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Spaulding Paolozzi Center - Charleston, South Caroline, United States
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Owner
Clemson University
Architect
Allied Works Architecture
General Contractor
Choate Construction
Engineering Office
KPFF Consulting Engineers
The Spaulding Paolozzi Center (SPC) is a new, 3-storey, 36,000 sq. ft.
building that will house classrooms, faculty offices, design studios and
library facilities, as well as rooms for exhibits, lectures, community activities,
garden areas and outdoor spaces for academic and public events. The
conventionally reinforced cast-in-place concrete building consists of a
series of curved concrete walls that are different at each level and which
overlap at discrete points. Both the interior and exterior walls are perforated
with a repeating series of openings.
SCIA Engineer was used for analysis of the perforated walls under in-
plane and out-of-plane loading, as well as gravity and lateral loads on the
overall structure. Seismic analysis was necessary due to the project being
located in both a hurricane area and a high seismic zone. To reduce file
sizes and simplify analysis, two separate models were developed- one for
the perforated walls, and one for the full building.
A number of modelling techniques were examined for analysis of the
perforated exterior walls, including cutting many holes in one large
element as well as arraying a single element with a single hole in it. It was
determined that FE meshing and analysis is much quicker if the latter
option is used. For seismic analysis, the IRS functionality was introduced
midway through the design process. This methodology was adopted
quickly and used to ease analysis and design.
Contact
Andrea Hektor
Address 111 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2500
97204 Portland, United States
Website
KPFF Consulting Engineers is a multi-office, multi-disciplinary engineering
firm that provides a wide variety of engineering services to the design
and construction industry both in the United States and abroad.
Services include structural engineering, civil engineering, construction
management, project management, surveying and a variety of specialty
engineering services. Significant broad-based experience provides us with
the ability to solve the most difficult and challenging problems. We have
built a reputation as creative and innovative engineers who are focused on
a high level of client service and excellence in everything we undertake.
KPFF Consulting Engineers - Portland
