Philip Simmons High School

2017 Design Award Winner

Location
Charleston, SC

Structural Engineer
ADC Engineering, Inc.

Architect
McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture

Steel Joist Manufacturer
Canam Steel Corporation

Steel Fabricator
D & T Steel, Inc.

Philip Simmons High School is a new school in Berkeley County, Charleston, South Carolina. The project covers 214,000 SF and includes 275 tons of joist and joist girders, features 120″ deep joist girders spanning 118′-0″, 100″ deep double pitched top chord “gable” joist spanning 60′-0″ and KCS joist in addition to sloping parallel chord underslung joist. The use of sloping joist and double pitched top chord joists offered the architect the ability to design high and low roofs that blend with the architecture style of the Charleston area.

High School

Education

This job consisted of standard K-series joists, joists bearing on curved beams, double-pitched top chord joists and four different bowstring joist profiles.

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Student Life & Recreation Center

Education

Olivet Nazarene University desired a state-of-the-art New Student Life and Recreation Center. The program requirements were to design a new energy efficient student recreation facility with pools, an arena, fitness area, climbing wall, gaming area, study and social areas and a large multi-story entry space.

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Nick Poulakidas Elementary School

Education

The Washoe County School District built this elementary school in order to help meet the growing population demands in the greater Reno/Sparks, NV area.

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