Tipping Structural Engineers by Tipping Structural Engineers

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ENGINEERING TO ACHIEVE OUR CLIENTS’ BUSINESS AND PROJECT GOALS, SINCE 1983. Tipping Structural Engineers’ approach unites

fresh perspectives, courageous creativity, technical mastery, and an advanced understanding of structural behavior to bring the greatest value in structural and seismic engineering to our clients’ projects.

COLLABORATION So that the greatest advantages might accrue to our clients’

projects, Tipping aims for early collaboration with our partners in design and construction. By working together from the outset, we build value engineering into the design process, drawing on our staff’s technical expertise and trademark ingenuity. Our approach, inventiveness, and drive to control project costs result in construction savings, expedited schedules, and improved performance. Major systems—mechanical, structural, and seismic—can be more simply and economically integrated, eliminating clumsy detailing and improving overall efficiency. For the owner, integrated value engineering is perhaps the greatest benefit of this early collaboration. By working together before design begins, the design and construction team establishes a common basis for cost-saving solutions and has the opportunity to make better decisions as the project unfolds. INNOVATION Taking the stance that structural design is a creative art, over

the decades Tipping has developed a wide range of award-winning, innovative seismic solutions that have resulted in proven performance for projects with complex functional challenges: We have pioneered self-centering, vertically posttensioned shear wall and rocking frame systems that have delivered cost-efficient, high performance to a wide array of projects. As lead participants in the FEMA P807 project, we designed and developed a method of practicable, cost-efficient proportional-strength retrofitting of weak-story wood-framed buildings, a revolutionary concept in seismic rehabilitation. We’ve pioneered green-building solutions, which include resource-efficient framing and the use of low-cement concrete of our own designs. For more than thirty years, research, development, and continual creative exploration have been at the core of our practice.

TIPPING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS 1906 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, California 94704 (510) 549-1906 www.tippingstructural.com In Business Since 1983 Total Employees 32

KEY CONTACTS Steven B. Tipping, SE, Founding Principal s.tipping@tippingstructural.com Marc Steyer, SE, LEED AP, Principal m.steyer@tippingstructural.com Gina Tesser Phelan, Associate Strategic Development Director g.phelan@tippingstructural.com

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Beyond being technically superior, Tipping is conscientious of the programmatic needs of buildings and extremely creative in finding economical solutions to complex problems. Their creativity and economical approach have been integral to numerous successful programs for TMG Partners. We consider them to be one of our best relationships. MATT FIELD | CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER AT TMG PARTNERS

One of the secrets of my success as a developer of old industrial warehouses is that my first call is always Steve Tipping.... With his experience and insights, I am confident that I will not waste my precious rehab dollars on the structural upgrade. RICK HOLLIDAY | FOUNDER AT HOLLIDAY DEVELOPMENT

Tipping’s mastery of the technical aspects of their trade is obvious in everything they do, but the artfulness with which they use their science is what is truly remarkable. They’ve helped us to see the art in their science, judiciously pushing the boundaries of engineering to help achieve our project and mission goals.... For us, Tipping is not a consultant, they are a partner. TOM EARLEY | FMR. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AT BRIDGE HOUSING

The overall balance we experience when working with Tipping is special. They are technically creative, collaborative in every respect when it comes to constructability, are vested in cost effective designs, pay extreme attention to detail and blend comprehensive and unique sustainability elements into their structural evaluations. They work with us as a team, appreciate our view point, value our experience, and are committed to helping turn designs into completed projects. PHIL WILLIAMS, PE, LEED AP | FMR. VICE PRESIDENT AT WEBCOR BUILDERS

FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS, Steve Tipping has advanced the science and art of structural engineering, pioneering creative yet pragmatic design solutions for a broad range of projects. His accomplishments in seismic retrofit design have been especially crucial to the earthquake-prone Bay Area. At the same time, his emphasis on constructability has culminated in an expertise in cost- and resourceefficient solutions. Steve pioneered the use of vertical post-tensioning to deliver self-centering capability to concrete walls; Tipping Structural Engineers has applied progressive iterations of this lateral system to the design of bold projects such as the SF Public Utilities Commission headquarters, the Rene Cazenave Apartments, and UC Berkeley’s Campbell Hall. Most recently, Steve applied a novel retrofit system for 680 Folsom in San Francisco; its design is based on the effects of the central spine (shinbashira) pivoting in a stone well found in centuries’ old Japanese pagodas. In early 2013, Steve was included for the second time in Engineering News Record’s Top 25 Newsmakers, for his post-tensioned concrete-core shear-wall innovation as it contributed to the great success of the SFPUC headquarters. In 2006 Steve was selected as a Top 25 Newsmakers for his research developing a simple, corrugated-metal shear-wall assembly that has great potential for lowering construction costs and improving the seismic performance of multiunit housing projects. This research project also earned Steve an Excellence in Structural Engineering Award in 2009 from SEAONC. After working for several Bay Area engineering firms, he founded Steve Tipping and Associates in 1983. Steve served as a board member and president (2002–2003) of SEAONC and was inducted as a fellow of the organization in 2004. A graduate of Clemson University, Steve began his engineering career as first lieutenant with the US Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and soon thereafter completed a tour of duty in Vietnam.

