California Pacific Medical Center, Van Ness Campus

SGH consulted on the design of below-grade waterproofing, site drainage, curtain wall, opaque walls, and roofing. Highlights of our work include the following:

• Reviewing the building enclosure design for airtightness, watertightness, thermal performance, condensation resistance, and constructability, and recommending ways to improve performance
• Developing details to integrate the various enclosure systems
• Proposing building enclosure solutions to address building movement
• Developing specification criteria for the curtain wall, including air and water leakage testing requirements for a two-story mockup
• Witnessing construction and testing of the curtain wall mockup
• Providing construction phases services, including reviewing submittals, observing ongoing construction, and helping address field conditions

We also peer reviewed the design of the lateral-load-resisting comprising steel moment frames with supplemental damping provided by proprietary viscous wall dampers. Highlights of this work include the following:

• Verifying the structural engineer of record’s nonlinear dynamic analysis
• Reviewing damper test data and their effects in the structural analysis
• Evaluating methods for qualifying the adequacy of moment connections
• Commenting on proposed methods of selecting and scaling ground motions