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Abbey Lincoln Court

Abbey lincoln Court

Seattle, WA

Quantum Consulting Engineers provided structural engineering for the 50,726 square-foot Abbey Lincoln Court Apartments. The 68-unit building was developed by the Low Income Housing Institute, targeting workers making up to 60% of the area’s median income. Located in Seattle’s Central District, the six-story building include studios, apartments with up to three bedrooms, and townhouses. It shares a common courtyard with the adjacent Ernestine Anderson Place. It was built to meet the Washington State Evergreen Sustainable Development Standard. Energy efficient features include water-conserving fixtures and an enhanced building envelope design. It was named in honor of Abbey Lincoln, an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress and civil rights activist.

Seattle University

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Seattle University

Seattle, WA

Seattle University’s new bookstore is prominently located at the northeast corner of campus at 12th and Madison. The store occupies ground floor of a five-story, 82,000 square foot, reinforced concrete storage building that was originally built for the Bekins Storage company in 1910. The structural retrofit of the storage building involved removing a concrete mezzanine to create a high retail space, framing a new opening in the ground floor to provide a new entry and then seismically retrofitting the building to current code standards. The seismic retrofit of the building was done using shotcrete shear walls at select opaque perimeter walls, removing or bracing unreinforced masonry partition walls and installing buckling restrained braces (BRB’s) at open window bays. The BRB’s were used in part to keep the brace and end connection sizes to a minimum to reduce their impact to the windows. The construction took less than a year to complete, all while the building was still occupied by the storage tenant.

Skagit Station

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Skagit Station

Mt. Vernon, WA

Quantum Consulting Engineers provided the structural design of a one-story, 7,500 square foot transportation hub for both train and bus in Mount Vernon, Washington. Dramatically shaped roofs and shelters are reminiscent of historic train stations, and at the same time provide a strong modern Northwest connection to the outdoors. The structure blends exposed steel and wood elements throughout the interior and additional framing includes steel-braced frames, steel columns, and perimeter beams.

This project received the AIA Project of the Month Award.

Architect: Arai Jackson Ellison Murakami

Fremont Brewery

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Fremont Brewery

Seattle, WA

Quantum Consulting Engineers provided the structural engineering for the 80,000 square foot. brewing facility for Fremont Brewery in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The new facility has a production capacity of 250,000 barrels of beer annually. The new renovations focused on sustainability, water and energy conservation. The work included framing out new openings in existing concrete walls, designing a support structure for a 36,000 lb. roof-top chiller, and providing anchorage and foundation designs for large tanks and grain silos.