STEVEN B. TIPPING, SE FOUNDING PRINCIPAL

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Moscone Center Expansion San Francisco, CA 680 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA SFPUC Headquarters | 525 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA Mare Island Buildings 149 and 151 Vallejo, CA Hearst Greek Theatre Berkeley CA UCB Durant Hall Berkeley CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA UCB Haas School of Business Connie and Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, CA 333 Grant Avenue San Francisco CA Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera San Francisco, CA Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (2011 post-earthquake evaluation and retrofit design) Washington DC Carquinez Senior Apartments (Historic) Richmond CA Jessie Square Garage and Plaza San Francisco, CA Pacific Place | Palomar Hotel San Francisco CA One Market Street San Francisco CA Eastside College Prep’s Performing Arts Center Palo Alto, CA The Bentley School Lafayette, CA Head Royce School Oakland, CA Prospect Sierra School El Cerrito, CA

License: SE, CA 2257, CE, CA 25101

LEO PANIAN PRACTICES FROM THE INTERSECTION of

seismic engineering, advanced analytics, and new technology, delivering to his clients effective, cost-efficient, and high-performance projects. He has spent his career creating practicable structural solutions founded on an expert understanding of building performance, cutting-edge academic research, and technical skill. Moreover, Leo inspires younger engineers to think critically about technical conventions and established norms in resolving complex functional problems. His early experience in bridge engineering, which included the rehabilitation of Big Sur’s Bixby Creek Bridge, led Leo to apply vertical post-tensioning technology to building design, a crucial development in Tipping’s current mastery in costefficient, self-centering structures. His passion for extending the life of historic structures by creatively melding the archaic and the modern has deepened the firm’s capabilities in preservation and seismic retrofit. Leo has led and managed many of Tipping’s ambitious projects, including the SF Public Utilities Commission Headquarters (SFPUC), UC Berkeley’s Campbell Hall, and Wareham Development’s 740 Heinz; he is currently principalin-charge for San Francisco’s Moscone Center expansion. Several of his projects have garnered regional and national recognition for innovation and engineering excellence, including the SFPUC, Berkeley’s 2850 Telegraph Avenue, and the historic Pacific Place and Landmark at One Market Street in San Francisco. Leo has played a key role in Tipping’s business operations and management, integrating staff scheduling and workflow with accounting and information architecture. He has instilled a culture of best engineering practices by encouraging generative learning, implementing and guiding technical strategy, and raising the bar for graphic standards. Holding an MS in structural engineering from UC Berkeley and a BS in structural engineering from UC San Diego, Leo joined Tipping in 1997 and was named principal in 2011.

LEO PANIAN, SE PRINCIPAL

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

License: SE, CA 4526

SF Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA 1700 Webster Street Oakland, CA 2001 Market Street San Francisco, CA Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA Wailea Golf and Beach Club Wailea, HI San Francisco Public Utilities Commission HQ San Francisco, CA UCB Haas School of Business Connie and Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA UCM Student Activities and Athletic Center Merced, CA 740 Heinz Avenue Berkeley, CA SSU MasterCard Pavilion at Weill Commons Rohnert Park, CA SJSU Student Wellness Center San Jose, CA Golden Gate Bridge Visitors Pavilion San Francisco, CA 2850 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA Square, Inc. San Francisco, CA 650 Townsend | Zynga San Francisco, CA National Park Service 5-year ID/IQ for Evaluation and Upgrade of Existing Buildings Various locations in AK, CA, HI, DC Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (2011 post-earthquake evaluation and retrofit design) Washington DC Pacific Place | Palomar Hotel San Francisco CA

MARC STEYER’S WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCE includes work for engineering, architecture, and construction firms. Since joining Tipping Structural Engineers in 2005, Marc has combined his engineering and management expertise on projects involving both new and existing structures, with an emphasis on sustainable design and seismic safety. He started at Tipping as a project engineer before becoming project manager in 2011 and associate in 2012. In 2014 Marc was named principal. As the lead engineer for several projects, Marc was able to effectively incorporate Tipping’s innovative, cost effective use of vertically post-tensioned concrete walls for seismic resistance and has co-authored articles in Concrete International and the Post-Tensioning Institute Journal on these breakthroughs. One of Marc’s first projects at Tipping was the award-winning seismic retrofit of 2850 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley; other Tipping projects in which he played a key role include Barneys NY, the Living Building-certified Omega Center for Sustainable Living, and Pixar Animation Studios. Marc’s significant contributions to recent projects include the structural design of Campbell Hall, a new sixstory concrete Astrophysics Department building for the University of California at Berkeley, and the new, nine-story 2001 Market Street in San Francisco, for which he served as lead engineer. Both projects were designed to achieve LEED Gold certification. After earning his AB from Princeton and MEng from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marc gained nearly three years of experience at HOK in St. Louis, collaborating with architects on integrated, sustainable designs for a variety of institutional buildings.

MARC STEYER, SE, LEED AP PRINCIPAL

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

License: SE, CA 6022

Square, Inc. San Francisco, CA The Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA Children’s Day School | 601 Dolores San Francisco, CA 650 Townsend | Zynga HQ San Francisco, CA Sutter Health | 1375 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA Sutter Health | Van Ness Medical Office Building San Francisco, CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories’ FlexLab Berkeley, CA UCM Student Activities and Athletic Center Merced, CA 826 Valencia @ 180 Golden Gate San Francisco, CA 333 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA Pixar Animation Studios Emeryville, CA Google TIs Mountain View, CA 2850 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA Omega Center for Sustainable Living Rhinebeck, New York 2675 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 1950 Mission Street San Francisco, CA Hunters Point Shipyard, Block 52 San Francisco, CA Marea Alta Housing San Leandro, CA 2001 Market Street San Francisco, CA

