Project Name: Western Digital
Project Type: Seismic Upgrade
Location: Fremont, CA
General Contractor: Hathaway Dinnwiddie
Description: Designed by Degenkolb Structural Engineers Inc., this project includes three distinct solutions:
(1) Extensive tri-chord truss exoskeleton, suspended over the existing roof structure to hold roof girders;
(2) Exterior “Buckling Restrained Brace” buttress system; and (3) Steel plate reinforcement of office floor
diaphragms and heavy channel reinforcement of Glulam girders.
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