The Oregon State Treasury Department building located in Salem, Oregon is the first USRC Platinum-rated building in Oregon and the first USRC-rated seismically isolated building in the United States. The Treasury Resilience Building is a 30,000, 2-story, steel-framed building and achieves both a USRC Platinum...
The Long Beach Civic Center project has demonstrated that resilience based design is feasible and cost effective. The building was designed to have low repair cost and virtually no downtime. Nabih Youseff Associates Structural Engineers and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP used SP3 iteratively in the...
85 Bluxome is located in downtown San Francisco and is a 5-story steel frame building. The owner, Bluxome Partners, hired ZFA Structural Engineers and ZFA used SP3-Design to iteratively design their solution. They selected a stiff 3-Bay steel frame with SidePlate® and where able to ultimately...
The Sanford Biomedical Innovations Building is a 5-story laboratory building utilizing buckling-restrained braced frames with a moment-connected back-up frame (which controls residual drifts), and this project is currently under construction. The engineers at Rutherford + Chekene were hired to design this facility and used SP3-Design (now...
The UCSF Center for Vision Neurosciences is currently under construction in Mission Bay and will contain ophthalmology clinics as well as teaching, research, conference, and administrative space for various UCSF units currently located at multiple sites. Forell Elsesser Engineers was hired and used SP3-Design (now SP3-Advanced)...
Plaza 555 is in Sacramento and consists of two non-ductile 14-story reinforced concrete frame buildings originally constructed in the 1970s. The owner, Pac West Office Equities, hired Miyamoto International Structural and Earthquake Engineers to retrofit the buildings. The engineers at Miyamoto used SP3-Design (now SP3-Advanced) to...
Casa Adelante is a 9-story affordable housing for seniors located in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. The developer MEDA and co-developer Chinatown Community Development Center hired Mar Structural Design to design the building for structural resilience. The engineers at Mar used SP3-Design (now SP3-Advanced) to achieve a...
1215 O Street is a 11-story state government building located in downtown Sacramento slated for completion in 2021. ZGF Architects hired KPFF Consulting Engineers to design a building that can achieve net zero energy and remain functional after an earthquake to support recovery of the community...