Associate Structural Engineering design services to the 1.2 million square foot convention center in partnership with another Structural Engineering firm.

The MCC includes a 450,000 square foot, 3 story concrete framed parking garage with a capacity of over 2,000 parking spaces under the main exhibit level of the convention floor.

While the structural design of this landmark project was a joint venture between two firms, the structural design and construction administration of the three story parking garage (for MDHA) was the sole responsibility of Logan Patri Engineering, Inc. The cast in place conventionally reinforced parking structure consisted of a 10" flat 2-way slab spanning in between concrete columns at 30' on center either direction. 

The flat slab with no interior beams nor shear caps provided a fast and economical solution for this challenging project as it reduced vertical floor to floor height of the garage.  The flat slab also served as a moment frame to handle the lateral loads imposed by wind and seismic thereby negating the use of intrusive shear walls and or x-bracing. 

The floor to floor height of the garage was 10' which was lesser than a precast structure with clear head height of over 8'.  Even though the parking garage was adjacent to 8th avenue and was three stories below grade, the design provided for rock cut walls 30' tall with no basement concrete walls taller than 15'. 

This design reduced the need for tall costly basement walls.