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Building Design

SDR Engineering Consultants has designed over 200 office buildings, parking structures, educational facilities and miscellaneous building structures.

SDR Engineering staff members have served with several major pre-cast/pre-stressed concrete producers, general contractors and design/build construction firms. Our Engineers have spent substantial time in the field with the construction and erection crews as well as serving as main advisors to fabrication and erection personnel. We have acted on numerous occasions as engineering advisors to clients and construction personnel during critical phases of a project. SDR Engineering can also perform (add space) trouble-shooting, (add space inspections arising from construction variances and jobsite problems.

Buildings and miscellaneous structures designed and detailed by SDR Engineering Consultants, Inc. utilize components of:

  • Structural Steel
  • Hybrid/Built-Up Steel Plate Girders
  • Light-Gauge Metal Framing
  • Open Web Steel Joists
  • Cast-In-Place Reinforced Concrete
  • Concrete Flat Plate and Column Systems
  • Concrete Shear Walls
  • Plain and Reinforced Concrete Masonry Block
  • Pre-Cast/Pre-Stressed and Post-Tensioned Concrete
  • Timber Framing and Trusses

SDR Engineers are also experienced in:

  • Providing Specifications and the Inspection of Material Components and Installation
  • Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
  • Estimating and Cost Analysis
  • Concrete Mix Designs
  • Pre-Cast/Pre-Stressed and Post-Tensioned Construction
  • Welding and Bolting
  • Quality Control
  • Construction Engineering
  • Concrete Restoration and Repair Procedures
  • The Use of Exotic Metals and Concrete in Corrosive Environments


Representative buildings and miscellaneous structures designed include:


Alabama

Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Coliseum/Arena: Birmingham, AL
University of Alabama Extension Classroom Building: Huntsville, AL
Industrial Plant Complex for Ideal Cement Corporation: Mobile, AL
Twelve-Story pre-cast Concrete Office Building: Mobile, AL
Addition to Legion Field Football Stadium: Tuscaloosa, AL


Florida

Pyramid-Shaped Structural Nursing Home in Steel Framing: Gulf Breeze, FL Three-Story Classroom Building in Structural Steel Framing: Miamia Beach, FL
Three-Story Office Building in Light-Gauge Steel Framing: Panama City, FL
Panama City; Three-Story Office Building in Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Seven-Story Concrete Flat-Plate Condominium Complex: Pensacola, FL
FSU / Doak Campbell Stadium Field House Complex: Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Parking Deck Garage: Tallahassee, FL


Tennessee

University of Tennessee Basketball Arena: Chattanooga, TN


Texas

Eight pre-cast Concrete Mechanical Draft Cooling Towers: Houston, TX
High-Capacity Structural Testing Facility (prototype in U.S.): Houston, TX


Miscellaneous

Seismic Analysis and Retrofit of Mutual Life Insurance Building
Seismic Analysis and Retrofit of Air Jamaica Building
Analysis and Design Criteria for 18 Failed Water Towers
Analysis and Design of Steel Towers for Power Transmission Lines

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