Morphy, Makofsky, Inc. provided structural engineering services for the construction of a new three-story school. The building consists of structural steel and concrete framing for the floor beams, girders, and columns. The entire structure is pile-supported with 65-foot-long treated wood piles that achieve a design load of 23 tons. New piling had to be located so as to avoid interferences with existing piling and pile caps where possible. Existing concrete pile caps will be were removed as needed as part of the new construction.

The first floor is raised approximately four feet above the adjacent grade to comply with base flood elevations. The new framing provides spaces for high school classrooms, laboratories, Gymnasium, and a cafeteria.

The upper floors of the building were framed out of structural steel with a concrete-on-metal deck system. The floor system will consist of 1½” deep composite metal decking plus 3¼” of lightweight concrete topping for a total thickness of 4¾”. This system will span across composite steel beams and girders supported by steel columns. Typical beam spacing was on the order of 7 feet.

The various roofs consist of 1½” deep roof decking spanning across open web steel bar joists framing into steel girders supported by steel columns. Typical joist spacing was approximately 5 feet on center. Where required steel framing will be sloped to provide drainage. The lateral load-resisting system consists of steel chevron and cross bracing.

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