IMAX Headquarters

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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