RME provided surveying, civil and structural engineering design services for the GSA's new $43.7 million Federal Courthouse in downtown Albuquerque (completed in 1998). Encompassing 254,000 square feet on eight floors, along with a detached underground parking structure, RME's design called for augercast piles, composite deck and floor framing, and concentric braced frames.

Shiprock Alternative Schools, Inc. - Shiprock, New Mexico

		Project consisted of six buildings totaling 148,000 SF encompassing school administration, elementary, mid-high and high school classrooms and facilities. A variety of materials including steel, concrete, pre-cast concrete, concrete unit masonry and glulam lumber were used for the structure. Two of the buildings feature architecturally exposed pitched, shallow barrel-vaulted roofs terminating into curved exterior walls. Construction was completed in 2002 with a total construction cost of $20 million.

RME provided the structural design for this $7 million, three-story, 92,000 square foot structure with basement. This project, finished in 1992, required heavy loading design and used concrete dome slabs. The basement is reinforced concrete walls with concrete subterranean utility tunnel which ties into New Mexico State's utility distribution system.

Rio Rancho High School - New Mexico

Red Mountain provided surveying, civil engineering design and structural engineering design for this project consisting of three separate buildings.  One building is a new 47,000 square foot two story Visual Arts building featuring a 60 foot high "Solstice Tower" and an auditorium.  The second building is a new 2000 seat concrete amphitheater with a stage covered by a soaring cantilevered canopy.  The third building is a completely renovated and remodeled adobe and wood viga framed structure, originally built as a school.  The 26,000 square foot renovated building houses a commercial kitchen, restaurant and offices.  Construction of the first and third buildings was completed in 2001.  Total construction cost is $11 million.

40,000 square foot addition includes new gallery space, special events area and grand hall featuring 28 foot tall architecturally exposed concrete columns and clerestory windows shaded by dramatic cantilevered steel framed roof. Construction completed in late 2004.

125,000 square foot three story composite steel framed office building with basement parking garage. Building is supported on drilled pier foundations, and utilizes concrete shear walls for lateral force resistance. Construction completed in mid 2003.

Phases I, II, & III, includes Bus Fueling Facility, Bus Wash Building and 60,000 square foot Bus Maintenance and Administration Building for City of Albuquerque. $15 million project is currently under construction. Phase IV, which includes a 27,000 square foot addition to the Maintenance Building, four 25,000 square foot Bus Storage Canopies and an Operations Building, is nearing completion of construction documents and is scheduled to bid in March, 2005.

Four story 71,000 square foot concrete frame office building with a full basement. Height restrictions necessitated use of post tensioned flat plate floors and roof. Large column to column spacing resulting in very high slab shears at the columns was accommodated by the use of steel, wide flange shear heads and the use of doubled shear heads at special heavy load locations. Concrete shear walls provide seismic lateral force resistance. Foundation utilizes concrete caissons drilled into volcanic tuff bedrock. Project was completed in 1996 with a construction cost of $12 million.

202,000 square foot, five story post-tensioned concrete structure with basement. Steel framed bridge connecting new building to existing building second floor pedestrian bridge over Lomas Boulevard. Construction completed in 1992.

UNM Ambulatory Surgery Center - Albuquerque, NM

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