UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
STUDENT RECREATION CENTER

This $37.5 million structure contains 128,000 square feet of space including 6 gymnasiums, fitness & weight rooms, and an indoor jogging track.  Structural highlights include the custom designed steel trusses that span 105 feet to allow for the stacked gymnasiums and a custom designed curved plate beam to support the cantilevered jogging track.

RAI Engineering was awarded the 2014 National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA) Excellence in Structural Engineering Award for the design of this structure.

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BELKNAP ACADEMIC CLASSROOM BUILDING

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
SHUMAKER RESEARCH BUILDING

This $47.8 million structure houses 103,261 square feet of state-of-the-art equipment for microtechnology research and education.  The research performed within the nano-scale research labs requires extreme vibration control.  The level of vibration mitigation is such that a person walking down an adjacent hallway can not be detected by the research equipment or the results would be flawed.  The structural had to be specially designed to mitigate this vibration, as well as the vibration coming from the nearby railroad track.

National vibration experts stated that it would be impossible to meet the vibration criteria required at this building location.  RAI Engineering performed exhaustive research into vibration studies.  The end result was a structure that met the required vc-d vibration criteria and received national acclaim for vibration mitigation.

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sTUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER ADDITION

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JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE
aLLIED HEALTH BUILDING

RAI Engineering designed this $25.6 million structure.  It contains 106,866 square feet of classroom, laboratory, and office spaces including a 6,700 square foot lecture hall on the first floor.  The framing system is a concrete moment-resisting frame.  Multiple column footings were located directly adjacent to the existing building.  The eccentrically loaded pile caps required custom designed tie beams to transfer the overturning moment, along with custom designed shear framing to distribute the large column shear loads at the edge of the pile cap.  The large lecture hall on the first floor required 60 foot long concrete beams to span over the space.

GATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Boone Campus

This is the first building on the Boone Campus.  It is 34,000 square feet in size with a construction cost of $5.3 million.  The framing system is a combination of steel and load bearing masonry.  The structure contains a circular stairway surrounded by glass framing, as well as several other curved glass walls.  The curved steel facade required detailed steel framing to support the glass walls.