Ground-up 5-story Holiday Inn Express Hotel

OWNER: Hiten Suraj | ARCHITECT: Eric Jacobsen

• Used 2 story steel and concrete podium topped with wood construction to reduce material costs
• Investigated and utilized a unique foundation system (geopiers) to cut excavation and material costs by 50%
• Provided peer-reviews of all disciplines to minimize plan check comments

• YEAR: 2019
• Architect: Marek Stoklosa
• Structural design of an office building
• Estimated construction cost: $250K
• Delivered the structural engineering for a new ground-up three-story office building
• The engineering inclusive of the seismic retrofit
• 9,500 sq. ft.

• Structural Engineering for Vertical and Horizontal addition of 5,000 sq.ft. of residential space to an existing mixed-use structure with historical facade.
• Engineering design optimized to ensure preservation of historic facade
• Collaboration with Architect to reduce steel moment frame linear footage by approximately 70% while maintaining architectural vision and structural stability

• YEAR: 2019
• Estimated Construction Cost: $15M
• Addition of a new building to a hotel
• Structural engineering for an entirely new six-story concrete building connected to an existing hotel
• Area of 46,000 sq. ft.

• Commercial tenant improvement
• Structural reinforcement

• Delivered the structural engineering for the tenant improvement of the Barcha restaurant
• Plans included the awning, heater, and lights on the terrace

• Architectural drafting and structural engineering for a seismic retrofit
• Added five isolated footings, shear wall on the roof of the shop and added two new beams at the garage level on either side of the entrance
• Engineering for 8 new skylights on the roof and reinforcing the existing truss with Simpson clips, holdowns and plates

• Tenant improvement of a dental clinic facility
• Delivered the architecture and civil engineering

• MEP Engineering and Architecture (via partner) for an Tenant Improvement existing 2-story office and warehouse building of 9,840 sq. ft.
• Architectural plan to make the offices ADA complaint
• Modified and new plumbing and electrical to support Tenant Improvement of 2nd floor
• Equipment Anchorage calculations

• Tenant improvement of an 6,864 sq. ft. building housing a ballet academy
• Delivered the architecture (via a partner), structural engineering and energy permit (Title 24) calculations

• Delivered MEP services for this commercial tenant improvement

• Delivered the engineering plans
• Preschool with playground

• Tenant improvement of a spa centre
• Delivered the architecture (via a partner) and energy permit (Title 24) calculations

• Delivered the structural engineering, MEP, and architecture

• Tenant improvement of an office
• Delivered the architecture (via a partner) and structural engineering

• Delivered the structural engineering, architecture (via a partner) for new partition walls and equipment foundation
• Delivered electrical plans for the installed machinery

• Structural Engineering of a the patio roof of the cafe