University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, Texas
Voted best of 2008 Awards for Higher Education, Design by Texas Construction Magazine, Rogers Moore Engineers, LLC provided structural and civil engineering services and Walter P Moore provided traffic engineering and parking consulting services for the $35 million facility. The Shea Street building houses the College of Business by providing 132,000 square feet of lecture halls, classrooms, computer labs, departmental staff support space and faculty offices and suites. The main entrance features a four-story beacon lobby and roof top clerestory windows which allows indirect natural light to illuminate rooms below.
The super-structure for the Classroom Building is cast-in-place concrete frame consisting of pan formed beams, girders, and columns, and is supported vertically and laterally with steel frame, cantilevered from the primary concrete structure.
A 620-space post tensioned, cast-in-place parking garage, including one level of below grade parking is adjacent tot he classroom facility. the parking garage is located at the terminus of the METRO Light Rail Line.
Project Team
- Owner: University of Houston-Downtown System
- Architect: PGAL
- Associate Architect: NATEX Architects
- Structural Engineer: Rogers Moore Engineers, LLC
- Walter P Moore
- Civil Engineer: Rogers Moore Engineers, LLC
- Walter P Moore
- MEP Engineer: Carter Burgess
- Contractor: Manhattan