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laboratory/office experience

Spring House Innovation Park – Building 4
Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Spring House Innovation Park is a $5.8M reuse development of a former
1960s-era central utility plant. The multi-tenant business and research campus
features built-to-suit laboratories, state-of-the-art R&D facilities and office space.
Structural design services were provided for renovation to the existing two-story
building for re-use as office and laboratory space. The project scope included:
• Addition of new entrance canopies
• New stair and elevator shafts within the existing building foot print
• Infill of existing stair, elevator and mechanical shafts throughout the
building Spring House Innovation Park
• Expansion of existing high roof to convert low roof area into interior space.
Spring House Innovation Park – Building 8
Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Structural design and construction administration services were provided for
renovations and additions to the existing building. The project scope included:
• Installation of a new elevator in the existing floor plan. The opening
occurred full height of the building and full height CMU walls. The elevator
necessitated a new opening at the roof level for elevator clearance possible
underpinning of the existing elevator pit.
• Installation of a new opening in the existing second floor slab located in the
building corner adjacent to the existing stair opening.
• New entrance element on the corner adjacent to the proposed first floor lobby
including new exterior columns and roof canopy.
• Analysis of the existing building and creation of new openings for the support
of new rooftop mechanical units requiring steel framing to re-support the SHIP Building 8 Renovation
existing concrete framing.
• Coordination and detailing required for the removal and replacement of the
exterior building walls. The masonry wall was removed and new storefront
walls were installed near the exterior column location.
• Coordination of miscellaneous modifications to the existing stairs openings as
well as infill of existing small floor openings.

Spring House Innovation Park – Building 6
Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Structural design services and construction administration were provided for
renovations and additions to the existing building. The project scope included:

• Removal of second-floor framing to create a new open lobby space.
• Installation of a new exterior canopy and vestibule at the main entrance.
• Removal of existing walls for installation of a new exterior curtain wall
structure.
• Removal of concrete curb at the roof structure and installation of new roof-
top mechanical units.
• New floor infill in the existing second-floor mechanical plenum.
• Installation of new exterior wall panels to be attached to the existing
structure.
• Installation of a new elevator shaft and pit in the existing footprint.

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