who we are projects services careers people news contact Homearchitecture and the built environmentHatfield Marine Science Center Marine Studies Initiative Building Hatfield Marine Science Center Marine Studies Initiative Building LOCATION Newport, OR OWNER Oregon State University ARCHITECT YGH Architecture CONTRACTOR Andersen Construction Company SUSTAINABILITY LEED Silver (pending) SERVICES/PROJECT TYPE Structural Engineering KPFF provided structural engineering design services for the Hatfield Marine Science Center Marine Studies Building, a 74,000sf research lab and teaching facility on Oregon State University's Newport, Oregon campus. The completed building is seismically separated into two parts: the northern building (lab wing) is a 3-story building that contains the teaching classrooms, faculty offices, and lab space with an occupiable rooftop. The connected southern building (commons wing) is a 2-story building that contains a 250-seat auditorium, the innovation lab, and a 3-story open atrium. The rooftop of the lab building provides vertical evacuation refuge in the event of a tsunami event. The lab wing roof contains the evacuation area while the commons wing has an exterior sloping ramp starting at the southeast corner of the site running up over the building and eventually connecting to the lab wing roof. Both buildings use a deep soil mixing ground improvement system which mitigates the liquefaction hazard and supports the buildings' spread footings. Both buildings have a lateral system using concrete shear walls with steel and slab on metal deck gravity framing. Due to the rooftop evacuation space the building design criteria was above-code. Seismically, both buildings are designed to meet an Immediate Occupancy (IO) structural performance under the MCER (2,500yr event). Additionally, both buildings are designed to resist tsunami inundation loads per ASCE 7-16 with the lab building (containing the rooftop evacuation space) meeting IO for the ASCE 7 MCT (2,500yr) event and the deterministic DOGAMI XXL event. AWARDS & RECOGNITION ACEC Oregon, Engineering Excellence Awards, Project of the Year, 2021 ACEC National, Grand Award, 2021 RELATED PROJECTS Copyright © 2015 KPFF Consulting Engineers. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. Back to Top We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy. Accept