MIKE KOROLYK HAS MADE SUBSTANTIAL contributions

to Tipping’s practice of engineering, weaving dynamic creativity and the ability to effectively organize information and design with his masterful understanding of performance-based seismic design, analysis, and computer programming. As a result, he sees solutions where others would see only obstacles. His design of analysis strategies and authoring of analytic tools have driven much of the firm’s success in performance-based seismic design in the last ten years. Mike was crucial to the design of many of Tipping’s award-winning projects: the San Francisco Public Utilities Headquarters, the Rene Cazenave Apartments, the Carquinez Senior Apartments, 680 Folsom Street, and UC Berkeley’s Hearst Greek Theatre, among others. He also performed the seismic evaluation of the Washington Monument after Virginia’s 5.8 Mineral Earthquake in 2011 . Notably, Mike was the primary force responsible for the analytical framework and execution of FEMA P-807: Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofit of Weak-Story Multiunit WoodFrame Structures. The intention behind this FEMA-driven project was to create a method of evaluation and retrofit technically robust enough to predict seismic performance, while also being employable by engineers who may have limited experience in performance-based design and nonlinear response history analysis. Moreover, Mike conceived of and created the Weak-Story Tool, a software program that accompanies the guidelines. It allows the user to combine shear-wall backbone curves and calculates quantities needed for the evaluation. The CAD-like graphical interface gives users access to the analytical results and helps to protect against errors in input and bookkeeping. Mike earned his BS in civil engineering and his MS in structural engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Tipping in 2006 and was named associate in 2011, principal in 2014.

MIKE KOROLYK, SE PRINCIPAL

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

License: SE, CA 5274

Berkeley Hotel | 2129 Shattuck Berkeley, CA 1990 Folsom Family Housing San Francisco, CA 680 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA Rene Cazenave Apartments San Francisco, CA 6465 San Pablo Family Housing Oakland, CA Madison@14th Street Apartments Oakland, CA San Francisco Public Utilities Commission HQ San Francisco, CA The David Brower Center and Oxford Plaza Housing Berkeley, CA UCB Bancroft Residence Hall Berkeley, CA UCB Units 1, 2, and 3 Seismic Retrofits Berkeley, CA UCB Lewis Hall Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit Berkeley, CA UCB Hearst Greek Theatre Retrofit and Renovation Berkeley, CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA 1330 Broadway Seismic Retrofit Oakland, CA Bishop Ranch AT&T South Wing Retrofit San Ramon, CA FEMA P-807: Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofit of Weak-Story Multiunit Wood-Frame Structures and Weak-Story Tool Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (2011 post-earthquake evaluation and retrofit design) Washington, DC 75 Hawthorne Plaza San Francisco, CA

Higher Ed UCB Bancroft Residence Hall Berkeley, CA UCB Haas School of Business Connie and Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA UCB Dwight Child Care Center Berkeley, CA UCB Hearst Greek Theatre Seismic Studies and Corrections Berkeley, CA UCB Units 1, 2, and 3 Undergraduate Housing Seismic Retrofits Berkeley, CA UCB Channing Bowditch Apartments Berkeley, CA UCB Ida Jackson Graduate House Berkeley, CA UCB Durant Hall Historic Preservation and Renovation Berkeley, CA

UC Berkeley’s Campbell Hall

UCB Manville Hall Bridging Docs Berkeley, CA UCB Zellerbach Hall TIs Berkeley, CA UCD Tercero Housing Seismic Study Davis, CA UCD Segundo Housing Seismic Study and Retrofit Davis, CA UCD Castilian Hall Residence Seismic Retrofit and Renovation Davis, CA College of Marin Aquatic Center Kentfield, CA UCM Student Activities and Athletics Center Merced, CA Stanford University’s Escondido Village Student Housing Palo Alto, CA

Evergreen Valley College Gullo Student Center San Jose, CA SJSU Student Wellness Center San Jose, CA UCSF Child, Teen, and Family Center and Department of Psychiatry Building San Francisco, CA UCSF Minnesota Street Graduate Student and Trainee Housing San Francisco, CA UCSB Ocean Sciences Education Building Santa Barbara, CA Berea College’s EcoVillage Berea, KY

Stanford University’s Richard W. Lyman Graduate Residences Palo Alto, CA SSU MasterCard Pavilion AT Weill Commons Rohnert Park, CA

ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

SAN JOSE STATE STUDENT WELLNESS CENTER SAN JOSE, CA

• New steel moment-frame building accommodates outpatient primary and prevention care services serving the students, staff, and educators at San Jose State University. • Three stories high, the structure includes setbacks on the first and second floors. • The facility is a Type II-B structure and meets the requirements of LEED Gold-NC certification. • The design incorporates high-efficiency floor plates, higher-than-average floor-to-floor heights, and a uniform-bay-sized structure designed to support planning flexibility. • In addition, the plan allows for the discreet arrival and departure options for counseling patients and a small clinic pod on level one for after-hours use.

Architect: Ratcliff Architects Owner: San Jose State University Delivery method: Design-build Size: 60,000 gsf Construction cost: $36.5 million Completion: 2015 INITIATED AS TIPPING MAR

HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CONNIE & KEVIN CHOU HALL BERKELEY, CA

• Part of the Haas School’s master planning project, this six-story building—with a total of 858 classroom seats— supports the expansion of the school’s MBA program. • Chou Hall houses a 3,000 sf café, 8 tiered lecture halls, 4 flat flexible classrooms, and 28 study rooms. A light steelframed upper story provides large, open 300-person event space with an unobstructed view of San Francisco Bay. • The east wing is embedded two stories into the hillside, incorporating an auditorium and mechanical basement. • The lateral system consists of vertically post-tensioned shear walls that return to plumb after a large earthquake, preventing permanent post-earthquake deformations. • Tipping’s contributions to the sustainability goals of the project include specifying low-cement concrete and highrecycled-content steel, and designing resilient and costeffective seismic systems to minimize life-cycle costs.

