Description:

Marvin Braude parking structure is a 3 level subterranean garage with a well-landscaped plaza podium lid, servicing the Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Service Center in Van Nuys, CA. The below grade parking required three levels of shoring and shotcrete retaining walls with efficient structural design for post-tensioned slab stressing, without hindering the construction schedule. The plaza / garage footprint is approximately 37,000 square feet.

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Structural system for the structure is concrete post-tensioned slabs with concrete retaining walls supported on a spread footings and eccentric strip footings.

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