BJG has begun the design of two flumes for the Truckee Meadows Water Authority. These flumes are being constructed to replace existing flumes that do not have enough capacity and are not adequate for Reno’s seismic loads.
The structure contains approximately 618 parking spaces on three levels. The garage is post-tensioned, cast-in-place concrete. The west and north walls are virtually solid to mitigate noise and light to the neighboring apartments. The upper barrier panels are a minimum of eight feet tall to mitigate sound and light emission. A decorative mansard required an inventive torsion-tube support to eliminate interior columns that could interfere with the parking.
Design follows the national prototype design from Mazda USA. Mazda is 17,000 sf 2 story showroom, service garage, parts storage warehouse & administrative offices.
On Wednesday, 12/11/08, I attended a dynamic test of a 110-foot long bridge model at the University of Nevada Reno, Structures Laboratory. This test is part of series of tests to investigate the performance of various technologies to improve bridge performance in earthquakes. The principal investigator is my former advisor, Dr. Saiid Saiidi, but the work is part of a group of researchers that span across the country: University of California San Diego, University of California at Berkeley, Florida International University. The testing is part of an overall network of research: The George E Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
