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The Metro ​Nashville Public Library Parking Garage was due for an expansion, to cater to the growing population in downtown Nashville, TN. The three-story vertical expansion of the existing garage created 350 additional parking spaces. The existing garage is in a tight, active urban space, and the new facility will ease a lot of congestion. A SidePlate design eliminated traditional welded steel frames, reduced the overall steel tonnage, and supported the structure laterally, without diagonal bracing or shear walls.

Click here to view a time-lapse video showing the construction of the Centennial Hills Hospital New Patient Tower in Las Vegas, NV. The five-story, 145,000 square foot expansion will add 56 new patient beds to the hospital, increasing the total bed count to 318. This addition will provide increased capacity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit, Intermediate Unit and Medical Surgical Units across the hospital. SidePlate PLUS designs were used on the project, bringing speed of construction to help the facility to be completed in late 2021.

SidePlate Director, Ryan Smith, was able to visit the Vail Elementary School project in Temecula, CA, and see the construction of the first of many CUUBE projects to be built by The KYA Group. CUUBE is a pre-engineered, permanent structure that offers an array of floor plans to suit the needs of a school district during an expansion. We were able to capture one of the beams being installed, Click Here to view.

Click Here to see what Ryan said about this project. 

The Structural Engineering Podcast Episode 41 - May 15, 2020. 

Our SidePlate team is so proud that the Pfizer Office/Laboratory has been selected for the 2020 Building St. Louis Awards for Public/Private Projects more than $10 million by the St. Louis Business Journal! This four-story, 231,000 square-foot project is located next to our MiTek Corporate office in Chesterfield, MO. It serves as an R&D and process development facility and brought 450 Pfizer's employees that worked around St. Louis under the same roof.

SidePlate was excited to be a part of the ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian, Michigan. The three-story, 215,000 square foot building utilized SidePlate bolted connection designs, improving erection safety and increasing productivity. This new facility will provide much needed care for the area, featuring private patient rooms, telehealth capacities, care collaboration spaces, a 28-bed emergency center, a state-of-the-art surgery center for inpatient and outpatient surgeries, a women’s health center; a pain management clinic, wound care center, specialty suites, and a specialty clinic.

Click Here to read the article by Ideal Contracting. 

Atlas Tube's senior structural engineer, Brad Fletcher, interviews SidePlate's Ryan Smith - April 22, 2020.

Structural Engineering Podcast Episode 24 - September 5th, 2019

In 1995 SidePlate connection designs were introduced to the market to fill a need created after the Northridge CA, earthquake. The connection design required both shop and field welding, proving to be very safe, but not very fast to build. In 2013 SidePlate introduced a field-bolted connection to help speed up the building process and in all areas of the country, it has been a big hit. So it only seems right that on our 25th Anniversary as part of our commitment to Powered by MiTek that we do something big--like introducing two all-bolted connection designs! On July 1, 2020, all of the details will be available, but for now, here is a quick look at both the Wide-Flange All-Bolted and the HSS All-Bolted Connection designs.

IAPMO Evaluation Report - SidePlate Steel Frame Connection Technology: Field-Welded and Field-Bolted Connections. Read Here