ADDITIONAL FEATURES
DFW Terminal D Parking
Jefferson County Treatment Plant
Puerto Rico Convention Center
Radio Shack Campus
Texas Children’s Hospital
University of Phoenix Stadium |
Concrete and Environmentally light
Sustainability was the goal and our structural engineering helped make this corporate campus Texas’ largest LEED® Silver Certified building project.
RadioShack’s beginnings in Fort Worth date back to 1919. As a mainstay of the city’s economy today, the company committed to help revitalize Fort Worth’s downtown in sustainable fashion with its new, 38-acre, one million-square-foot corporate campus. Much of the building sustainability was achieved through our structural engineering approach.
As the name suggests, Riverfront Campus runs along the banks of a river—the Trinity. While structural steel had the ‘green’ advantage of recycled materials, we recommended a site-cast, reinforced concrete structural system in response to the site’s sloping grade and varied bearing strata. To address RadioShack’s green building priorities, we researched and tested a high-volume fly ash-to-cement mixture. This composition cut cement quantities for the entire project by 23%, lowering cement processing emissions considerably. We also specified a rebar grade to reduce total tonnage 15%.
Other sustainability aspects included using regionally produced building materials; concrete curing compounds, admixtures and adhesives that limited VOC content; and green-certified wood products for formwork. The resulting structural system was a major factor in qualifying Riverfront Campus for LEED® certification and in garnering a design award for us from the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute.
But perhaps the best engineering lesson from Riverfront is that a high-level of environmental sensitivity can be achieved in an urban setting without compromising either building speed or economy.
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