Date of Award
6-1-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Santa Clara University
Department
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Reynaud Serrette
Second Advisor
Sukhmander Singh
Abstract
This project focuses on the restoration of an old property in the downtown San Jose area. The specific location was recommended to the project team by their advisors based upon current site development by the general contractor Barry Swenson. After consultations with advisors and this contractor, it was determined that the project team designs two new structures to be placed on site that would help with the rehabilitation: a mixed-use low rise construction with commercial and residential space as well as a precast concrete parking structure. The low-rise building was designed as a hot-rolled steel podium with light framing (cold-formed steel) above it. The project's main goal was to produce two efficient structural designs composed of different materials (cold formed steel, hot rolled steel & precast concrete) with the aid of building information modeling. The current trend in industry of using parametric modeling programs like Revit, prompted the project team to incorporate this new technology into the designs.
Recommended Citation
Desai, Satej; Howard, Marina; and Nava, Michaela, "Mixed-use low-rise and parking structure design in downtown San Jose" (2013). Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses. 6.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/ceng_senior/6