Americana @ Brand
Glendale, CA
This large redevelopment project is on 15.5 acres and is bounded by Brand Blvd., Central Avenue and Colorado Street. It contains 475,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and a cinema. The Americana at Brand contains 100 luxury condos, 238 upscale apartments, 75 retail stores, and a variety of restaurants. Construction consists of post-tensioned concrete systems for the eight story parking structures, subterranean parking, large steel iconic towers, and timber framed construction for the residential units above the retail. FWCSE provided structural engineering on all aspects of this large project.
Americana @ Brand
Palm Springs Convention Center
Palm Springs, CA
FWCSE provided design and detailing of the interior and exterior framing for the 90,000 square foot expansion of the existing convention center. The façade included large stone clad columns and a sweeping soffit. In addition, a temporary wall was designed to allow the convention to stay operational while construction on the expansion continued.
Palm Springs Convention Center
The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos
Corona, CA
The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos features craftsman-style architecture spreading across 250,000 square feet of retail construction. There are over 60 well known upscale retailers and a variety of restaurants to appease any appetite. This project consists of four large buildings with grand towers drawing people to the core of the shopping area. The structural systems consist of steel moment frames and open web steel trusses with a plywood roof deck. This project was built on a site with significant fill at one end and natural grade at the other end, thus requiring special attention to the foundation system.
The Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos
The Shops at Rossmoor
Seal Beach, CA
The Shops at Rossmoor project includes four buildings that total approximately 110,000 square feet. Buildings are constructed of wood framing with selected structural steel moment frames. Unique façades and towers were framed of timber and light-gauge framing.
The Shops at Rossmoor
Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz
Beverly Hills, CA
This award winning project is a stand alone 200,000 square feet service and training facility for the Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz Dealership. The building consists of four stories above grade and a one story basement which provides 74 service stalls and 224 parking spaces for the dealership. The building is a long-span post-tensioning concrete structure with concrete masonry shear walls as the lateral resisting elements. The long-span beam and masonry shear wall design provides the service facility with a maximum usable space and a most economical structural system for this facility.
Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz
Pine Corporate Center
Chino Hills, CA
Pine Corporate Center consists of 17 stand-alone buildings of various configurations. The buildings range from 4,000 to 15,000 square feet with a project total square footage of 130,000. The buildings are timber framed with selected structural steel systems. Individual towers and canopies provide the architectural aesthetics. FWCSE provided all the structural designs for this center.
Pine Corporate Center
Nissan of Fontana
Fontana, CA
This 34,000 square feet Nissan Auto Dealership consists of a one story tall CMU service bay with 75 ft long span steel truss with panelized wood roof system and a two story tall office/showroom with two CMU and steel framed structures and a panelized wood roof system.
Nissan of Fontana
Crate & Barrel Homestores
Austin, TX; Burlington, MA; Cherry Hill, NJ; Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Torrance, CA; San Diego, CA; Edina, MN; Canoga Park, CA; Westport, CT
This semi-repetitive design consists of stand-alone 35,000 square feet two story structures with masonry shear walls, structural steel moment frames and/or braced frames with concrete filled metal deck floors and metal deck roofs. Each store included elaborate architectural elements requiring special attention to detail. FWCSE also included completed cold-formed steel shop drawings for the exterior façade as part of our scope. Projects were similar in scope, but each had a different structural system and shape depending on architectural and site characteristics.
Crate & Barrel Homestores
Pacific City
Huntington Beach, CA
FWCSE designed this mixed-use project consisting of a retail promenade with office space, a hotel resort and spa, and an associated subterranean parking structure. The project has approximately 200,000 square feet of retail space and a 200 room hotel complex. A two level subterranean parking facility will be placed below the retail, hotel, and residential components to accommodate approximately 1,600 vehicles. The parking garage is designed with post-tensioned concrete flat plate slabs, and a mild reinforced concrete podium level. The retail buildings are designed using structural steel framing for both the vertical and lateral load resisting systems. The hotel and residential buildings will be constructed with post-tensioned concrete flat plates and concrete shear walls for lateral resistance.