Projects

ASE projects range from major new construction projects, including complex medical facilities (PDF) and university buildings, to minor renovations of various type structures and anchorage of equipment.

Selected New Construction Projects:

Mills College Student Housing
USF School of Business & Management
Laguna Honda Hospital – South Residence Building
Bayview Branch Library
Fillmore Heritage Center
Mission Creek Pavilion

Selected Seismic Retrofit and Renovation Projects

Laguna Honda Hospital – Existing Building Remodel
Pier One
Pier 35
Kaiser Permanente Home Intravenous Pharmacy
Kaiser Permanente Sidney Garfield Center for Innovation
Kaiser Permanente Bio-Repository
University of San Francisco McLaren Hall
Rocky Mountain National Laboratory

Selected Equipment Anchorage Projects

Kaiser Permanente Oxygen Tank Replacement System
Kaiser Permanente Replacement of Catheterization Lab

Selected Reports

Seismic Reports, Condition Assessment Studies, and Peer Reviews

Selected New Construction Projects:

Mills College Student Housing
Oakland, CA
ASE Role: Structural Engineer of Record
Courtyard Residence Hall is the new student housing complex at Mills College. This complex consists of a three-story, and two four-story timber structures on a sloping site, organized around a court yard, and houses 21 suites. The project also consists of large covered porches in front of each building, and several ancillary structures that tie the buildings together. Winner of 2007 Gold Nugget Merit Award.
Square Footage: 34,700 gsf
Architect: Pyatok Architects, Inc.

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USF School of Business & Management
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Structural Engineer of Record
The new addition to University of San Francisco School of Business and Management (Malloy Hall) is a four-story concrete structure on a sloping site next to, and connected to the existing McLaren Hall, which houses classrooms, and offices. The project also included renovation of three floors of an existing five-story concrete building (McLaren Hall), and partial remodeling of an existing four-story concrete structure.
Square Footage: 26,000 gsf (new construction) 40,000 gsf (remodeling work)
Architect: SMWM (now Perkins+Will)

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Laguna Honda Hospital
South Residence Building
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Associate Structural Engineer
As part of City of San Francisco’s replacement program for the oldest long term care facility in San Francisco a new a new nursing building (South Residence) was built, consisting of a five-story steel structure, over a basement, built into a steep sloping site. The new facilities in Laguna Honda Hospital are the first LEED Certified Hospital in California, and the first LEED certified nursing facility in the nation. As an associate structural engineer, ASE’s scope of services included the design of basement and ground floor, as well as the foundation system for this building, which consisted of a system of shallow spread footings and grade beams, with pin piles to resist uplift.
Square Footage: 61,200 gsf
Architect: Stantec
Structural Engineer of Record: Rutherford & Chekene

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Bayview Branch Library
San Francisco, CA
ASE role: Structural Engineer of Record
The new City of San Francisco Bayview Branch library, which is built around a court yard, is a one-story C-shaped building with a multi-level steel structure roof system, reinforced CMU walls on two sides, steel moment frames on two sides and metal stud interior walls covered with plywood, supported on a system of shallow reinforced concrete spread footings and grade beams. The project has been submitted for LEED Gold certification and is the recipient of a 2013 AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Merit Award, and an AIA Portland Chapter Sustainability Award.
Square Footage: 9,000 gsf
Architect: Thomas Hacker Architects

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Fillmore Heritage Center
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Associate Structural Engineer
The Fillmore Heritage Center, developed by the Fillmore Heritage Foundation, is a 13-story mixed-use complex, which includes a ten-story residential tower over a three-story podium structure. The podium structure houses a parking garage, shops, restaurant, and a Jazz club. The residential tower is constructed of post-tensioned concrete floors and roof, supported by conventionally reinforced concrete columns, while the podium structure has conventionally reinforced concrete floors. Lateral load resisting system in the building consists of reinforced concrete shear walls.
Square Footage: 207,000 gsf
Architect: LDA Architect
Structural Engineer: Middlebrook & Louie

