Discovery Park Lodge, designed by GGL Architecture, consists of a 3-story wood framed apartment complex over a full basement parking garage. The main floor is “framed” with a post-tensioned concrete slab to allow for the parking garage below. The wood framed structure above consisted of bearing walls, wood sheathed lateral system, I-joist floor system, and a combination of stick frame and pre-engineered wood trusses. The building will be used for low income elderly housing with options to buy or lease each unit. The building has kitchen facilities and is fully equipped for elderly services.

A new four-story building with 38,500 square feet of usable space for ski lodge activities such as ticket sales, cafeterias, classrooms, locker rooms, and a day care center. The building will be constructed into the side of a mountain, so two of the stories will be below the backside grade. The foundation is cast-in-place concrete walls. The floor levels are framed with steel beams and girders with a concrete filled metal deck. The roof has a 6:12 slope with some dormers. The roof framing is steel purlins with wood rafters and wood sheathing. The exterior walls are wood in-fill studs of the steel frame. The interior walls are light gage steel in-fill studs. The lateral force resisting elements are a combination of steel moment frames, steel braced frames, concrete shear walls, wood shear walls, and heavy timber bracing.

Our partnership with The Bungalow Company has lead to hundreds of successful projects throughout the United States. The Bungalow is more about philosophy than a particular single style. Bungalows are cozy, attractive, functional buildings — free of wasted space. Bungalow living is about a simpler pursuit of life (and less house cleaning). As structural engineers, our role is to provide functional structural designs for all regions that stay out of the way of the classic bungalow style.

This 3,500 square foot custom home is divided into four adjoining sections and includes separate garage and storage areas. The residence is wood and timber framed construction with steel Vierendeel truss system and showcases stone veneer inside and out. The house features floor to ceiling windows and covered patio space along the entire wall facing the lake. The residence also features a private timber bridge, separate garage and storage facility, and covered outdoor patio and stone fireplace. The foundation construction required blasting to down to rock.

This developer’s property lies on the ski hill in Aspen and features a ski-in/ski-out location. Taking advantage of an obviously sloped site, the residence has both a walk-out level to the lower hill and partial basement below the walkout. In order to preserve escape routes at the basement level, concrete window wells were created and covered in stone to preserve exterior aestetics while meeting fire code. This is a four-story wood framed building with steel framing to preserve open floorplan and multiple floor height changes at each level and has a 24-foot tall retaining wall inside residence to support the upper driveway and parking . There is extensive stonework both inside and out, wraparound stone deck/patio and multiple patios and balconies and antique timber wrapped around steel trusses and knee braces as well as true timber trusses, beams and purlins. The circulation between floors has both an elevator and a 23-foot vaulted space with custom window along timber tread staircase.

The house is approximately 20,000 square feet and has four stories that overlook Flathead Lake. It is built into the side of a mountain, thus creating a two-story daylight basement. There is a four-car garage, a 22-foot tall swimming pool room, and over 4000 square feet of exterior decks and balconies.