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Abu Dhabi Financial Centre
The new headquarters of the Abu Dhabi Financial Centre (ADFC) includes four high-rise office buildings comprising 285,000 square meters of dedicated office space. ADFC is part of Sowwah Square, a 570,000-square-meter office and retail space development.   Read more
Advanced Pit Within a Pit Liner Extends Service Life
A 1,400-square-foot sulfur pit at a North American refinery required immediate assessment after a partial roof collapse. Following a visual inspection by STRUCTURAL, a full repair was recommended. Because an unscheduled outage creates challenges, however, the owner opted to repair only the collapsed portion and delay the full repair for a scheduled outage.   Read more
Arena Raker Beam Strengthening
Strengthening solution helps keep new university arena construction on schedule.   Read more
Atrium Palace
Constructed over 20 years ago, the Atrium is a twenty-story contemporary condominium complex convenient to Manhattan. Surrounding the Atrium is a 153,200 square foot outdoor concrete plaza area sitting atop a two-level parking garage.   Read more
Ca D'Zan Concrete and Marble Repair of a Historic Dock
Built in 1925, the “Ca D’Zan” mansion in Sarasota, Fla. is a 32-room two-story Venetian-style home, with an 8,000-square-foot Italian marble terrace overlooking Sarasota Bay. Considered “the last of the Glided Age mansions,” Ca D’Zan had been transformed into one of the most visited historic tourist attractions in Florida.   Read more
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
In March 2000, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (CCNPP), built by Baltimore Gas & Electric in the 1970s, became the first plant in the United States to earn 20-year extensions of its operating licenses from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.   Read more
Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
Masonry repair of historic cathedral   Read more
Cathodic Protection Installation on Natural Draft Cooling Towers
In 2007, a condition survey and evaluation was performed on the exterior shell of two natural draft cooling towers owned by Progress Energy.   Read more
Cathodic Protection of Historic Terra Cotta Cornice
Constructed in 1904, this building houses the administrative functions of a major historic museum in Washington, D.C. Located along the Mall, the facility is a National Historic Landmark and an important destination for many.   Read more
Coke Pit Wall Extension
Project included condition assessment as well as rehabilitation   Read more
DAR - Constitution Hall and Memorial Continental Hall
On the exterior of the buildings, material deterioration, delamination, fractured and loose elements, material staining, improper patching, as well as ponding water and drainage issues were all found to be issues of concern.   Read more
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Completed in 1939, Fallingwater is one of America’s most treasured landmarks. It is comprised of a series of concrete cantilever “trays” 30-feet above a waterfall.   Read more
Freedom Tower
Historic tower strengthened with FRP composites & concrete repair   Read more
Freezer Floor Repairs
Concrete floor repair in subzero temperatures   Read more
FRP Strengthening for Slab Penetrations
Several strengthening options were evaluated for this project, but the most effective proved to be the use of externally-bonded carbon fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites.   Read more
FRP Utilized to Convert Parking Area to Conference Rooms for a West Coast Hotel
Parking area converted to conference space in a west coast hotel using externally bonded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) system.   Read more
Full Balcony Replacement and Parking Garage Repair
Constructed in 1973, the structures had never been formally maintained or repaired. In addition to the lack of preventive maintenance, the corrosive nature of the coastal environment ultimately caused the concrete to spall and delaminate. STRUCTURAL was hired to handle the necessary repairs.   Read more
Full Sulfur Pit Restoration
As a by-product of the hydrocarbon refining process, molten sulfurous compounds are generated, one of which is elemental sulfur.   Read more
Hopkins House Repair and Protection Project
The Hopkins House Apartment Building is an 18-story apartment complex built in 1968. Each of the 271 apartments features balcony access and a five-level parking garage is connected to the apartment through a corridor.   Read more
Leon County Courthouse Parking Garage Strengthening
The Leon County Courthouse Parking Garage is a cast-in-place concrete structure with a capacity of more than 500 vehicles. It consists of five below-grade parking levels and a five-floor office structure above the parking levels. The garage also is home to a 135 ton memorial statue that sits on top of the courthouse's plaza deck which serves as the roof of the parking garage.   Read more
Park Hudson Parking Garage Restoration
This four-story structure sits on the Palisade Cliff, which is a long bluff overlooking the Hudson River. Built in the late 1960s, the structure stood 40 years with very minimal preventive maintenance. Severe corrosion and structural decay developed as a result of humidity from the nearby river, harsh weather and chlorides from deicing salts.   Read more
Pipe Repair at a Refinery
Repair performed to concrete lined steel pipe at a southern refinery   Read more
Pit within a Pit
A major refining company in Texas had a subsurface reinforced concrete sulfur pit that began to experience degradation when water started to enter the pit through cracks in the concrete walls.   Read more
Post-Tensioned Slab Modification
The Owner of a downtown Baltimore, Maryland office building agreed to construct a new lobby with escalators for its main tenant - T. Rowe Price.   Read more
Pre-stressed Beam Repair at a Washington, DC Parking Structure
The parking structure of a government office building in Washington, D.C. suffered failure of two post-tensioned beams as a result of overloading.   Read more
Preheater Tower Structural Strengthening
The Holcim Portland Precalciner Cement Plant near Florence, Colorado is one of the largest in the United States. It has an annual production capacity of 1.9 million tons of cement and its preheater tower, a 328-ft-tall, reinforced concrete frame structure, houses equipment that reaches 390 feet in height.   Read more
Providence Pipe Rehabilitation
PCCP water pipe strengthened with FRP composites.   Read more
Red Road Commons
Red Road Commons is a three-level condominium structure with a below-grade one-level parking deck.   Read more
Restoration of 18th Century Barn
Historic restoration of 18th Century barn that included the replacement of 75 percent of the wood floor structure and 100 percent of the wall framing and roof framing.   Read more
Strengthening and Restoration of Casino
Innovative strategies maintain casino operations during contruction of concourse connecting new tower to casino.   Read more
STRUCTURAL Delivers a Successful Turnaround
STRUCTURAL was contacted by a major refinery in Texas to perform work to their Delayed Coking Unit (DCU) and Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU) structures during a scheduled shutdown. More than eight offices provided project management and field labor to complete the work.   Read more
The LeJeune Flyover
The LeJeune Flyover was built to ease traffic congestion leaving the Miami Airport going westbound to the City of Hialeah. Approximately 33 feet wide and 262 feet long, the superstructure is supported on two piers and consists of a twin, steel box girder bridge with an 8 inch cast-in-place composite deck.   Read more
The New York Hall of Science Great Hall
Recent investigations revealed concrete spalling and deterioration, due mainly to inadequate rebar coverage, at various locations. The pre-cast panels were cracking between the pieces of glass and the edges of the panel and the surface sand finish was washing away.   Read more
Unique Strategy Keeps Concrete Dock Operational During Repairs
A Southern refinery for a major oil and gas company had a concrete dock built in 1910 that needed significant repairs. The 3,000-foot-long dock is connected to an intercoastal waterway and serves as the off-load point for crude oil and the on-load point for petroleum products with ships arriving and departing daily.   Read more
Utah State Capitol Base Isolation and Restoration
The State of Utah undertook a complete historic preservation and base isolation retrofit to their historic capitol. To protect the massive, yet ornate building in an earthquake, the building was strengthened using 256 state-of-the-art seismic isolators placed under the building.   Read more

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