Architect: Perkins and Will Developer: Partnership for Haas Preeminence General Contractor: Vance Brown Size: 80,000 gsf Construction cost: $40 million Completion: Fall 2017

CAMPBELL HALL BERKELEY, CA

• A seven-level concrete and post-tensioned concrete building designed to self-center after a significant earthquake. • Upper levels house low-intensity labs, academic offices, instructional spaces, and a rooftop telescope observatory. • Below-grade level incorporates low-vibration physics research laboratories and associated support functions. • Performance-based structural design grounded in nonlinear response-history analysis included slab isolation, nonferrous reinforcing, and other specialized features designed to support high-precision equipment. • Structural solution achieved a cost savings of more than $400,000 and improved performance when compared to the prescriptive code design of conventional shear walls. • Tipping spearheaded the design of low-cement, slagbased concrete mixes, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of the project.

LEED Gold-NC Certified, including two design innovation credits for resilient structure and green-concrete design Architect: STUDIOS Architecture Contractor: Hunt Construction Group Owner: University of California, Berkeley Size: 89,000 gsf Construction cost: $42 million Completed: 2014 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS CENTER MERCED, CA

• A design-build, fast-tracked project delivered on time and on budget, the structure has a shed-like form evoking the agricultural vernacular of California’s Central Valley. • Structural steel was chosen to frame the sloping roof forms, both for it’s versatility and construction speed. • Satisfying peer review requirements, locking down steel design for an early mill order, documenting the design for phased permitting/bidding, and providing rapid response during construction services were all integral to speedy delivery. • During the last month of CDs, we coordinated closely with the structural steel subcontractor to incorporate their input and preferences, wherever possible, into the final details. This allowed the steel detailer to begin shop drawings prior to completion of CDs, without sacrificing efficiency or quality.

LEED Platinum Architect: WRNS Studio Developer: UC Merced General Contractor: McCarthy Building Co. Size: 21,000 gsf Construction cost: $6.5 million Completed: 2012 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

OCEAN SCIENCES EDUCATION BUILDING SANTA BARBARA, CA

• Built to serve as a center for collaborative research and for educating students of all ages interested in marine science, a partnership between UCSB’s Marine Science Institute and NOAA’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. • Half of the building houses new headquarters for administrators and staff of the marine sanctuary and marine ecology researchers. The other half is the state-of-the-art OCTOS, a facility for research, marine science education, and labs for teacher training. The ground floor houses a wet lab, including tanks and artificial habitats for sea-life observation. • The first level of each wing of the two-story structure has CMU shear walls supporting a post-tensioned concrete podium slab; the second story is framed with wood. The wings share a covered central courtyard featuring exterior walkways and bridges, and a thirty-foot-tall, concreteframed kelp tank.

LEED Gold certified Architect: EHDD Architecture Owner: UC Santa Barbara Size: 16,500 gsf Construction cost: $7 million Completed: 2013 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

Schools The Bentley School Lafayette, CA Berkeley Montessori School Berkeley, CA Bishop O’Dowd High School, Environmental Science Center Oakland, CA The Chartwell School Seaside, CA Children’s Day School | 601 Dolores Conversion and Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA Children’s Day School | St Joseph’s Hall Renovation and Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA Crystal Springs Uplands Middle School Belmont, CA Crystal Springs’ Griffon Athletic Center Hillsborough, CA De La Salle High School STREAM Center Concord, CA East Side College Preparatory School’s Performing Arts Center East Palo Alto, CA FUSD Classroom Replacement/Expansion (6 schools, 7 buildings) Fremont, CA

Nueva High School at Bay Meadows

Head Royce School Oakland, CA Junipero Serra High School, Center for Arts and Sciences and Aquatics Center San Mateo, CA Lick Wilmerding High School, Art Studio and Library Building San Francisco, CA Lick Wilmerding High School, Arts Building and Theatre Expansion San Francisco, CA LOSD’s Live Oak Child Development Center Santa Cruz, CA Marin Country Day School, Steps 1 and 2 Corte Madera, CA

Sacred Heart Schools’ Michael Homer Science & Student Life Center Atherton, CA SFUSD Ruth Asawa School of the Arts | 135 Fell San Francisco, CA SRUSD’s Dougherty Valley High School San Ramon, CA SRUSD’s Gale Ranch Middle School San Ramon, CA SRUSD’s Venture School San Ramon, CA SSFUSD Classroom Replacement (10 schools, 40 classroom buildings) South San Francisco, CA

Notre Dame Gymnasium and Kitchen Belmont, CA Nueva High School at Bay Meadows San Mateo, CA Schools of the Sacred Heart: Stuart Hall Renovation and Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA

CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL BELMONT, CA

• This new middle school campus comprises three structures: a main academic building, a gymnasium and sports facility, and multipurpose structure with café. • Given the tight budget constraints for this project, our office is working closely with the architect and builder to investigate different building types and lateral systems for the gymnasium and café buildings. • As such, we are providing separate pricing schematics for each building type under consideration to determine the most cost-effective structural solution to meet the client’s programmatic requirements. Building types being considered are structural steel, concrete tilt-up, and CMU. • This collaborative design approach will continue into future phases of the project where detailing concepts will be coordinated with the contractor to produce final construction documents.

