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Customer |
Wolf Shopping Center |
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Location |
Wolf Road, Des Plaines, IL |
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Symptom |
Canopy structure originally built with insufficient load bearing capacity. |
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Problem |
Canopy pulling away from building superstructure and tilting downward. |
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Structural |
Shored and jacked up canopy to level position. Installed steel beams and columns along entire 125 ft length of strip mall canopy. Mounted columns in steel reinforced concrete footings. Wrapped columns in brick and installed EIFS along entire length of beam line. Removed roof over canopy and replaced the ineffective framing with structurally sound framing secured to building superstructure. Installed new modified bitumen roofing. |
 Shored and jacked canopy into level position |
 Installed new beams |
 Beam line |
 Installed steel columns with steel reinforced concrete footings |
 Wrapped columns in brick |
 Wrapped beam line in stucco |
 Existing roof over canopy |
 Demolition of roof and framing over canopy |
 Prepared canopy for new framing |
 Installed new framing for canopy |
 New canopy center piece |
 Installed new modified bitumen roof |
 Completed project |