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Harold C. Smith Learning Commons, Springfield College
Harold C. Smith Learning Commons
Formerly known as the Babson Library, the 57,000 GSF facility received significant renovations, including a new entranceway and rebuilding of the south main facade.

  • Completion date: 2018
  • Architect: ICON Architecture
The existing ramp and second-level front entrance were demolished, and the new facade provices a ground-level entryway. The front brick-clad masonry walls on the first 2 levels were removed in favor of new curtainwalls with large windows.

Reinforced openings were cut into the second level concrete floor for a new monumental staircase from the ground level.


90 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA
The Harvard University Library building occupies four levels above grade and two below, totaling 30,000 GSF. The LEED gold-rated building also features a geothermal HVAC system.

  • Completion date: 2005
  • Construction cost: 12 million USD
  • Architect: Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects Inc.
90 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA
Cheifly a concrete structure, the building features steel-framed front and rear canopies.

High groundwater conditions required the installation of slurry walls for the 2-level basement. Slurry wall reinforcements were designed to resist earth and hydrostatic pressures, surcharge loading, and seismic loadings. The mat foundation rests on a reinforced concrete mud mat.

American Bureau of Shipping Information Commons
American Bureau of Shipping Information Commons
The ABSIC building is a new 41,700 GSF library complex at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. It contains over 50 public computers with over half a million online books and journals, and features a full-scale mission bridge simulator.

  • Completion date: 2011
  • Construction cost: 25 million USD
  • Architect: Perry Dean Rogers & Partners
The new building is framed in steel and braced by a combination of concentrically braced and moment frames, on a foundation of spread footings.


Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University
Located on the University's south side, the 103,000 GSF building has 5 floors of study space with a large 1st floor auditorium. It features gable roofs, with a cylindrical stone drum protruding above the cross gable in the middle of the roof.

  • Completion date: 2002
  • Construction cost: 16 million USD
  • Architect: Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Associates
Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University
The building is steel-framed with composite steel concrete floor construction, supported on spread footings bearing on local limestone. Lateral loads are resisted by concentrically braced frames around the stair and elevator openings.

The building facade is a combination of stone, brick, and curtainwall.

Boston Public Library
Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library
The new Allston branch of the BPL features an efficient steel framing system with steel open-web joists for much of the roof area.

  • Completion date: 2000
  • Construction cost: 6.4 million USD
  • Architect: Machado & Silvetti Associates
A dramatic double story entry way is achieved by means of moment frames with steel members that both slope and skew.


Harrington Learning Center, Quinsigamond Community College
This three-story 54,000 GSF building is a complete learning resource center with computers, conference areas, study and meeting spaces.

  • Completion date: 2003
  • Construction cost: 9 million USD
  • Architect: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Harrington Learning Center
The steel framed system allows for long open spaces. Braced frames stabilize the building. The south facade is a complex geometry of curves with a circular tower at one corner.

The building accommodates uncommonly heavy stack loads for library storage, and rests on a spread footing foundation.