Architect: Bora Architects Owner: Crystal Springs Uplands Size: 48,000 sf Construction cost: $25 million Under construction

DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL STREAM INNOVATION CENTER CONCORD, CA

• The STREAM (science, technology, robotics, engineering, art, and math) Innovation Center supports the integration of student learning, experience, and innovation across the sciences and the humanities. • The building was designed to encourage collaboration among students and across projects, with state-of-theart laboratories integrated with classrooms. Conference spaces and department offices are located adjacent to teaching spaces to further encourage sharing and learning experiences. • The structure is constructed with reinforced concrete using post-tensioned floor slabs supported on a regularly arranged grid of columns and shear walls. • The largest building on campus, it was designed to maximize energy efficiency and features solar-tracking operable sunshades as well as exposed thermal mass and radiant conditioning.

Architect: Ratcliff Architects Owner: De La Salle High School Size: 39,000 sf Construction cost: $18 million Completed: August 2015

CHILDREN’S DAY SCHOOL | 601 DOLORES SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• The conversion and seismic retrofit of an existing woodframed and unreinforced brick masonry church to a modern school with multipurpose and flexible teaching spaces. • The project comprised the preservation of an historic exterior and interior sanctuary, including a wood-framed gabled roof, decorative ceilings, and other finishes. New elements were sensitively designed to minimize their impact on the historic fabric. • The structural scope included the complete reconstruction of an existing floor and roof with new steel framing and concrete shear walls to meet new code standards. • Sustainable design goals dictated the integration of systems with natural ventilation and lighting. • Tipping worked closely with the owner, architect, and contractor from prepurchase consultation and feasibility studies to concept designs and construction plans; we created detailed 3D structural models to facilitate coordination.

Architect: Jensen Architects Owner: Children’s Day School Size: 22,000 sf Construction cost: $12 million Completed: 2015

NUEVA HIGH SCHOOL SAN MATEO, CA

• New campus for 400 to 450 students, grades 9 through 12. • Consists of a classroom and a gymnasium building (connected by a student center wing) accommodating science labs, classrooms, student lounges, administrative offices, food service, a writing and research center, athletic facilities, and outdoor courtyard spaces over parking. • The gymnasium building features exposed custom structural steel trusses supporting the roof and architecturally featured PV arrays. The gym space itself includes an acoustically isolated floor supported on the second story, over office space beneath. • Worked closely with the design and construction teams to create and support architectural design features including custom sunshades, circular skylights, exposed steel trusses, canopies, and signage.

LEED Platinum target Architect: LMS Architects Owner: Nueva High School Size: 140,000 sf Construction cost: $43 million Completed: 2014 Photo: Kyle Jeffers EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

JUNIPERO SERRA CENTER FOR ARTS & SCIENCES | AQUATICS CENTER SAN MATEO, CA

• Phase II of a four-phase master plan for Junipero Serra, involving a new two-story building centered on campus to replace outdated and too-small facilities as well as to house programs for art, music, and the sciences. • The new construction accommodates a large and acoustically sophisticated music classroom on the ground floor; a 25-yard-by-38-meter competition-level pool for swimming and water polo; lockers for the swim team, as well as spaces for pool equipment; and an elevated wing that houses the academic resource center and five science classrooms. • Sliding doors allow the art classrooms on the ground floor to open up to the Fine Arts Courtyard. • The building is constructed of concrete and supported on drilled, cast-in-place concrete piers. • The project included the remodeling of several isolated areas in the adjacent buildings.

Architect: Ratcliff Architecture Owner: Junipero Serra High School Size: 25,000 sf Construction cost: $21 million Completed: 2011 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

Retrofits 155 5th Street San Francisco, CA 278 Post Street San Francisco, CA 333 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 400 Post Street San Francisco, CA 475 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 600 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 633 Folsom San Francisco, CA 680 Folsom | 50 Hawthorne San Francisco, CA 729 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 1000 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 1275 Market Street San Francisco, CA

Clocktower Lofts

1275 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 1455 Market Street San Francisco, CA

801 Anthony Berkeley, CA

2300 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA

2150 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA

Children’s Day School | 601 Dolores Conversion and Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA

2850 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA

Children’s Day School | St. Joseph’s Hall San Francisco, CA Clocktower Lofts San Francisco, CA Coffin-Redington Building (300 Beale) San Francisco, CA The Landmark at One Market Street San Francisco, CA One South Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA Ritz-Carlton Hotel San Francisco, CA Pacific Place San Francisco, CA Presidio: Buildings 36, 38, 86, 87, 106, 1000, 1001, 1002, and 1004 San Francisco CA Schools of the Sacred Heart: Stuart Hall Renovation and Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA

UCB Hearst Greek Theatre Berkeley, CA UCB Units 1, 2, and 3 Residence Halls Berkeley, CA UC Press Building Berkeley, CA Our Lady of the Oaks Chapel Applegate, CA Emeryville Warehouse Lofts Emeryville, CA 1330 Broadway Oakland, CA I. Magnin Building Oakland, CA Pacific Cannery Lofts Oakland, CA Carquinez Senior Apartments Richmond, CA IDeAs Z-Squared Design Facility San Jose, CA AT&T Building at Bishop Ranch San Ramon, CA

Alameda Point Building 8 Alameda, CA

Bay Area Discovery Museum Sausalito, CA

Alameda Point Building 9 Alameda, CA

Mare Island Buildings 149 and 151 Vallejo, CA 20

680 FOLSOM STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Transformation of steel-moment-framed 1963 building from “Class C” to “Class A” office space. • Isolation system: a central concrete core pivots atop a single friction-pendulum slider bearing in the basement. • The core engages all floors of the existing steel moment frame, compels all floors to lean uniformly, spreads inelastic action evenly throughout the entire steel frame, and makes single-story collapse impossible. • The system marshals and spreads the strength of the existing frame uniformly throughout the height of the building; the frame acts as a spring that returns the building to plumb after an earthquake. • The single core pivoting on a single bearing solution resulted from an intensive value engineering effort that saved $4 million on a $110 million project.

