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Columbus Center Parking Garage

August 12, 2008 - 11:25am — mmase
Columbus Center Parking Garage
Project Overview: 
The Columbus Center Parking Garage is a seven-level, 207,000 square foot double helix parking garage that provides parking for approximately 640 cars. The elevated ramps and parking areas are constructed using one-way post-tensioned concrete slabs that are supported on post-tensioned concrete beams. The skin of the garage was designed to look like the building adjacent to the Christopher Columbus Center (creating an appearance of horizontal floors, not ramps).
McLaren's Role: 
The most challenging aspect of McLaren’s role involved coordinating a deep foundation system around existing concrete tie-backs that are used to support an existing bulkhead on the east side of the project. Since the existing tie-backs supported a bulkhead that was owned by Baltimore City, McLaren had to provide access at the grade level of the garage for construction equipment to be able to access and repair the tie-backs, if necessary. In addition to the existing tie-back system, the utilities had to be re-routed through the site to ensure that all required elements would fit.
Service: 
Structural Design
Service: 
Foundation Design
Service: 
Preliminary Design
Service: 
Final Design
Location: 
Baltimore, Maryland
Client: 
The Cordish Company
Project Type: 
Structural Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2002-2003
Construction Cost: 
9,000,000
Image: 
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Location
Baltimore, Maryland

Client
The Cordish Company

Our Role
Prime
Project Type
Structural Design

Contract Period
2002-2003

Construction Cost
9,000,000
Services
Structural Design
Foundation Design
Preliminary Design
Final Design