Multifamily Structural Engineering Projects
Our multifamily structural engineering work ranges from new co-housing communities to repairs on apartment buildings where people are living through the construction. We handle both: structural design for new multiple-family dwellings, and upgrades, retrofits and balcony and deck replacements on existing ones.
Existing apartment buildings bring their own problems. Tight sites, occupants who can’t move out, and fire and life safety requirements that still apply while the work is underway. On one recent job the city required two exits for occupants at all times during construction, so we designed a way to provide them with temporary scaffold stair towers.
We have also provided pro-bono structural design for Habitat for Humanity builds in Eugene many times over the years.
For the services behind this work, see Decks & Balconies and Commercial Structural Engineering.
Featured multifamily and housing projects
Oakwood Manor Apartments Fire Rebuild
Eugene: A fire-damaged six-unit apartment building rebuilt to current code with new trusses, an accessible unit, sprinklers and restored stairs and walkways.
Habitat for Humanity
Eugene, Springfield and Cottage Grove: pro-bono and discounted structural and civil work on about 30 Habitat for Humanity projects, 2004–2017.
Oakleigh Meadows Co-Housing
Eugene: structural design for a 28-home co-housing community of wood-framed buildings and a common house on a riverside site.
Big Creek Point Senior Apartments Fire Repair
Newport: Repair drawings to rebuild framing, a double-sided shearwall and the envelope after a sprinkler-stopped fire in a three-story senior apartment building.
Lanai at the Cove Walkway Replacement
Seaside: steel deck and lightweight concrete designed to replace rotting wood on the elevated exit walkways of a three-story oceanfront condominium building.
Madison West Apartments Conversion, Eugene
Structural analysis and design to convert a former clinic in Eugene, Oregon, into apartments, with a new townhouse addition.
More multifamily structural engineering projects
- Oak Patch Road apartments, Eugene: fire damage repair
- Site development for an apartment project in Springfield
- Conversion of a former mortuary to apartments, Oakridge
- A new staircase for an apartment complex in Salem
- Deck design for Stoneridge Apartments, Pendleton
- An assisted living facility in Medford, with GWE Architects