Southwestern University - Fondren Jones Science Building Addition - Georgetown, Texas

Llano ISD - Llano High School - Llano, Texas

Llano ISD - Packsaddle Elementary School - Kingsland, Texas

Lake Travis ISD - Hudson Bend Middle School - Lakeway, Texas

Lake Travis ISD - Lake Pointe Elementary School - Bee Cave, Texas

Leander ISD - Canyon Ridge Middle School - Austin, Texas

Leander ISD - Middle School No. 6 - Leander, Texas

Holy Family Catholic School - Kindergarten, Elementary and Middle Schools and Gymnasium - Round Rock, Texas

First United Methodist Church Education Building - Round Rock, Texas

St. Thomas More Catholic Church Education Building - Cedar Park, Texas

Project Architect - Graeber, Simmons & Cowan

General Contractor - VRW Construction

Completed - 1998

PKA provided structural engineering services for this 26,300 square foot, 4-story addition to the Fondren Jones Science Hall. The L-shaped addition wraps a corner of the original 50-year old building.

The addition consists of a steel framed roof, reinforced concrete beam and slab floors and drilled pier foundations. The first floor of the building is suspended over a crawl space. Exterior cladding consists of cut native limestone.

Project Architect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - Emerson Construction Company, Inc.

Completed - 2000

PKA provided structural engineering services for this one-story, 154,000 square foot high school facility. The facility includes classrooms, offices, cafeteria, band hall, library, computer labs, lobby, auditorium, practice gymnasium, competition gymnasium, physical education locker rooms, football locker rooms, weight room, restrooms and an agricultural/shop building.

Roof framing for the facility consists of a combination of cold-formed light gage steel purlins and steel open-web joists and joist girders supporting a pitched standing seam metal roof. Exposed gabled joist girders spanning 112 feet to load-bearing, tilt-up concrete wall panels are used to frame the gymnasiums. Exposed structural steel tubular beams and columns are used throughout the canopy areas. The building foundation consists of a stiffened ground supported slab. Exterior cladding consists of split faced concrete masonry.

Project Architect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - Guerrero-McDonald & Associates, Inc.

Completed - 1999

PKA provided structural engineering for this one-story, 22,500 square foot primary school building. Building houses classrooms, cafetorium, activity center, library, restrooms and offices.The structure consists of a gabled standing seam metal roof supported by cold-formed, light gage steel purlin secondard framing and structural steel primary framing. Roof framing is supported by steel columns. Framing for the cafetorium and activity center/gymnasium consist of pre-engineered metal rigid frames. The foundation consists of a ground supported concrete slab with column and wall loads supported by spread footings and grade beams, respectively. Exterior cladding consists of a combination of smooth and split faced integral colored concrete masonry.

Project Architect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - American Constructors, LP

Completed - 2000

PKA provided structural engineering for this two-story, 120,150 square foot middle school facility. The facility houses classrooms, offices, labs, cafetorium, two gymnasiums, band hall, weight room, physical education and athletics locker rooms, library and restrooms.

The structure consists of a combination of light gage cold-formed steel purlins and joists supported by joist girders. Roofing consists of standing seam metal. Gymnasiums roofs span 102 feet to load-bearing tilt-up concrete wall panels. Tube beams and columns are used to frame canopy areas. 2nd floor framing and 6,000 square feet of 1st floor over a crawl space consist of composite steel and concrete framing. The foundation consists of a ground supported slab with perimeter grade beams and spread footings at columns. Exterior cladding consists of split face concrete masonry.

Project Archiect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - American Constructors, LP

Completed - 2002

Project consists of a two-story, 70,000 square foot primary school building. Building houses classrooms, offices, cafetorium, gymnasium, library and restrooms. Roof framing consists of a standing seam metal roof supported by cold-formed light gage steel purlins and structural steel beams and columns. 2nd floor framing consists of composite concrete and steel beams and girders. Deep longspan steel joists spanning 60 feet to load-bearing, tilt-up concrete wall panels frame the cafetorium. The gymnasium is framed with special gable and hip joist girders and perimeter load-bearing concrete tilt-up wall panels. The building foundation consists of a concrete ground-supported slab with perimeter grade beams and drilled, straight sided piers to limestone at columns. Exterior cladding consists of a combination of painted concrete tilt-up panels, EIFS and split-faced concrete masonry.

