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Panorama Tower 1 - A 33 story tower (660,000
sq ft) 403’ tall on Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas, designed as a concrete
shear walls and post tensioned floor plates, includes a 4 story pre-cast
parking garage (176,000 sq. ft.) and 16,000 sq. ft. of retail area. Lochsa
Engineering provided complete civil and structural services for this
project.
Panorama Tower 2 - A 33 story tower (660,000 sq
ft) 403' tall on Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas, designed as a concrete
shear walls and post tensioned floor plates, includes a 4 story pre-cast
parking garage (176,000 sq. ft.) and 16,000 sq. ft. of retail area. Lochsa
Engineering provided complete civil and structural services for this
project.
Panorama Tower 3 - A 44 story tower (620,000
sq ft) 494' tall on Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas, designed as a concrete
shear walls and post tensioned floor plates, with a 4 story parking garage
(310,000 sq. ft.). Lochsa Engineering provided complete civil and
structural services for this project.
Palms Tower 2 - This 29 story (393' tall) is
the second tower at the Palms Casino and includes luxury suites and a
2-story high venue area on the top two floors of the tower. Lochsa provided
all civil and structural engineering services.
Palms Place - A 49 story (737,500 sq ft) 524'
high condo tower addition to the popular Palms hotel and casino on Flamingo
road in Las Vegas, designed as a concrete shear wall building with
post-tensioned floor plates, includes a 4 story garage (245,000 sq ft).
Lochsa provided all civil and structural engineering services.
Palms Concert Venue - A 2,000 seat concert
facility for the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, designed with an 18,000
sq. ft. ballroom/convention center on top of the venue, the design
encompasses a mix of concrete flat plate, with cast-in-place seating risers
and long span structural steel trusses. Lochsa provided all civil and
structural engineering services.
City Center Harmon Interchange - This project
encompasses the re-aligning of Harmon Ave. to run through the middle of the
new City Center Project being built by MGM Hotel and Casino. Complete
civil, traffic and structural engineering for this project was provided by
Lochsa. The interesting feature of this job is a raised oval driveway that
will act as the valet and taxi entrance for all three hotel, casino and
condo properties that will make up MGM's City Center. There are also
connecting bridges and roads for pedestrians and autos to the two
self-parking garages on the site.
Planet Hollywood LV, Lochsa Engineering has
done several interior and exterior remodels both structural and civil to
convert the Aladdin hotel and casino into the Plant Hollywood Hotel and Casino
on the Las Vegas Strip.
Blue Chip Casino - This addition in Michigan
City, Indiana includes a 2-story structural steel link between the existing
land based support building and the new floating barge casino, along with
new mooring support for the casino barge. Lochsa provided the structural
engineering.
Resorts Casino and Hotel Atlantic City, New Jersey;
This 30 story tower addition was designed using the "Filigree Wide
Slab" structural system, with a 2-story 36,000 sq. ft. structural
steel low-rise, that includes a second story bridge to the new loading
dock. Structural engineering services were provided by Lochsa.
San Manuel Casino and Bingo Hall - This five
level 700,000 sq. ft. structural steel building with Special Moment
Resisting Frames also featured 180-foot truss spans over the casino and
bingo hall. Lochsa Engineering structurally engineered this project located
in southern California.
Hoggard Elementary School - This addition of
12,000 sq. ft. was CMU bearing wall construction with special arched open
web joint roof system.
T.I. (Treasure Island) - Glass Chandelier,
The next time you walk through the north casino entrance at T.I., look up,
the 18-foot diameter frosted glass (3/4" thick) chandelier supported
off only 12 wires to make it appear to be floating, was designed by Lochsa
Structural.
Westin Convention Center - This 20,000 sq. ft
convention center has surface parking located under a second level concrete
convention center post-tensioned floor slab with a structural steel roof.
The challenge for the civil and structural engineers at Lochsa was to
provide column locations that did not disturb the existing parking lot and
loading dock that were to remain.
Congregation Ner Tamid is a new Sanctuary
with a 2-story private school classroom adjacent to it. The construction of
this 65,000 sq. ft. addition is concrete tilt-up walls with composite
floors and structural steel roof. Structural design was provided by Lochsa.
Delta Downs Race Track Casino - This addition
in Vinton, Louisiana (Lake Charles) is a 10-story tower plus 72,000 sq. ft.
of low rise. The tower construction is CMU bearing walls with hollow core
plank floors with a structural steel low-rise and Event Center done is
three phases.
JBA Office Building - This seemed like any
other office building but this 25,800 sq. ft. CMU bearing wall building
with open web joist roof, was anything but. Many of the architectural
features on this building are accuracy exposed structural steel elements.
The coordination and design of these elements make for an interesting open
structure look to the building. Lochsa provided both the civil and
structural design.
Caesars Forum Expansion - This is the third
Expansion to the ever popular shopping mall at Caesars Palace, this 4-story
addition, 320,000 sq. ft., features a three-story open atrium entrance as
you walk in off the strip with 2 pair of helical escalators to get you to
the third floor. A built-up helical box beam under the center of the
escalator provides the structural support. The structural design of these
box beams and the 4-story addition was provided by Lochsa.