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Mission Creek Park Pavilion
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Structural Engineer of Record
This project by Catellus Corporation in conjunction with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency consisted of construction of a new one-story pavilion building, as well as various park features such as concrete steps, retraining walls, and foundation for light poles, in a new park along the Mission Creek at San Francisco Mission Bay area. Structural system for the pavilion building consists of steel structure roof supported by a combination of steel moment frames and reinforced CMU walls founded on a reinforced concrete mat foundation. The project received the 2007 Merit Award for Concrete Masonry Design by the Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada.
Square Footage: 2560 gsf
Architect: Tom Elliot Fisch (now TEF)

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Selected Seismic Retrofit and Renovation Projects

Laguna Honda Hospital Existing Building Remodel
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Associate Structural Engineer
As part of Laguna Honda Hospital Replacement Program, the existing main building in the facility, which was originally constructed in 1924, is converted from a hospital building into a hospital support building, designed in compliance with OSHPD criteria. As Associate Structural Engineer for the replacement project, ASE took the lead in the renovation and seismic upgrade of the existing buildings. The scope of services for this project included adding a two story in-fill structure, which provides direct connection between this building to the new hospital, complete remodeling of the existing building, modernization of mechanical system, seismic evaluation and partial seismic upgrade of a concrete structure on a sloping site with four wings varying in height between three to five stories, and repair of deteriorated concrete. Since the building had to be in use during construction, construction work was performed in stages. During construction, many instances of deterioration and damage to the existing structural element were found. ASE provided a program for assessing the extent of damage and provided remedial details.
Square Footage: 234,770 gsf (Existing building gross area)
Architect: Stantec
Structural Engineer of Record: Forell Elsesser

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Pier One
Seismic Evaluation, Upgrade and Remodel
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Mehri Ansari, ASE’s principal, was the project manager for this renovation prior to establishing ASE. Due to her relationship with the client and her role in this project, after establishing ASE, the firm was hired to act as a consultant to the Engineer of Record to oversee the completion of the construction documents.
Port of San Francisco’s Pier 1, which lies in the Ferry Building waterfront area and is in the National Register of Historic Places, originally opened in 1918 dedicated chiefly to inland trade and transport. Later it was being used as a parking and storage facility. The renovation of Pier 1 by AMB Developers in conjunction with the Port of San Francisco converted this historic building into a class 1 office spaces with public access around the perimeter of the building. The scope of this project included seismic upgrade of the superstructure and the substructure, repair of deteriorated concrete, adding a new steel structure mezzanine level and creating access around the building.
Square Footage: 141,250 gsf
Architect: SMWM (now Perkins+Will)

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Pier 35
Repair of deteriorated elements
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Associate Structural Engineer in this project.
Pier 35 along San Francisco waterfront serves as a cruise terminal and parking garage. It consists of a one story timber structure with a mezzanine level, over a concrete substructure. The timber structure, which was originally constructed in 1915, has experience major deterioration and degradation over time. The scope of this project for the Port of San Francisco included condition assessment and repair of highly deteriorated elements and their connections. Several schemes for repair were presented. Due to limited available budget for this repair, and the fact that new cruise terminal is planned to be constructed, the client chose a repair option which is expected to be replaced within the five year period.
Prime Structural Engineer: Holmes Culley

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Selected Equipment Anchorage Projects

Kaiser Permanente
Oxygen Tank Replacement System
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Structural Engineer of Record
The old oxygen tank system in Kaiser Hospital needed to be replaced with a larger system. The system had to be operational during this replacement. The tank yard was too small to fit new tanks while the existing tanks were in place. Therefore, a temporary oxygen tank system, installed over a trailer, was placed on a driveway next to the Oxygen tank yard while the old tanks were removed and new foundation was placed to support the new oxygen tank system.
Architect: Polytech Associates

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Kaiser Permanente
Replacement of Catheterization Lab
San Francisco, CA
ASE Role: Structural Engineer of Record
The project consisted of upgrade of the equipments in an existing catheterization lab, including design of a ceiling supported steel channel framing system to support the new movable monitors and injector system, and anchorage of a patient table, and miscellaneous wall, floor, and ceiling supported equipments.
Architect: Polytech Associates