Project Architect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - American Constructors, LP

Completed - 2004

Project consists of a split-level, 173,000 square foot middle school. The 2-story classroom wing consists of a composite steel framed superstructure, with interior steel beams and columns and exterior load-bearing tilt-up concrete wall panels. Roofing is pitched standing seam metal.

The administration wing is a one-story, high roof structure housing offices, a library, two gyms, weight room, locker rooms, band hall, choir room, theater arts and dance classrooms and a kitchen and cafeteria with stage. Pitched Tectum deck roofs, supported by steel framing and tilt-up wall panels, are used at the gyms. Remainder of roof is low-sloped steel framed structure. Main entry canopy consist of arched steel trusses. Foundations consist of ground-supported slabs with perimeter grade beams and drilled piers at columns. Due to the sloping sites, retaining walls up to 15 feet in height were required.

Project Architect - Fields & Associates

General Contractor - American Constructors, LP

Completed - 2005

Project consists of a 176,000 square foot middle school that houses classrooms, two gyms, offices, labs, restrooms, corridors, library, cafeteria and locker rooms. The 98,600 two-story classroom consists of a hipped, pitched steel framed roof. Floors consist of composite steel and concrete decks supported by composite beams, girders and a combination of exterior and interior tilt-up concrete walls and steel columns. The one-story admin/athletic wing consists of pitched, hipped steel framed roofs at the gyms and low sloped steel framed roof supported by interior and exterior tilt-up concrete walls. Foundations consist of ground supported slabs with grade beams at bearing walls with beams and columns supported by drilled piers.

Exterior tilt walls are insulated and constructed with 3" architectural faces, consisting of a combination of thin brick and sand blasted architectural concrete.

Project Architect - Spencer Godfrey Architects

General Contractor - Brath, Inc.

Completed - 2001

Project consists of a multi-building school campus which include an 11,410 square foot pre-school building, a 13,680 square foot elementary school, a 14,300 square foot middle school and a 9,600 gymnasium.

Superstructures for all four buildings consist of pre-engineered rigid metal frames. Foundations consist of concrete ground supported slabs with perimeter grade beams and straight sided drilled piers into limestone. Mechanical equipment in the classroom buildings is supported on light gage steel framed platforms above the corridors. Exterior cladding consists of split faced concrete masonry.

Project was delivered on a design/build basis.

Project Architect - Spencer Godfrey Architects

General Contractor - Flynn Construction

Completed - 1998

Project consists of a 2-story, 32,000 square foot classroom, office and meeting room space. The roof structure consists of pre-engineered wood trusses supported by steel beams and columns. Roof is hipped at each end. 2nd floor framing consists of composite steel deck and concrete slabs supported by steel beams, girders and columns. The building foundation consists of a ground-supported slab with perimeter grade beams and straight-sided drilled shafts to limestone at columns. Exterior cladding consists of native limestone. Roofing consists of a prefinished metal roof.

Project Architect - Spencer Godfrey Architects

General Contractor - Brath, Inc.

Completed - 2001

Project consists of a two-story, 31,000 square foot building to house pre-school and elementary school classrooms, meeting rooms, office space, restrooms and an assembly area.

The roof structure consists a composition roof on a plywood deck supported by pre-engineered gabled and hipped wood trusses and steel beams. The second floor consists of composite concrete floor slabs supported by composite steel beams and girders. Roof and floor systems are supported by steel columns. Foundation consists of a ground supported concrete slab with perimeter grade beam and drilled piers to limestone at columns. Exterior cladding consists of natural limestone, concrete masonry and Hardiplank siding.

Project also included the renovation of 12,000 square feet of existing classroom space that required the removal of several load-bearing walls and replacement with steel beams and columns.