Hale Kalele is a public-private partnership to transform a State-owned, underutilized urban parcel into a mixed-use development featuring a 20-story affordable rental tower, two-story Juvenile Center, and six-level parking structure. To support the project’s long-term needs durability of the tower and its units was of utmost consideration, so an all-reinforced concrete system utilizing tunnel-form construction… Read More

Ulana is a mixed-use development of approximately 968,783 SF and is part of The Howard Hughes Corporation’s 60-acre Ward Village master-planned community in urban Honolulu. The project includes a 584,296 SF, 42-story residential tower and a detached 383,935 SF, 8-story parking structure with commercial space at ground level. The project is designated as reserved housing… Read More

This 40-story mixed-use residential and retail project of approximately 1.2 million SF is part of The Howard Hughes Corporation’s 60-acre Ward Village master-planned community in urban Honolulu. The project includes a 33-story residential tower atop a seven-story parking and retail podium. The retail component, anchored by a 60,000+ SF Whole Foods Market, is on levels… Read More

Located in Lahaina on Maui’s Ka’anapali coast, this resort project was originally conceived in 2006 and site and infrastructure and foundation work began in 2008. Vertical construction was postponed soon after foundation construction began due to the Great Recession, however the project was revived in 2014 with a similar layout. The hotel building consists of… Read More

Wave One is a 600-foot tall, 41-story structure with one and one-half basement floors dedicated to parking, 16 floors of podium structure, and two towers joined together at the top eight floors. The podium levels consist of split floors for retail, movie theaters up to the 7th floor, and floors 7 to 13 are solely… 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

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

This affordable residential development includes a 19-story tower and a standalone five-story parking structure, wrapped by retail on one side and two-level townhomes on the other. The tower uses concrete tunnel-form construction for the typical apartment floors that is reconfigured at the ground floor to provide more open retail and community meeting spaces along the… Read More

This eight-story, 650,000 SF competitively won design-build parking garage includes over 1,700 stalls and is connected to the existing interisland terminal garage at the 7th and 8th floors by a two-level 150-foot structural steel bridge designed to accommodate traffic as well as moving walkways for pedestrians. To create a competitive advantage, the team evaluated several… Read More