UC Santa Cruz

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DESCRIPTION

• Five story, 130,000 sf, $47M building
• Classroom and laboratory space
• Buckling restrained braced frame structure
• Designed by another firm

SCOPE

• Provided structural consulting to the general contractor during construction
• Identified structural issues that jeopardized the cost, schedule, constructability and coordination of the project
• Reviewed RFIs, submittals, and Structural Engineer of Record comments/responses
• Evaluated the adequacy of contractor requests for substitution to save cost

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Identified key discrepancies in the construction documents and shop drawings early in the process to save time and money
• Developed an innovative early backfill solution at perimeter basement walls, allowing the use of a crane outside the building footprint to significantly improve the project schedule
• Designed an edge of slab extension to support a 65-foot tall exterior wall with state-of-the art post-installed anchors