Belmont, MA
Belmont Day School Barn
Scope/Solutions
The Belmont Day School wanted to expand their campus by constructing a new building to support their athletics and STEAM programs. The Barn includes the fieldhouse with two basketball/volleyball gymnasiums and the headhouse containing locker rooms, fieldhouse support space, and five new workshop-style classrooms. SGH was the structural engineer of record for the project.
SGH designed the steel-framed headhouse and the concrete foundation for the abutting pre-engineered fieldhouse. Highlights of our design include:
- A moment-frame lateral system to create large open spans and maximize flexibility in the tight building footprint
- Hollow structural section (HSS) columns for moment frames at both the flat and gable shaped roof areas
- Two dormers in the steel-framed gable roof: one for a 24ft wide glazed opening and another to accommodate the large duct inlets from the adjacent flat roof
- A 9ft cantilevered entrance canopy with plate fins to minimize thermal bridging at the connection to the base building structure
- A cantilevered portion of the headhouse adjacent to the fieldhouse to facilitate flow between the two spaces
Photo by John Horner
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Project Summary
2018
Completion Date
8M
Construction Value
14K (fieldhouse
Project Size
13K (headhouse)
Project Size
Award
Winner
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Structures
Markets
Education
Client(s)
Utile, Inc.
Specialized Capabilities
Building Design
Key team members
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