needs. The 77,000 SF school building consists of insulated… Read More

BASE was originally engaged to only provide a value engineering evaluation of the structural design for the contractor, but based on realized cost savings of several million dollars the State of Hawaii allowed BASE to take over as the structural engineer of record. This project is a four-level, 1.85 million SF facility that consolidates more… Read More

This redevelopment of an entire city block included the renovation of six existing structures and construction of two new buildings to create commercial and residential spaces. The commercial project is a collection of buildings, most of them adaptively reused to preserve the area’s history and sense of place. SALT was named after the salt ponds… Read More

BASE was the structural engineer of record and AT/FP consultant on this 74,500 SF, competitively awarded design-build project that called for 96 identical living units to house 192 soldiers in one six-story building constructed using cast-in-place concrete tunnel-forms. Progressive collapse avoidance was performed in accordance with UFC 4-023-03 and the design included integration of the… Read More

This eight-story 154-bed assisted living and memory care community consists of six floors totaling approximately 92,721 SF over a two-story parking structure of approximately 23,082 SF. The project site was wedged between two waterways and a primary urban thoroughfare with little area for setdown and staging for construction. After evaluating several structural schemes the team… Read More

Design-build of an open parking structure located on the current campus of Queens Medical Center West. The freestanding, eight-story, 180,000 GSF garage includes approximately 518 parking stalls. The structural system is cast-in-place concrete using a long-span post-tensioned garage beam system supported on isolated spread and mat foundations. BASE worked with the design-build contractor to create… Read More