Red Hook Brewery

Degenkolb assisted with an adaptive reuse of a building into a new brewery location for the Red Hook Brewery.

City of Ocean Shores Tsunami Evacuation Tower, Ocean Shores, Washington
Pier 70 – Building 12 Lift, Construction Engineering Services, San Francisco, CA
400 – 430 California Street Building, Seismic Retrofit – San Francisco, California
Stanford University, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning

Adaptive re-use of a 1903 concrete, 4-story chemistry building into a modern day combined chemistry and biology teaching hall.

UC Berkeley, Giannini Hall

Degenkolb is providing construction engineering support on the renovation and seismic retrofit of UC Berkeley’s Giannini Hall, which will protect and preserve the historic shell of the structure.

Greer Elementary School, Design Build

Phased Design-Build delivery of comprehensive campus-wide upgrade and new classroom buildings, administration, and multi-purpose at Greer Elementary.

City of West Hollywood, Building Inventory Survey and Seismic Ordinances

Degenkolb worked with the city to help craft a seismic ordinance program that will seismically evaluate and possibly strengthen three critically vulnerable building types in a proactive time frame.

City of Pasadena, Wood Soft Story, Seismic Retrofit Program

The City of Pasadena is currently in the process of developing a Wood Soft Story Seismic Retrofit Ordinance. Degenkolb is providing expertise in examining a preliminary soft-story survey as well as assisting in developing of the ordinance language. 

City of Santa Monica Hazardous Building Evaluation

Performed a survey of city buildings to identify potential seismically vulnerable structures including non-ductile concrete and pre-Northridge steel moment frame buildings.

City and County of Honolulu – Tsunami Ready Program

The tsunami-ready program leverages the recently-published national standard ASCE 7-16, which includes provisions for tsunami loads and effects on building structures, by developing an evaluation criteria to screen and evaluate buildings which may be viable for tsunami vertical evacuation.

Project Safe Haven: Tsunami Vertical Evacuation, Washington Coast

The project utilized a grassroots process to develop vertical evacuation strategies for several communities in both Grays Harbor and Pacific counties.

Ocosta Elementary School, Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Building, Westport, WA

Performance-based design methodologies were implemented to ensure that the structure would be able to resist a Cascadia earthquake while having sufficient capacity to resist subsequent tsunami inundation forces.

University of California, Berkeley, Doe Library

Designed the reconstruction and seismic strengthening of the historic library core after the demolition of the central stack area.

Walt Disney Museum, Seismic Strengthening

Degenkolb Engineers, along with prime consultant, Page & Turnbull, had the challenging task of maintaining the historic integrity of the…

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Degenkolb served as the construction means and methods engineer, converting the 1930s era facility into an 83,000 square foot world-class museum.

City of Beverly Hills Seismic Program

Assisted The City of Beverly Hills with its Seismic Program.

Toy Factory Lofts, Seismic Retrofit

A former toy factory designed for heavy manufacturing and storage loads, the building was successfully converted into luxury condominiums.

Arcade Building Seismic Retrofit

Was the set for large portions of the movie Daredevil starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

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Building safer communities

Degenkolb pioneers development of seismic and tsunami building safety measures. We are involved throughout the country in code development to enhance resilience design measures. On the West Coast we work with researchers to implement evidence based design on first of their kind structures.

In recent years, many communities have recently elected to institute seismic ordinances designed to improve the expected performance of certain classes of buildings during a seismic event. The goal of these ordinances vary from city to city but generally include better protection for the life safety of the public and are also expected to improve the seismic resilience of their communities. We have and will continue to serve cities by assisting them with the development of their seismic programs.  In addition, we serve our clients by providing current information on these ordinances and expert advice and counsel on how best to comply with them.

The 2018 IBC contains provisions for tsunami design and building evaluations. Degenkolb is developing first of their kind tsunami evacuation structures around the Pacific Coastal region.

 

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