LEED Platinum certified 2015 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2014 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project Award 2014 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence Architect: SOM Developer: TMG Partners Contractor: Plant Construction Company Size: 566,000 gsf Construction cost: $130 million Completed: 2014 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

HEARST GREEK THEATRE BERKELEY, CA

• Restoration and seismic retrofit that brought structure’s seismic rating from “Poor” to “Good.” • Tipping strengthened and stiffened the critical areas dominating the structure’s movement and designed the retrofit in harmony with its natural dynamic modes. • New strongback columns were hidden in the colonnade’s existing cavities and founded on large concrete footings anchored by 40-foot drilled piers. Reinforcement was installed in the existing void in each column, which was then filled with concrete. • Old copper roofing removed, the center protrusion chipped away and replaced with a reinforced concrete yoke tying new reinforcement together; glass-fiber reinforcing polymer added to the back of the entire colonnade; foundation stabilized under each column with large concrete underpinning piers, jacked to transfer existing loads to the piers.

2014 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Merit, Historic Preservation 2013 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Renovation/Retrofit 2013 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Historic Preservation 2013 California Preservation Foundation Awards, Preservation Technology and Craftsmanship Architects: Cody Anderson Wasney; Page and Turnbull (conceptual study) Developer: UC Berkeley Capital Projects Construction Cost: $5.6 million Gross Area: 67,000 sf Completed: 2012 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 RESIDENCE HALLS BERKELEY, CA

• Units 1, 2, and 3 comprise a total of 12 high-rise buildings in groups of 4 surrounding a large courtyard and a central commons building that houses the dining center, main office, recreation lounge, and an Academic Services Center. • The project entailed improving the buildings’ seismic safety rating from “Poor” to “Good” for the population of students who spend the most time in University-owned buildings. • Tipping employed state-of-the-art seismic analyses—vetted by peer and professorial review—to identify vulnerabilities of the existing buildings, then designed pointed retrofit measures to mitigate collapse and life-safety risk. • Accommodated the aggressive design and construction schedule that manifested the University’s urgent concerns about the safety of the student residents. This meant undertaking the design concurrently with review, approval and construction.

Architect: Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architecture Owner: UC Berkeley Capital Projects Size: 516,000 sf Construction cost: $10 million Completed: 2013 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

CARQUINEZ SENIOR APARTMENTS RICHMOND, CA

• Five-story reinforced-concrete James Plachek landmark. • Ground floor of mostly glass street-front walls, with castin-place concrete (with punched openings) exterior walls above; and on the other two sides, a classic weak-story configuration with a large torsional irregularity. • Project challenges were to strengthen structure without displacing tenants of 36 apartments and an Alzheimer’s day-care center, and to provide life-safety seismic performance for $1 million. • Conducted nonlinear response history analysis to evaluate existing building and calibrate the new walls. • Developed seismic bracing scheme that provided strength and toughness at the ground floor while limiting the seismic forces transmitted to the upper floors. • Delivered shelter-in-place capacity on budget, at a cost17 to 25 percent less than other engineering firms’ schemes.

SEAONC 2012 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award NCSEA 2011 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award Architect: Weir Andrewson Owner: BRIDGE Housing Inc. Contractor: Saarman Construction cost: $949,500 Gross Area: 35,747 sf Completed: 2010 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

PACIFIC PLACE SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Renovation and reprogramming of the historic Pacific Union Building was designed to accommodate the Old Navy flagship store and the Palomar Hotel. • Creating open retail space necessitated the removal of 86 percent of the existing concrete columns and all floor framing below the fifth floor. • Architect, engineer, contractor, and cost estimator collaborated in an iterative design process prior to the completion of lease negotiations in order for project costs to be reliably determined in pre-design. • A new steel building was built within the existing concrete framework, obviating traditional costly shoring prior to new construction and demolition. The existing grid layout was altered to accommodate the new programmatic needs, while the brittle and aging building was provided with a structural system capable of resisting large earthquakes.

2000 American Institute of Steel Construction Engineering Award of Excellence, National Winner 1999 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Best Structure Award 1998 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 1998 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, H.J. Brunnier Award for Design Excellence Architect: Gensler Owner: Pacific Resources Contractor: Plant Construction Co. Construction cost: $53 million Gross Area: 225,000 sf Completed: 2000

TIs 208 Utah Street San Francisco, CA 333 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 360 Post Street San Francisco, CA 826 Valencia San Francisco, CA 1275 Minnesota San Francisco, CA 1455 Market Street San Francisco, CA Autodesk | One Market Street San Francisco, CA Bank of America | One South Van Ness San Francisco, CA Barneys San Francisco, CA St. Joseph’s Hall San Francisco, CA The Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA CPMC Surgical Simulation Facility San Francisco, CA Diane Wilsey Center for Opera San Francisco, CA Grove Restaurant, Hayes Valley San Francisco, CA Grove Restaurant, Yerba Buena San Francisco, CA Hamm’s Building San Francisco, CA Old Navy | Pacific Place San Francisco, CA San Francisco Opera San Francisco, CA Pixar 45th Street Expansion

