St. Paul United Methodist Church, Elizabethtown, PA

Expansion and renovation of an existing church. Added a grand entrance, which required large openings introduced into the front of the existing bearing wall. The addition was two stories and was framed with exterior masonry bearing walls, concrete over metal deck and bar joist supported floor and a metal deck and joist roof. We assisted the contractor with a shoring of the existing masonry fill tower to allow for the addition of entrances to the new addition from the existing building.

Otterbien Methodist Church & Education Center

New construction of a Church and School. The exterior is brick faced with a reinforced concrete masonry backup wall. The roof of the church is heavy timber decking supported by prefabricated Glue Laminated Tudor Arches and beams. The school roof is flat and will be supported by plywood decking over custom prefabricated wood trusses bearing on reinforced concrete masonry. The structure will sit on concrete spread footings.

Saint Peter and Paul's Church, Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania

Retained by the Office of Surface Mines we evaluated the structure and subsurface conditions of a church built in 1923. The structure is structural steel and the facade is brick. The church has a cathedral ceiling and was experiencing substantial cracking in the foundation walls and the brick facade. Our work involved writing a report summarizing site observations, the site survey, subsurface investigations and structural analysis with regard to the apparent settlement.