Project Complexities

The task at hand consisted of renovating an existing building originally built in the 1940s into a state-of-the-art multi level 6,000 sq. ft. restaurant. Where the conventional approach would have been to raze the existing building and start anew, zoning limitations prevented a complete reconstruction. 

A minimum of 50% of the existing structure had to remain. The project was conceived as an insertion of a new building structure within the footprint of the existing building, where only two of the original walls would remain full height to comply with zoning.  

Team Collaboration

Trogon initiated a constructability review to explore alternatives that would yield the safest solution, minimizing the impact on construction activities. 

In collaboration with the site/demolition and structural steel contractors including the design team, a solution to erect an independent self-supporting temporary horizontal bracing structure within the existing building was agreed upon.

Each temporary column, beam and brace were strategically located taking into account the permanent structure to be erected later in the process. This construction approach allowed demolition to proceed opening up the project to allow foundation work and steel fabrication to start simultaneously.