Icon Condo Towers - Two 49 story towers
(totaling 987,000 sq ft) 538' tall Concrete / post-tensioned / shear wall
construction, with 5 story parking garage (totaling 502,000 sq ft.)
Concrete / post-tensioned floors and shear wall construction, and a 2 story
retail area (22,000 sq ft) designed using structural steel.
Post Hole Office Complex Buildings A and B -
This complex consists of two one story concrete tilt-up buildings totaling
60,000 sq. ft. with open web joist roofs that has become the offices for
Lochsa Engineering and Surveying in Las Vegas.
"The Curve" - Is a complex that
when built out will have three high-rise condo towers with parking garages
and 15 one or 2 story retail / office buildings in southwest Las Vegas.
- Tower 1 - 19 story
(393,600 sq ft) 216' tall Concrete shear wall building with
post-tensioned floor plates
- Tower 2 is a mirror
image copy of tower one.
- Garage 1 - 6 story
(358,700 sq ft) Conc. Shear wall building with post- tensioned floor
plates.
- Garage 2 is a copy
of garage one with a bridge connecting it to tower two.
- 8 Retail / Office
Buildings - totaling 188,000 sq ft, one or two-story structural steel
braced frame buildings with composite designed floors and open web
joist roofs.
Wynn North - This 50-story (2,835,000 sq ft)
654' tall tower will be the second tower at the luxury resort located on
the Las Vegas Strip, it has a concrete shear wall design with
post-tensioned floor plates.
Fry's Electronics - 150,000 sq. ft. of
concrete tilt-up building with 36' high panels, this building was big
enough that they built a 2,600 sq. ft. home inside of it to demonstrate
their sound systems. Lochsa Provided the design for both structures.
Pinnacle Condo - Twin 33 story towers
(1,009,000 sq ft) 393' tall Concrete shear wall buildings with post
tensioned floor plates, with 5 level parking garage (234,000 sq ft.)
Concrete shear wall buildings with post tensioned floor plates, with 2-
story retail building (54,000 sq ft) Structural steel construction
916 Mixed-use project - Lochsa Engineering of
Idaho is currently beginning design for this 12 story, post tensioned
concrete building. The 324,000 SF project consist of two levels of
underground parking, 12 stories of condo's, retail and townhouse units.
St. Rose & Jefferies condo's - Lochsa
Engineering of Idaho has completed schematic Design for this 14 story, post
tensioned concrete building. This project consists of 500,000 SF of condos
and retail along with 150,000 SF of underground parking, in Las Vegas,
Nevada.Bella plaza Office building - Lochsa Engineering of Idaho is
currently finalizing the construction documents for this six story, steel
framed building. This 100,000 SF project will utilize a braced frame
lateral elevator/stair core in place of the conventional concrete core for
an economical design.
Capital terrace mixed use project - Lochsa
Engineering of Idaho is currently designing the construction documents for
this six-story addition over the existing two-story structure. The original
building was designed for a four-story addition and Lochsa is retrofitting
the existing structural members to accommodate the current six-story
addition.
Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian Idaho
- Lochsa Engineering is currently finalizing the construction documents for
this two-story 270,000 sq. ft. school. The school will be the largest high
school in the state of Idaho. A combination of traditional masonry
materials with exposed architectural concrete elements makes a unique
architectural statement.
Idaho Governor's Residence in Boise, Idaho -
Lochsa Engineering is currently designing this major addition/remodel for
the historic Simplot house. The project includes challenges with the site
due to the "hill top" terrain that requires careful construction
considerations.
Paradigm condos & garage - Lochsa
Engineering is currently designing on this three level wood framed building
over a concrete "podium" slab, located in Boise, Idaho. The
foundation utilizes Geo-Piers to reduce the cost of over excavating the
soil on the site.
Mammoth lakes mixed use garage project -
Lochsa Engineering is designing this four story mixed use project. This
project has some challenges due to the high snow loads and high seismic
area of Mammoth Lakes, Idaho. This two level concrete parking garage will
support the upper wood framed apartment building.
Boise Watershed - Lochsa Engineering of Idaho
designed this six-story observation tower along with a single story
interpretative center. The tower is a "space frame" to maximize
the amount of view available around the perimeter of the building.
Plaza 121 - Lochsa Engineering of Idaho
designed the retrofit and remodel work for this six story office building.
The existing building was modeled and analyzed for current earthquake
(seismic) and wind force standards.
Red hawk mixed use - Located in Ketchum,
Idaho Lochsa designed this four story mixed use project of approximately
75,000 SF. The lower level concrete parking garage will support the upper
steel framed retail/apartment building.
Hometown Toyota in Ontario, Oregon - Lochsa
Engineering of Idaho handled all the construction administration on this
23,500 SF one story, steel and concrete masonry framed building.
Construction documents were finalized in the summer of 2005. The project
was a design build/fast track type contract that included coordination with
the facilities', i.e. Toyota, in house engineers/architects on elements
that were incorporated into the final design.
Technical Education
Center at Meridian Idaho High School - Lochsa Engineering designed
this one story structure that will be framed out of masonry walls with
steel roof framing members. Several shop areas will be constructed with
long span open web steel trusses.
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