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IMAX Headquarters
Santa Monica, California
Description:
- Executive offices
- Three screening theaters
- Post production laboratories
- Manufacturing
- Film storage/distribution
- 60,000 sf of new steel framed floors
- Completed in 2000
Scope:
- Provided full structural engineering and construction administration services
Achievements:
- Worked with team to meet project goals
- Collaborated closely with the architect to design a sophisticated glass entry, wing walls, cantilevered stairway, large floor openings and clerestory windows
- Repaired and strengthened half of the original damaged exterior walls to treat building as renovation (improved project schedule)
- Utilized concrete masonry walls at screening rooms for seismic resistance and acoustical performance
- Designed structure to accommodate partial future second story
- Services provided while the Lead Engineer at Degenkolb Engineers