Watch Hill Yacht Club Enters Summer Season One Year After Elevation

websitebuilder • May 14, 2018

Westerly, RI

The Watch Hill Yacht Club is about to enter it’s busiest season one year after its elevation. The Club is a three-story club-house with a restaurant on the upper floor and is supported over the water on steel beams and timber piles. In 2006, the building was renovated with an almost complete rebuild of the upper attic level. Due to increased use of the clubhouse, a third floor was slated to be added to the structure in 2012. Structural evaluation of the building and economics of construction dictated that the new floor be added at the existing deck level, while preserving the recently completed building renovation. A test boring program, which revealed the presence of approximately 30 feet of soft fill and organic soils underlain by granular soils, confirmed that the existing timber pile foundations were not adequate to support the additional loads, and also satisfy current high hazard code requirements for flooding and hurricane forces. End-bearing steel H-pile foundations and a new steel-framed floor were designed to support the new three-story structure.

Architect: Burgin Lambert Architects

Contractor: A/Z Corporation

Read more about this project in the news: The Day & The Westerly Sun

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David L. Freed, PE Associate at GNCB Retires

By websitebuilder • 02 Jan, 2024

After over 50 rewarding years of geotechnical engineering practice, the last 28 of which were with GNCB as an Associate, David Freed retired on December 31, 2023. In 1995, David established the geotechnical engineering practice that provided many of GNCB’s clients, as well as his core clients, an integrated engineering service in foundation design. David’s presence both enhanced the structural engineering staff with a greater understanding of geotechnical theory and practice as well as provided the firm’s clients with a fortuitous combination of structural and geotechnical engineering services that lasted throughout the project. David’s experiences at GNCB provided the basis for his paper “Benefits of In-House Collaboration of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Services” that appeared in the 2008 Geotechnical Special Publication No. 180 that honored his University of Florida professor, Dr. John Schmertmann. David’s geotechnical work crossed a wide range of projects and foundation types; he developed an expertise in resolving construction problems. He will be greatly missed at the firm, but please join us in wishing David all the best in his retirement.

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