56 Category 1: Buildings 1 Spaulding Paolozzi Center - Charleston, South Caroline, United States SE 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 inplane 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 www.kpff.com 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
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