Education

Quantum Consulting Engineers provided structural design services for a new Student Health and Fitness Center for Everett Community College. This 47,000 square foot facility houses the school’s main gym, weight and fitness exercise rooms, climbing wall, multipurpose spaces, locker rooms and offices. The main gym seats 2,500 and the gym also features an elevated running track around the perimeter. The structure is composed of steel framing, long span steel roof trusses and steel brace frames. Exterior cladding includes brick and insulated metal panels.

The facility is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification

Architect: SRG Partnership

The Westside School project in West Seattle’s Arbor Heights neighborhood is an outstanding example of adaptive reuse. The project involved modernizing and adding 20,000 square feet to the 1970’s Hillcrest Presbyterian Church to create a state-of-the-art K-8 school, while maintaining the character of the original building. Quantum worked closely with SKL Architects to overcome technical and budgetary challenges to help them realize their incredible vision for the school.

Architect: Sundberg Kennedy, Ly-Au Young

Quantum Consulting Engineers provided structural engineering design for approximately 100,000 square feet of expansion space and existing facility modernization to the Issaquah School District’s Liberty High School, located in Renton, WA. The work was phased so that the high school facilities remained in use by the school staff and students, as well as the local community, throughout the duration of construction.
Demolition of the existing Kitchen, Performing Arts building, and Commons created the space needed for construction of a new state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center, enlarged and more open Commons space with a Culinary Arts area, new expansive Kitchen/Serving area with loading dock and west end chiller enclosure, and new Ticket Booth. The Performing Arts Center includes the main theatre with orchestra pit/control booth/stage, choral practice room, instrumental room, grand lobby entry, classrooms, and a smaller more intimate Black Box theatre. Improved site features include new tennis courts, north parking lot improvements, and a west courtyard.

Additive alternates that were designed (and constructed) into the expansion and modernization program, include a complete interior demolition and remodel plus east side addition to the Administration and Counseling area. Other alternates that were constructed featured a new two-story Auxiliary Gym building with the gym located over locker rooms, a new two-story Fitness building with the Fitness Room located over a training classroom, rehab/taping space, and a storage room.

Architect: Bassetti Architects

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.