Protect America, an Austin based home security company, has moved into a new office in the Travesia complex in Round Rock.
CJG Engineers served as the structural engineer of record for the 43,000 square foot finish-out, which will almost double Protect America’s office space. The architect was Carson Design Associates of Austin.
For more information, see the Austin Business Journal.
CJG is performing the site adaptation of the Gamberi Regional Hospital at ANA Gamberi Garrison in Gamberi Afghanistan. It is located on the site of the existing main ANA Gamberi Garrison located in the northeastern province of Laghman.
The project includes the construction of a 100 bed hospital complex including billeting and life support for approximately 235 medical and other required staff. It also includes all other infrastructure necessary to operate and maintain the hospital. Utilities will connect to the existing Gamberi ANA Garrison system, while a separate emergency power system will be installed for the hospital. The hospital will have a force protected perimeter wall with its own entry control point.
Structural services being performed by CJG Engineers include the design of the foundation system, force protected walls, entry control points and infrastructure support.
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The Cook Children’s Medical Center Medical Office Building is under construction in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Along with Linbeck Construction and FKP Architects, out of Dallas, CJG Engineers completed work on the 285,000 square foot 6-story MOB; project valued at $80 million.
This is part of the Cook Children’s Medical Center expansion.
Charter Builders has finished construction on Waco’s Dean Highland Elementary School. The PBK Architects designed school is on schedule to open with University High School for the 2011-2012 school year.
Part of the 2008 Waco bond package, the school’s final construction cost is $12.9 million. The $172.5 million bond included four new schools, and renovations on two other campuses. One more school (Bell’s Hill Elementary) remains to be built, and will open for the 2012-2013 school year.
CJG Engineers served as the structural engineer of record on all six projects.
For more information, see our previous article here, and
the Waco bond homepage here.
Construction is complete on Waco ISD’s New University High School.
CJG Engineers worked alongside PBK Architects to design a new high school for the growing Waco community. The high school is a 2 story steel structure consisting of 275,000 sqft of classroom space, an 850 seat auditorium, and 30,000 sqft of gymnasium space, including two auxiliary gymnasiums and a competition gymnasium with fixed stadium seating.
Design began in November 2008, and Bartlett-Cocke General Contractors began construction in June 2009. CJG utilized many different designs to address the unique design challenges for the school. Due to highly expansive soils found at the site, the ground floor was designed as a structural 2 way flat concrete slab. In the auxiliary and competition gyms, to get the clear space required, 115’ long, 76” deep steel joists were utilized. To resist the wind forces, the unique floor plan was split into several parts and designed independently for wind loads. Each of the sections received their own wind braces to resist the lateral loads.
CJG also worked closely with PBK Architects to design the intricate entrances at the main enties, competition gymnasium and auditorium. Rolled steel and multiple levels of support were used to create the elegant cast stone arches and grand appearance.
University High School is on schedule to open for the 2011-2012 academic school year.
CJG Engineers was recently selected to the Eanes Independent School District professional services pool.
Eanes publicly requested qualification packages from consultants within the A/E/C industry to compile a list of experienced architect and engineering consultants. The district will assign consultants to provide various professional services necessary to complete renovations, additions, alterations and small construction projects approved in the May 2011 Bond Election.
The $54 million bond package, which passed with 62.9 percent of the vote, will pay for classroom and stadium renovations; energy-efficiency and heating and air-conditioning projects; technology upgrades; and improvements needed to comply with the American with Disabilities Act, among other things.
Since 1981, CJG Engineers has provided structural engineering services on more than 20 new high schools, 30 middle schools, 60 elementary schools and hundreds of completed addition/renovation projects. Their experience in the design of k-12 educational and support facilities is unsurpassed with over 80 school districts and private schools served in Texas.
Studio 8 Architects and CJG Engineers have teamed together to design the Meridian World School, a charter school to open this fall; CJG is serving as the structural engineer of record.
The school recently signed a lease for 55,000 square feet of the former industrial and flex space at the AmorRon A complex on I-35 in Round Rock. They will begin with 700 new students, grades kindergarten through eighth. The school plans to add a grade each year expanding over five years into 90,000 square feet.
The school will breath new life into an otherwise abandoned space that sat vacant for six years. When complete, it will be a great example of adaptive reuse of an industrial space into an educational facility.
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