Dartmouth, N.S.

With almost 50 years of engineering experience, BMR has tackled large scale projects, managing multi-million dollar budgets and diverse professional teams. They've also brought their extensive skill base to smaller projects. While the job at hand may have a smaller square footage, the need for innovative solutions and expert construction is never small.
Summit Park is an award winning example of BMR's ability to achieve excellence on every scale. Summit Park is a three-storey, 69,000 square foot office building. The roof is framed with open web steel joists and steel roof deck.

The two upper floors use the "Hambro" composite floor system. The "Hambro" floor is an economical hybrid steel/concrete system utilizing the concrete slab as both the compression flange of the steel joist and the structural floor. "Hambro" results in a relatively shallow floor structure, which reduces the floor to floor, and ultimately, the building's height. Steel columns and beams support the centre section of Summit Park's two suspended floors and roof. Load bearing concrete tilt-up panels (cast on site) support the outer edges of the floors and roof. The tilt-up panels extend from the foundation to the roof providing both the cladding and exterior structure. The panels resist vertical and lateral loads, thereby eliminating the need for structural steel and x-bracing around the perimeter of the building.

The tilt-up panels are constructed with spandrel beams at each floor and at the roof. Column sections, which form the ends of the panels, support the spandrel beams. There are three continuous bands of horizontal glazing around the perimeter of the building. Notches are formed in the column sections of the tilt-up panels to allow the glazing to be continuous.
This building won an Achievement Award from the Tilt-up Concrete Association.

BMR has designed numerous innovative tilt-up structures including a four-storey office building, multi-use warehouses and structures with roof top parking.