SHS Stuart Hall San Francisco, CA Splunk Inc. | 270 Brannan San Francisco, CA Square, Inc. San Francisco, CA Zynga Headquarters San Francisco, CA 1600 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 2150 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA Aduro | 740 Heinz Berkeley, CA Anthropologie Berkeley, CA Berkeley Repertory Theatre Artistic Center Berkeley, CA The Epicurean Garden Berkeley, CA UCB’s Cory Hall Berkeley, CA UCB’s Durant Hall Berkeley, CA UC Press Building Berkeley, CA Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA

Pixar 45th Street Expansion Emeryville, CA Pixar 53rd Street Expansion Emeryville, CA Urban Outfitters Emeryville, CA Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Oakland, CA Gensler Oakland, CA Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA Disney ImageMovers Digital Novato, CA IDeAs Design Facility San Jose, CA Bishop Ranch ATT Building San Ramon, CA Sausalito Theater Sausalito, CA Mare Island, Buildings 149 & 151 Vallejo, CA

The Atrium Building (U.S. Treasury Dept.) Emeryville, CA Guitar Center Emeryville, CA 26

DIANE B. WILSEY CENTER FOR OPERA SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• San Francisco Opera’s Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera is an exquisitely renovated 38,000 sf complex on the fourth floor of the San Francisco War Memorial, a Beaux Arts landmark. • The complex features the Taube Atrium Theater, a flexible space with 299 modular seats; an education studio and rehearsal venue; the 10,000 sf Norby Anderson Costume Studio; public archives for the opera; the Hume Family and the David Gockley Galleries; and opera administrative offices. • In addition to strengthening existing elements and providing structural framing, Tipping designed multiple systems to support rigging loads, custom structural mullions and lateral bracing for window walls, and a custom double-ring catwalk comprising a square outer walk with chamfered corners, bridging to an inner ring.

LEED Gold Certified 2017 AIASF Design Awards: Merit Award, Historic Preservation Commendation 2016 California Preservation Foundation Design Award Architect: Mark Cavagnero Associates Owner: SF War Memorial Building and San Francisco Opera Size: 38,000 sf Project cost: $21 million Completed: 2016

1275 MINNESOTA STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Located in SF’s Dogpatch district, 1275 Minnesota is one of three warehouse buildings converted to house the Minnesota Street Project, offering affordable, economically sustainable spaces dedicated to the arts; it currently accommodates ten commercial galleries, an arts education nonprofit, two flexible exhibition spaces, a media room, and a shared kitchen and packing-and-shipping room. • Structural work included seismically upgrading the 20,000 sf warehouse and adding a 16,000 sf second floor. • New shotcrete walls were added at the east and west walls; partial-height transverse concrete shear walls were added inside. Seismic improvements were also made to the existing roof structure. The new second floor was constructed of concrete fill over metal decking, supported on steel framing. New light-framed shear walls were added between the new second floor and the existing roof.

Architect: Jensen Architects Owner: Minnesota Street Project LLC General Contractor: Plant Construction Size: 36,000 sf Construction cost: $7.6 million Completed: 2016

SQUARE, INC. SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Tenant improvements at 1455 Market in two phases. • Phase I involved creating new offices, cubicles, team rooms with lots of glazing, free-standing partial-height partitions, and “cabanas” (small freestanding roofed clusters walled on two and three sides, with benches that provide temporary work or hangout spaces). • Phase II on two additional floors created more offices, free-standing partitions, and cabanas in new configurations; one large auditorium stair providing assembly space, connecting three floors, and adding two large floor openings; and a boutique square stair (whose supports are large invisible) between two floors. • Cabana design featured hidden cantilevered tube-steel frames for lateral support. • Removed several existing floor beams, and analyzed the full building lateral system to make sure that beam removal was structurally acceptable.

2014 Citation in Interior Architecture Award, AIA San Francisco Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Owner: Square Inc Size: 291,000 sf Construction cost: $55 million Completed: 2014

ZYNGA HQ SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Fast-track tenant improvement project. • Strengthened existing 6-story concrete structure. • Designed new custom elements (guardrails, stairs, bridges, office partitions, soffits, and canopies) and special exhibit structures and their anchorage. • Worked closely and regularly with design team, owner’s representative, and contractor to provide cost-efficient, innovative design solutions that met the client’s goals. • Coordinated closely with MEP disciplines to accommodate infrastructure for a varied program (over new 700 slab cores, production kitchen and cafe, new server room with extensive IT infrastructure, custom bathroom fixtures, new plumbing routes and new basement ejector pits, auditorium seating, exercise areas, food service bars, and custom feature lighting supports).

Architect: Nichols Booth Developer: TMG Partners Size: 270,000 gsf Construction cost: proprietary Completed: 2011 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

PIXAR 45TH STREET EXPANSION EMERYVILLE, CA

• Conversion of an old, expansive industrial space into a modern extension of Pixar’s Emeryville campus. • Freestanding cold-formed steel office pods were designed to break up the cavernous 35 ft. high space. • Designed extensive seismic improvements, and structural improvements were made to the building shell. • Extensive corrosion of metal roof deck and underlying steel roof purlins; new rooftop mechanical units; and a new sound diaphragm for wind and seismic loads all required the removal of the entire roof structure, to be replaced with new cold-formed steel roof purlins and metal decking. • New steel-braced frames added to increase the lateral strength of the structure; unreinforced masonry elements were braced. • An old rail spur running through the space was filled in to achieve a consistent ground floor elevation.

