Ross Warehouse Seismic Upgrade

Vancouver, Washington

Working as prime consultant which was part of a multi-disciplinary team of consultants in the partial adaptive reuse of this existing single-story rectangular-shaped warehouse with several storage mezzanines to add an “open” concept office building with restrooms and storage. In addition to the structural seismic strengthening of this 100,400 sf building originally constructed in 1961 worked closely with BPA architects to reprogram some of the office space, convert large warehouse space into office space, add restrooms and convert heavy storage to small bin storage. Strengthening scheme included addition of new exterior steel braced frames and interior concrete shear walls. An essential building to BPA operations, this building remained fully-operational during construction and was carefully phased to minimize disruption to its occupants.