Keast & Hood provided structural engineering design for the recently completed Steidle Hall, a combined 100,000-SF complex. Project scope included a 60,000-SF complete renovation with a 40,000-SF addition to a 1930s Charles Klauder building housing the university’s Material Science and Engineering Department. The finished building accommodates wet and dry laboratories, classrooms, and offices for one of the nation’s premier material science and engineering research institutes.
Structural highlights include:
• Cast-in-place concrete frame addition.
• New feature stair in the atrium.
• Vibration analysis/optimization for sensitive equipment.
• Post-tensioned transfer girders for first floor lecture halls.
• Seismic analysis of the existing building in support of significant structural modifications.
Keast & Hood provided structural engineering design for the recently completed Steidle Hall, a combined 100,000-SF complex. Project scope included a 60,000-SF complete renovation with a 40,000-SF addition to a 1930s Charles Klauder building housing the university’s Material Science and Engineering Department. The finished building accommodates wet and dry laboratories, classrooms, and offices for one of the nation’s premier material science and engineering research institutes.
Structural highlights include:
• Cast-in-place concrete frame addition.
• New feature stair in the atrium.
• Vibration analysis/optimization for sensitive equipment.
• Post-tensioned transfer girders for first floor lecture halls.
• Seismic analysis of the existing building in support of significant structural modifications.
CLIENT: EYP Architecture & Engineering
LOCATION: University Park Campus, PA
TYPE: Academic, Laboratory, SERVICES: Addition, BIM, Historic Preservation, Renovation, Seismic, MATERIALS: Concrete, Masonry, Steel, SUSTAINABILITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Final Photography © © Barry Halkin, Halkin | Mason Photography,
Rendering courtesy EYP Architecture & Engineering
