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 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

Constructed in two phases, this 900,000 SF project consists of two complementary 38-story luxury residential towers atop an eight-story podium that includes parking topped with several swimming pools, a café and sky lobby. The project was encumbered by height limits, easements, a large wastewater pump station, and truck maneuvering areas under the building. These demanding… Read More

A 117-unit (145-bed) assisted living and memory care community. This is the first Plaza community to offer skilled care, located on the first floor of the facility. The building consists of four floors totaling 94,302 SF and the structure is Type V-A wood-framed construction. BASE worked closely with the development team to strategically locate structural… Read More

Design-build renovation of Gate 6 at the Diamond Head Concourse of the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu to accommodate the relocation of commuter aircraft. BASE and the design-build team worked very expediently to complete the design and construction of Gate 6 for the relocation of turbo-prop carriers Island Air and Mokulele. Unfortunately, in… Read More

This six-story, 160-bed residential care facility is 89,961 SF with an additional 17,358 SF of basement parking and service area. The structure consists of structural steel composite floors with cold-formed steel roof trusses and it is designed for high seismic and hurricane wind forces using a combination of structural steel diagonal braces and concrete shear… Read More