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All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:55:58 +0000

All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL – This ten-story hospital and adjoining medical office building opened in late 2009. The complex contains over one million square feet of space.

Paul J. Ford and Company designed the new ten story, 670,000 SF All Children’s Hospital. This hospital is a state of the art facility with a 308 bed capacity housing emergency, radiology, oncology, and surgical services. As part of its emergency services, the structure is required to support an elevated roof top heliport pad.

The lateral load resisting system for the hospital consists of cast-in-place concrete beam and column moment frames providing protection from high wind storm events in this coastal zone. The floor levels above the basement utilize a conventionally reinforced concrete wide module joist and beam system. A deep drilled pier foundation system supports the building. In order to accommodate a loading dock area in the basement, tall cantilevered concrete retaining walls were constructed around the perimeter. Structural challenges on the project included curved, cantilevered concrete canopies, a “special effect” steel canopy and two story atrium spaces.

Project Team:

Architect: Karlsberger

Owner: All Children’s

Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie

Westgate Resort – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:32:19 +0000

A mixed use timeshare resort consisting of 687 units in 3 towers: 16, 24, & 27 stories with a total of 1,479,000 gross square feet. The project is located along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina within a high seismic zone, high wind zone and the coastal construction zone.

The structural system for the towers is post-tensioned cast-in-place concrete flat plate slabs with shear walls to resist lateral forces. The buildings are supported on driven piles designed to accommodate liquifiable soil conditions that may occur during a seismic event. The Central Tower includes a ground floor check-in level with retail and restaurant space, nine levels of structured parking with a roof top amenity deck. The amenity deck includes a swimming pool, hot tubs and cabanas. From the west side of the amenity deck, the 17-story residential tower rises to complete the tower. Construction of the North Tower s complete. The Central Tower is anticipatedto be complete in 2010 and the South Tower will start construction in accordance with market demands.

Project Team:

Architect: Morris Architects

Owner:Westgate Resorts

Telecommunication Towers and Monopoles

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:56:19 +0000

The communication industry has recognized Paul J. Ford and Company, on a national basis, as a leader in the design and analysis of guyed, self-support and monopole towers. The Company has designed and analyzed towers and monopoles throughout the United States. We have also designed and analyzed towers and monopoles in Canada, Mexico, and South America.

Transmission Towers

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:56:43 +0000

Paul J. Ford and Company has been providing structural engineering services in the electrical utility industry for over ten years. We have the capability to review individual structures for the co-location of PCS equipment or for a change in transmission service conditions on your structure. We can also review an entire family of structures on a transmission line for retensioning or reconductoring a circuit. Our review of transmission structures not only looks at the global effects of the loading conditions of the structure, but it also includes the local effects, such as bending and torsion, on the members of the structure when applicable.