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Portland Community College
Portland, OR

Owner:
Portland Community College

Architect:
Thomas Hacker Architects

Contractor:
Howard S. Wright Constructors

Working with Thomas Hacker Architects, provided structural design for a new two-story, 65,000-sf library that features a central reading room with a high roof cantilevered above the main roof level. The high roof structure is composed of exposed articulated steel arches which support additional layers of exposed steel beams, glulam beams and wood deck. Intimate collaboration with the design architects resulted in this highly ornamental exposed structural steel space. The design incorporates steel framing with braced frames on concrete shear walls. Construction of this $11 million library was completed in 2004. While with another firm, Chris Thompson served as Principal-in-Charge, and John McDonald served as Project Engineer.