Community of Hope Family Health and Birth Center

SGH provided structural engineering services for the project that included:

• Renovating an existing two-story structure constructed with concrete masonry bearing walls and steel framing
• Demolishing a portion of the exterior walls to integrate a new two-story, steel-framed horizontal extension with new foundations
• Constructing a new third-floor, steel-framed vertical addition supported on the existing two-story structure
• Installing screen walls around rooftop mechanical units.
• Creating a new foundation pit and openings in the existing floors for new elevators
• Relocating an existing stair into a new opening in the second floor and infilling the existing floor opening
• Evaluating the structure’s ability to support new birthing tubs, cores through existing floor slabs for plumbing, and ceiling-mounted equipment, and designing strengthening as required
• Creating new window openings in exterior load bearing walls
• Evaluating existing spandrel beams to support new cladding systems