Patriots Plaza II and III, located in the heart of Southwest Washington, DC, have been awarded LEED Core & Shell Gold Certification, making them part of the largest speculative office project in the District to receive a LEED Gold rating. Haynes Whaley’s engineers collaborated with the project team, including Trammell Crow Company, Gensler, B&A Consulting [...]

The New York Times posted a story about Houston in today’s online edition titled “36 Hours in Houston.” Included among the “must-see” stops was Rice University’s Brochstein Pavilion, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners and structurally engineered by Haynes Whaley’s Wally Ford. Author Denny Lee had this to say about the Brochstein Pavilion:
 The skyline goes up, up, [...]

Over the last year, there has been some attention brought to this unique building type.  These light, economical building systems have found a variety of uses, including agricultural, storage, and recreational. 
One major supplier of these buildings, Cover-All Building Systems, recently reached out to their customers with a warning regarding the structural integrity of some of their buildings related to combined [...]

Fannie Mae’s Technology Center in Urbana, MD is celebrating its 5th anniversary and the $1.7 million in energy savings it has realized as the first LEED certified data center in the nation – as reported in a recent Fannie Mae News Release. Haynes Whaley prides itself with being the structural engineer of record on this [...]

Rice University’s recently completed projects, McMurtry and Duncan Residential Colleges, are featured on the cover of the January/February 2010 issue of Texas Architect. The residential complex includes seven buildings that provide students with housing, dining facilities, kitchen servery and upstairs formal meeting rooms, and master’s houses.  The article, written by Fernando Brave, does an excellent job of [...]

MD Anderson and Vaughn Construction, as well as the project team of WHR Architects and Haynes Whaley Associates, celebrated a significant milestone with the topping out of Mid-Campus Building 1 (formally named the Administrative Support Building) on December 22, 2009, nearly one year to the day of the record-setting MAT foundation pour. The topping out celebration [...]

 Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI), based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a developer and manufacturer of devices that treat cardiovascular disease. CSI needed a Houston area facility to service their clients in the Texas Medical Center. Their move into Houston, dubbed “Project Heartbeat,” was planned as a one story, 135,000 square foot build-to-suit structure developed by the City of Pearland [...]

Have you driven around downtown Houston lately? If so, you may have noticed the construction site for a new YMCA facility located at Pease and Milam. Haynes Whaley is providing structural engineering services for this project, working with the architect, Kirksey, and the general contractor, Tellepsen. This new YMCA facility will bear the Tellepsen family name, [...]

In the early morning on Sunday, July 12, 2009, a helicopter lifted the last 30 ft section of the pipe-shaped spire into the air. Two steel workers, perched high up in a temporary “crow nest,” efficiently completed the bolted splice connection before the helicopter released its precarious load. This completes the final installation of the [...]

Haynes Whaley’s latest Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory project was recently featured in the Spring 2009 edition of Gilbane Construction’s “Bulletin”.  Our firm provided the structural engineering services for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.  This recently completed project was the first new facility built for the Department of Homeland [...]