2023 was a busy year for the office of Richard J. Driscoll, Consulting Engineer (RJDCE), which featured a diverse portfolio of new and ongoing projects. The year began with a substantial backlog of structural condition assessments and projects in or entering construction. As the construction season began, RJDCE was engaged to provide consulting and design for underpinning and excavation support for multiple projects. In addition, RJDCE provided structural design services for building renovations and additions and performed more than a dozen condition assessments and forensic investigations of structural and foundation systems. Projects in Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore, Maryland, marked RJDCE’s post-pandemic return to the Greater New York City and Baltimore/Washington markets.
Project Highlights:
- Provided frost-protected shallow foundation details for loading dock structures to avoid underpinning an existing industrial building in Taunton, Massachusetts.
- Provided underpinning consulting and design services for the renovation of a fitness center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
- Provided excavation support design for a new community building in Brooklyn, New York.
- Investigated apparent construction defects in recently completed single-family homes in Coos County and Concord, New Hampshire.
- Investigated nuisance vibrations in a recently renovated Baltimore, Maryland rowhouse.
- Performed a structural condition assessment of a fire-damaged multi-family residence in Hartford, Vermont.
- Provided repair details for steel floor beams in a former mill structure in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- Provided structural analysis and design services to modify wood roof trusses in a residential garage in Hanover, New Hampshire, to allow the installation of a staircase.
- Reviewed forensic investigations and the construction documents to remedy differential settlement of a slab-on-grade in a converted industrial building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a tenant.