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A creative culture of passionate people engaged in innovative structural design.

Hospitality & Residential

Flying Horse Farms

Location:
Mount Gilead, Ohio

Architect:
Glavan Feher Architects

Construction Cost:
$12 million

Project Size:
167-acre site

SMBH, Inc. provided in-kind structural services for a Hole in the Wall Gang Camp created by Paul Newman for children with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life-threatening diseases. The project included a dining hall, medical building, recreational building, staff housing, bunk house, arts and crafts building, facility manager’s house, maintenance building, amphitheater, and sixteen cabins. Activities take place at the horse stables and riding arena, boat house, rope climbing course, and archery shelter allowing children to achieve success no matter what their disease or disability. These buildings are situated on a 167-acre site of gently rolling hills, lakes, woods, trails, meadows, and wetlands in Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

Flying Horse Farms Rendering Ohio Historical

October 2, 2018 Filed Under: Healthcare, Hospitality & Residential, Recreational

Power Building Restoration

Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio

Architect:
Casler Design Group, LLC

Construction Cost:
$4 million

Project Size:
 100,000 SF

This project consisted of renovating an early 20th-century clothing factory for use as upscale loft apartments. The structure of the 10-story building consists of heavy timber decking and joists supported by steel girders and columns. The exterior walls are brick masonry. The basement is two stories deep, with a large portion housing boilers.

One unique aspect of this project involved the construction of two levels of parking below the building within the existing two-story-deep basement. Existing heavy timber framing was removed, and large openings were cut in existing brick masonry and stone walls to allow the construction of two new concrete parking levels. The lowest level is a slab-on-ground, and the upper level is a cast-in-place concrete slab supported by the existing steel columns. The upper slab was designed as a two-way flat plate, which allowed a minimum slab thickness to be used, thus gaining maximum headroom for the parking levels.

The new multi-level ramp required for access to the new parking needed to be squeezed into a very tight site. Extensive temporary shoring and underpinning were necessary to allow the construction of new cast-in-place concrete retaining walls and the cast-in-place post-tensioned slabs that formed the ramps. During the assessment phase of the project, we noted that the existing brick masonry façade exhibited extensive cracking, movement, and scaling in some areas. Therefore, masonry restoration work, which included replacement, re-pointing, and re-anchoring to the steel frame, was part of the project.

Power Building

October 2, 2018 Filed Under: Hospitality & Residential

Mother Angeline McCrory Manor

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
THW Design

Construction Cost:
$11 million

Project Size:
 140,000 SF

With the baby boom generation aging, a tremendous need for skilled nursing facilities that provide a safe and inviting environment has been needed. Owned by the Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm in cooperation with the Diocese of Columbus, the facility was designed to inspire a home-like feeling. The structure is a four-story precast floor system bearing on masonry walls. Walkways connect a steel-framed chapel and a wood-framed residence to house the Carmelite Sisters. The Manor was built on caisson foundations and utilized high-strength masonry units. As the project engineer, SMBH faced several challenges, including a steep roof slope for the chapel and an exposed structure city scene gathering space.

Another challenge included incorporating open community spaces on the first floor with masonry-bearing walls on the above floors. Understanding that early coordination is critical for projects with heavy structures like this one, SMBH held several planning meetings with other design and construction team members to ensure the design was as efficient as possible.

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Exterior photo of Mother Angeline McCrory Manor, a nursing and assisted living facility in Columbus, Ohio. Features brick and stone exteriors on the multi-story building.
Interior photo of Mother Angeline McCrory Manor, a nursing and assisted living facility in Columbus, Ohio. Features a view of the chapel.

October 2, 2018 Filed Under: Healthcare, Hospitality & Residential, Religious

The View on Grant

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Development

Construction Cost:
$12.6 million

Project Size:
63,800 SF

Awards:

  • 2018 AIA Columbus Honor Award
  • 2020 AIA Ohio Merit Award

 

 

 

The project involved the renovation of an existing five-story concrete frame and masonry warehouse building to accommodate student apartments. The project renovated approximately 56,000 square feet of existing space with the potential to add two stories of cold-formed metal framing structure. The existing slabs were evaluated for the potential to create openings in the floors to accommodate new atria.

Exterior photo of The View on Grant in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Project Title

Location:
City, State

Architect:
Architect

LEED Certification:
LEED Certified

Construction Cost:
$

Project Size:
 SF

Awards:
Awards

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October 2, 2018 Filed Under: Award Winning, Hospitality & Residential

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