Julien
Engineering

Building Conversion / Renovation

Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church at St. Anthony St., New Orleans, LA
Designed:  1997        Construction Complete:   1998
Description:

• Civil and Structural Engineering design
• Development of plans and specs for scope to convert an existing
  abandoned grocery store into a place of worship
• Existing 1-1/2-story building (32,950 sq. ft.), structural steel columns,
  steel bar joists, masonry exterior walls, interior  concrete slab
• Renovations included removal of some interior columns and load
  bearing framing and replacement with custom made structural truss
  and steel pipe columns, reconfiguring structural framing on second
  floor for new spaces, replacement of  damaged framing, addition of
  second floor concrete deck, addition of elevator shaft, installation of
  interior cold formed metal framing, reinforcement of cracked masonry walls
• Associated site work included complete replacement of parking lot
  pavement, reconfiguring and replacement with reinforced portland
  cement concrete pavement, landscaping, etc.