Building Design

Complimenting our building design capabilities, GM2 offers Peer Review and Special Inspection services. GM2 is the structural engineer of record for the Colt Gateway restoration project. This assignment encompasses a $110 million, 1 million square foot restoration and conversion of the historic Samuel Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut. GM2 has been selected by the State of Connecticut OPM and DPW to provide Peer Review and Special Inspection services to projects involving these state agencies, in addition to several private development projects. GM2 is establishing itself in school design, having provided structural design services for prominent area architects over the last three years.

Recent Examples of Work Include:

Naylor Elementary School – Hartford, CT
GM2 designed a 45,000-square-foot, seismically isolated, three-story steel frame addition to the existing school. The addition houses a cafeteria, second floor gymnasium, and three-story atrium, as well as classrooms and offices. Click here for photos.

Colt Gateway – Hartford, CT
GM2 is providing the structural engineering services for the renovation of more than 1 million square feet in this historic armory complex for residential, commercial and office space. Structural engineering duties for the project include: inspection and assessment of the two oldest (circa 1855) buildings; inspection and analysis of the existing boiler plant building; design of a new micro-pile supported interior floor slab and cooling tower frame for the existing boiler plant to facilitate a complete replacement of the mechanical systems; inspection, assessment, analysis, and design of modifications to the historic East Armory for a very large heat pump piping system; extensive structural repairs to deteriorated concrete frame buildings; structural modifications for new elevator installations in existing buildings; reconstruction and reinforcement of existing exterior walls; design of new connecting structures, loading docks and entrance canopies; and design of site walls and screen walls. Click here for photos.

Trumbull Center – Hartford, CT
Code required a threshold review of an 11-story parking garage and 10-story apartment building with a combined total area of 340,000 square feet. The project also included extensive structural renovation to historic buildings. The project structural systems utilized cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, structural steel, masonry, and timber construction. Click here for photos.

Sovereign Bank – West Hartford, CT
GM2 designed extensive renovations of an existing commercial building, including the construction of an internal three-story elevator and shaft, floor infill at abandoned stair shafts, and support for new mechanical equipment. Click here for photos.

Adriaen’s Landing, Front Street Parking Garages – Hartford, CT
GM2 was the Chief Engineer responsible for the threshold Peer Review of the cast-in-place foundation and precast components of the Front Street garages (both A & B). Each garage is designed to accommodate 600 cars and provide retail space. The design is based on BOCA 1996 B, with Connecticut Supplements up to year 2000. An independent lateral analysis of the garages was also conducted using RAM –FRAME/STEEL software by inputting the equivalent concrete to steel stiffness.

18 Temple Street Peer Review (The Historic Sage Allen Building Renovation) – Hartford, CT
GM2 was the Chief Engineer responsible for the independent (peer) review of the primary structural system for the eight-story Loft Apartments at 18 Temple Street. Click here for photos.

Stamford Courthouse Parking Garage – Stamford, CT
GM2 is the Chief Engineer responsible for the independent review of the new six-level parking garage, designed to accommodate 500+ cars on Hoyt Street across from the existing courthouse. The peer review entails the review of the cast-in-place foundation and precast components. In addition, Special Inspections will be conducted along with construction observation. Click here for photos.

115 Asylum Street Renovations – Hartford, CT
GM2 was responsible for renovation and reuse of a five-story National Historic Registered (circa 1880s) building in Hartford. Originally the location of Stackpole, Moore Tryon Clothiers, the building is now being restored for a bank branch and business office facility. Structural renovations include the construction of new elevator and stair shafts within the building and reframing of the roof and floor systems for all new mechanical units and duct openings. Click here for photos.