Our Work: Civil Engineering

CN Railway New Car Repair Shop

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CN Railroad New Car Repair Center
Location: Memphis, Tennessee Canadian National Railway (CN) reconstructed its Johnston Yard facility located at 2921 Old Horn Lake Road in Memphis, Tennessee.  This project included the construction of a new classification yard, departure tracks, receiving tracks, yardmaster tower, car shop, offices and locomotive shop.  Burr & Cole was the Prime Designer on this project. This project consists of a pre-engineered metal building, 45,000 total square feet, of which 36,000 s.f. of railcar repair shop facility and 9,000 s.f. of office and support.  The repair shop is high bay with approximately 30 feet clear.  The low bay office and support is approximately 12 foot eave height.  It had a total construction cost of $4 million.  This was a fast track, design...
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University of Memphis Law School Relocation & Seismic Upgrade

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Location:  Memphis, Tennessee Architect:  Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects (ANFA) / Fleming Architects Joint Venture The complete renovation of this historic building allowed the engineers at Burr & Cole Consulting Engineers, Inc. a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to access and evaluate major structural components and to apply state-of-the-art seismic analysis and strengthening measures. Though originally built in the early 1880s, over the years it featured a marble exterior, two clock towers on its north and south sides, four lofty-ceilinged courtrooms, brass window cages in the Post Office, hardwood paneling, stone fireplaces, hand-painted wood trim, and other magnificent architectural touches inside and out. Drawings for significant portions of the existing structure were not available. This made for a challenging project. Seismically weak conditions of...
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University of Memphis Synthetic Turf Athletic Field

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Location:  Memphis, Tennessee As the Prime Designer, our design for the football practice facility on the south campus consisted of stripping the top soil and natural turf from Practice Field #4 then installing a new synthetic turf field.  The scope included a concrete perimeter curb, stone base, synthetic turf, and drainage and concrete improvements....
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