Interior construction site showing a mini excavator with a green body working in a partially enclosed space. The area has concrete block walls, metal ceiling beams, and exposed dirt floor with debris. Construction equipment and supplies are visible along the walls.

A construction site showing reinforcement steel bars (rebar) being installed against a brick wall. Red pole markers line the top of the wall. Construction equipment including a ladder and piping system is visible in the work area. The ground is dirt and concrete, indicating ongoing construction work.

Outdoor construction area with a brick structure featuring a turnstile gate and a covered entryway. A red ladder leans against the brick wall, and snow covers the ground and surrounding surfaces. A chain-link fence encloses the area, with a larger brick building visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

Building Addition

Located in Horicon, WI

An existing building was demolished, and Shive-Hattery was part of a design-build team which designed and built a new building in its place. The building encloses a busy material and people corridor connecting an existing tunnel to the adjacent building. The existing building included campus utilities which needed to remain in place and in service, and the building layout and design accommodated this with clever use of structural concrete.

The adjacent existing public street required close coordination of structural foundation systems with the contractor’s approach to demolition and the existing buildings fragile foundation system. Incorporating portions of the existing construction into the new saved costly temporary shoring systems and, more importantly, time.

Site regrading and retention walls were installed to allow a patio and a new entrance to an adjacent building at the lower level. The new building entrance was designed to maintain an existing masonry and precast structure in order to save budget.

A new security entrance was also relocated and incorporated into the new construction. Working with and around the existing building structures-to-remain again required careful coordination and unique foundation solutions to save time and money.

In the end, the building exterior is used as a backdrop for an exterior product display area.