Commercial Projects
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Structural Remediation of Strip Mall Canopy
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| Customer | Wolf Shopping Center | | Location | Wolf Road, Des Plaines, IL | | Symptom | Canopy structure originally built with insufficient load bearing capacity. | | Problem | Canopy pulling away from building superstructure and tilting downward. | | Structural Solution | Shored and jacked up canopy to level position. Installed steel beams and columns along entire 125 ft length of strip mall canopy. Mounted columns in steel reinforced concrete footings. Wrapped columns in brick and installed EIFS along entire length of beam line. Removed roof over canopy and replaced the ineffective framing with structurally sound framing secured to building superstructure. Installed new modified bitumen roofing. |
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| Shored and Jacked canopy into level position |
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| Installed new beams |
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| 125' beam line |
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| Installed steel columns with steel reinforced concrete footings |
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| Wrapped columns in brick |
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| Wrapped beam line in stucco |
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| Existing roof over canopy |
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| Demolition of roof and framing over canopy |
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| Prepared canopy for new framing |
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| Installed new framing for canopy |
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| New canopy center piece |
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| Installed new modified bitumen roof |
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| Completed Project |
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Conversion of Non-usable Basement Space into Revenue Generating Addition to Pub Doubled Usable Space at a Chicago Night Club via Basement Dig-out and Pouring of a New Steel Reinforced Foundation Slab with Perimeter Retaining Walls.
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| Customer | New Lotties Pub | | Location | Chicago, IL, (Bucktown Neighborhood) | | Structural Solution | Doubled space and capacity of nightclub by digging out basement and pouring 10” steel reinforced concrete slab with steel reinforced integrated retaining walls to support the existing foundation. Installed steel columns and back entrance concrete stairway with steel reinforced CMU retaining walls. The photos below, as shown from left to right, show the project progression. |
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| Start of Basement Dig-out |
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| Laid Gravel |
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| Laid Steel Rebar |
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| Set Retaining Wall Forms |
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| Forms Removed |
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| Open for Business! |
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Replaced Wood Beams and Columns with Steel
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| Customer | Dino's Restaurant | | Project Location | Higgins Ave. Chicago, IL | | Problem | Unsafe sagging floors due to deteriorated wooden beams and columns. | | Structural Solution | Replaced deteriorated wood beams and columns with steel beams and columns. The steel columns were set in steel reinforced concrete footings. |
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| Steel columns mounted on steel reinforced concrete footings |
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| Steel reinforced footing |
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| Steel beam and column mounted to foundation |
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Failed Precast Concrete Planking Remediation
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| Customer | Strip Mall | | Location | Rolling Meadows, IL. | | Problem | Defective and Unsafe Concrete Precast Planking (used for structural floor of strip mall) | | Structural Solution | Installed steel beams and columns under areas of defective precast concrete planking used for floor in strip mall. Set columns in steel reinforced concrete footings. |
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| Beam and column installation |
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| Columns mounted in steel reinforced concrete footings |
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| System supports precast concrete planking |
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Installed Emergency Shoring and Repaired Structure
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| Customer | Hot Dog Richies' Restaurant | | Location | Palatine, IL | | Problem | Vehicle struck overhead garage doors and area between doors. | | Structural Solution | Provided temporary emergency shoring followed by the installation of a steel column between overhead garage doors. For future protection, installed protective posts in front of the column and the other two sides of overhead doors. Set column and protective posts in steel reinforced concrete and finished center column in stucco. |
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| Provided temporary emergency shoring and installed steel column. |
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| Completed job with protective posts and finished center column with stucco. |
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