St. Michael’s College chose to expand its housing and student life facilities with two new four-story buildings that use a one-story connector link. Architectural design requirements included extensive use of glass, non-load-bearing walls, and minimal columns in large rooms. D&K was responsible to provide structural design for the building’s complex framing systems, as well as…
Rutgers University developed a bridge deck testing system consisting of mounting hardware for experimental decks and appurtenances and a motorized, loadable, and wheeled reciprocating sled that mimics a tractor-trailer crossing the bridge deck. The BEAST is designed to expose full-scale bridge specimens to rapid-cycling, changing environmental conditions, and extreme traffic loading to induce accelerated deterioration…
For more than 15 years, D&K has served as an engineer-of-record for structural, mechanical, and electrical projects to renovate, maintain, and upgrade historic and contemporary classroom, laboratory, residence hall, office, and athletic facilities in addition to general campus infrastructure, such as steam tunnels, standby power, fall protection systems, and electrical vaults.
D&K provided engineering services for a new $17.5M LEED-Gold-certified five-story residence hall that houses up to 283 students, serving as a benchmark for new construction and renovation projects on campus. D&K provided civil/site design, permitting, topographic and boundary surveys, utilities, and cost estimates. Site improvements included grading, stormwater management system, access road/parking, pavement marking/signage, ADA…
Following the inception of Vermont’s Three-Acre Stormwater Rule, schools throughout Vermont needed to adapt their campuses to manage stormwater in accordance with Vermont Stormwater General Permit 3-9050. To help schools successfully manage these challenges, D&K has provided engineering and environmental services for feasibility studies and the design of stormwater improvements for five schools. The projects…
Serving as a training facility for government and other natural resource organizations, the NCTC comprises offices and 25 classrooms on a 500-acre campus. The NCTC hosts groups of up to 300 people and offers courses provided by in-house and visiting natural resource professionals. To support the FWS mission, D&K has provided evaluation and design for…
For the construction of the new US Department of Labor (DOL) New Hampshire Job Corps Center, DuBois & King’s survey crew tied into existing boundary corners and collected 1-ft contour intervals on an undeveloped 20-acre wooded parcel. Our surveyors developed the topographic survey into a 3D-model base plan to assist our design team in performing…
The City of Burlington and Burlington School District required an assessment of regional, neighborhood, and individual school campuses’ travel patterns and access constraints. A school travel plan was needed for ten campuses, including elementary, middle, and high schools, to make recommendations for small- and large-scale products to increase equitable access to public school for all….
D&K provided electrical design for the renovation of a circa-1794, newly relocated, 14,000-SF academic building that housed the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College. This was a “Living Building Challenge” project, constructed to be one of six in the country seeking “Living” status from the International Living Future Institute. The goal was for the…