Structural engineering

The Baiyun Window is located in the core business district of Baiyun New City, Guangzhou, with a height of 130m and a total construction area of 110,000㎡.  In combination with the regional environment, the overall layout is meant to being open to the city. City squares and commercial blocks were designed for the public, with a three-story staircase on the northeast side of the entrance, the sense of ceremony is emphasised. While Tower A mainly for retails, catering, conference centres and other office supporting services, Tower B serves as a residential zone, facing the best view of the Baiyun Mountains. The twin towers are connected by a platform on 25F, of which the hollow volume subverts the closed logic of office buildings that ce... More

Caption Russell and Dawson provided architecture design services and engineered a 64,000 sq. ft. space for the construction of a new hotel with a project value of $ 15 million. We provided design-build services including Architectural, Structural, and MEP Design Services, Construction Administration, and Closeout. Russell and Dawson was also a general contractor for this project. The hotel is located off Highway 12 amid Key Road Plaza retailers and casual dining. The hotel amenities include a fitness center, heated indoor pool, sunlit conference room, and business center. Hampton Inn at Keene is a limited-service hotel with wood frame construction. The construction is expected to be completed by the end of this year and the hotel plans... More

The Entech Innovative Engineering team performed the technical design engineering and fabrication of a 1/3-scale Statue of Liberty for an extraordinary dining experience in Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville Resort in Times Square, the beating heart of New York City. Unlike her counterpart in New York harbor, instead of a golden torch, Margaritaville’s Lady Liberty raises a margarita glass showing a path to all Parrotheads!    The massive icon incorporates within her torso an integrated banquette seating area with chandelier lighting and integrated flat screen televisions, all intended to give the look and feel of being with the Statue of Liberty.     One of the many important aspects of building... More

The project was launched with the ambitious objective of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park, which is not only a model for the landscape design that is so essential in China, but also contains a building infrastructure that can be used for researching into and offering people access to and information about natural ecosystems. The politically stated need to create high-quality leisure areas in or close to cities and to find ways of controlling the resulting large numbers of visitors formed the basis for the definition of a spatial programme. This envisaged not only the creation of the landscape park itself, but also the construction of a central entrance building with a nature museum and administration facility, th... More

Nashville is getting its first large-scale mass timber structure in the form of two office buildings, up to 5 storeys tall, as part of a larger mixed use development. A feature of the building is the gable roofs, which will create a beautiful vaulted space that will also highlight the warmth of wood from the exterior. The floor and roof decks use structural, prefabricated DLT panels supported by a Glulam post and beam frame. The mass timber superstructure is anchored back to centrally located concrete cores which transfer lateral loads down to the foundations. More

Epstein is pleased to be providing full-service design and engineering services for a multi-phased mixed-use development in Bacau, Romania, a city situated in the historical region of Moldavia, at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. This project, which is nestled along the Bristita River, is being developed by the new real estate development arm of the home improvement company, Dedeman, the Romanian equivalent of The Home Depot. Epstein’s Dedeman master plan for the site includes a new central shopping and entertainment district for Bacau. A park and riverfront entertainment boulevard are also envisioned to give the community public areas for leisure and sponsored events. Multi-family residential, hotel and class “A&rdq... More

Epstein served as the design architect, MEP/FP engineer and structural engineer for Two Tabor, a 33-story high-rise office building located in Denver, Colorado. Two Tabor's full-block site is bordered by Larimer, Lawrence, 16th and 17th streets and is a component of an urban development that was initially constructed in the mid-1980's. At that time a master plan was developed that included two office towers, retail space and hotel. The initial construction in 1987 included the hotel, the retail component and one of the office towers, which was subsequently named One Tabor. Two Tabor offers 800,000 square feet of core and shell office building with retail spaces at grade level. The parking, loading, mechanical and electrical space, and bac... More

Depoldering Noordwaard is one of the largest projects in the Netherlands aiming to create more room for the river. A consortium of Boskalis, Martens en Van Oord, Van Hattum en Blankevoort and Gebroeders Van Kessel were commissioned to run the project. Together with West 8 we designed all 30+ bridges and pumping stations for the new 4450 hectare flow area.After we made the preliminary design in collaboration with West 8, it was our task to turn that into the final design. Each type of bridge has its own characteristics, but what they all share is that the design shows the bridge’s function as well as that of its structural elements. For example, the creek bridges comprise wide, prefabricated concrete supports with a smaller deck placed on to... More

Epstein provided architectural and interior design, as well as full-service engineering services, for an expansion & partial renovation to the Park Plaza Senior Living Center in Chicago, Illinois. Park Plaza is an 180,000-square-foot modern Jewish Orthodox senior retirement facility located on the north side of Chicago, built in 1987. The center includes many amenities for social functions such as a beauty salon, library, and game room, as well as other facilities for physical therapy, and worship in an independent community. Originally, those amenities were spread throughout the building, and one of Epstein's tasks was to bring all of these amenities together on the ground floor to create a new renovated social area for all to gather.... More