Parking Facilities & Garages Experience

Cross Street Parking Garage
Federal Hill, City of Baltimore, MD

The South Baltimore Parking Garage is a 35,000 GSF two-story structure that is designed to accommodate and support a future third floor. The structural framing consists of precast concrete, double-tee floor members supported by precast concrete beams and columns. The foundation system consists of auger-cast, grouted piles supporting reinforced concrete pile caps. The ground floor consists of a concrete slab on grade. Reinforced concrete retaining walls retain the adjacent sidewalks and roadways where the ground floor occurs below grade. Elevator and stairwell walls consist of precast concrete wall panels. The exterior of the garage is faced with brick. At most locations, the brick is supported by the precast concrete spandrel beams.

Longwell Parking Garage
Westminster, MD

Architectural and engineering services for the design and construction administration of a new parking garage in Westminster. The design provided for a 345+ space parking structure, with approximately 127 + ground level spaces. The garage was designed to complement existing historic downtown buildings. WBCM proposed a historical contextual design utilizing stepped, brick veneered spandrels with precast concrete string courses, glass enclosed metal stairway and elevator shelters, painted handrails, and decorative accent tiles, to echo the historic scale, height and varied silhouette of Westminster's main Street as viewed from the City Hall. The parking facility structure is an economical, open-air, long-span precast concrete double-tee structure, with no interior columns, with interior lighting within the structure, and parapet or low pole-mounted lighting on the upper level. The garage has one hydraulic elevator and two internal stairwells.

North Shore Parking Garage
Pittsburgh, PA

WBCM provided structural engineering services required to construct an eight-story, 850-space parking garage structure. The foundation system consists of grade beams and caissons while the superstructure is pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete framing. The lowest level includes retail space facing the streets and required a special waterproofing coating applied overhead. Full construction phase services were provided.