Architect: Gensler Owner: Pixar Animation Studios Size: 20,000 gsf Construction cost: $7 million Completed: 2006

Sectors CIVIC/PUBLIC

Berkeley Libraries, South and West Branches Berkeley, CA Cupertino Civic Center Cupertino, CA El Cerrito Recycling and Resource Center El Cerrito, CA Fremont Civic Center Fremont, CA Golden Gate Bridge Visitor’s Pavilion San Francisco, CA Moscone Convention Center Expansion San Francisco, CA Orinda City Hall Orinda, CA SF Public Utilities HQ San Francisco, CA COMMERCIAL

680 Folsom Street seismic retrofit San Francisco, CA 2150 Shattuck Avenue seismic retrofit Berkeley, CA David Brower Center Berkeley, CA Packard Foundation HQ Los Altos, CA Pixar Animation Studios conversion, 53rd and 45th Streets Emeryville, CA Square, Inc. San Francisco, CA Zynga, Inc. San Francisco, CA SCHOOL (K-12)

Crystal Springs Uplands Middle School Belmont, CA Children’s Day School | 601 Dolores San Francisco, CA De la Salle STREAM Center Concord, CA Nueva Upper School, Bay Meadows San Mateo, CA Junipero Serra High School, Center for Arts and Sciences and Aquatics Center San Mateo, CA Sacred Heart’s Michael Homer Center Atherton, CA HIGHER EDUCATION

SJSU Student Wellness Center San Jose, CA UCB Stiles Residence Hall Berkeley, CA UCB Campbell Hall Astrophysics Building Berkeley, CA UCB Haas Connie and Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, CA UCSB Ocean Sciences Education Building Santa Barbara, CA UCM Student Activities and Athletics Center Merced, CA

Moscone Center Expansion

MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING/LABORATORIES

740 Heinz Avenue Berkeley, CA 1375 Sutter Street MOB renovation San Francisco, CA 2850 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA CPMC Surgical Simulation Facility tenant improvements San Francisco, CA Kaiser Permanente Victorville MOB Victorville, CA Kaiser Permanente MOBs Kailua-Kona, HI CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL

Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA CuriOdyssey Children’s Museum San Mateo, CA Mastercard Pavilion at Weill Commons Rohnert Park, CA SF Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA SF Opera | Veteran’s Memorial Bldg San Francisco, CA Terrace Café at the California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA MULTIUNIT HOUSING

1180 Fourth Street San Francisco, CA 1700 Webster Street Oakland, CA 2001 Market Street San Francisco, CA 2675 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA Broadway | Sansome Apartments San Francisco, CA Rene Cazenave Apartments San Francisco, CA Shattuck Terrace Green Apartments Berkeley, CA

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MOSCONE CONVENTION CENTER SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• A three-phase expansion involving a limited portion of Moscone North and Moscone South, with approximately half of the work being done underground in order to better connect the two buildings and increase usable space. • Phase 1: Reconfigured truck routes, ramps, and entry points into the underground exhibit facilities while allowing for the continued operation of the convention center. • Phase 2: Reconfigured and expanded underground exhibit space by roughly 305,000 sf. Additionally, constructed new foundations for Phase 3 work. • Phase 3: Connecting the North and South facilities by creating a 240-foot, enclosed multispan concrete box-girder bridge at grade to maintain full-time elevated public access across Howard Street from Yerba Buena Gardens to the cultural facilities. Includes the creation of additional exhibit space below.

Architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects Owner: City of San Francisco / SF Tourism Improvement District Size: 800,000 gsf Construction cost: $350 million Completion: Slated for 2018

2129 SHATTUCK MIXED-USE HOTEL BERKELEY, CA

• This urban infill project is located two blocks from a major BART station and a block west of UC Berkeley. • The 16-story world-class concrete building will accommodate a 336-room hotel, with a 5,460 sf lobby restaurant/bar and a 10,950 sf conference facility, a fitness center, and a roof-deck swimming pool; 14,415 sf of ground-floor retail space housing a bank, a restaurant, and a café; and parking for 97 vehicles on the second floor. • Berkeley’s first high-rise hotel, the project promises to positively transform the city’s downtown by strengthening its draw as a visitor destination; creating an active and dynamic center; increasing continuous and active storefronts; and providing a new patron base for nearby shops and businesses.

LEED Gold target Architect: JRDV Architects Owner: Center Street Partners, LLC Size: 252,000 gsf Construction cost: $135 million In design

270 BRANNAN STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• This Rincon Hill infill project is a 65-foot-tall office building with seven floors of rentable space, totaling 189,000 sf, surrounding a central atrium; a large roof deck; and a basement parking garage accommodating 12 parking stalls and 52 bikes. • Straddling a historic shoreline reclaimed in the 19th century, the project presented challenging goals for the design team, including mitigating soils liquefaction and lateral spreading hazards; developing a cost-effective foundation support solution; and assuring satisfactory seismic performance. • Deep-soil mixing (DSM) combined with micropiles emerged as the most cost-effective solution to address the ground conditions. DSM panels mitigate liquefaction and act as foundation support system, while micropiles provide resistance to seismic overturning. This solution also allowed the use of efficient conventional spread footings.

LEED Platinum certified Architect: Pfau Long Architects Owner: SKS Investments and Mitsui Fudosan America Size: 213,000 gsf Construction cost: $52 million Completed: 2016

740 HEINZ AVENUE BERKELEY, CA

• Commercial urban infill project consists of a LEED Gold state-of-the-art life-sciences laboratory building. • Four-story building is framed with structural steel and clad with a combination of precast concrete panels and existing brick masonry walls. • Challenged by the combination of high seismic risk and soft liquefiable soils underlying the site, we designed an array of innovative steel frames supported on deep foundations. • Incorporating buckling restrained brace (BRB) elements, the lateral system is highly efficient, damage resistant, and cost-efficient. The braced-mast concept represents a significant improvement over a typical BRB frame configuration. By making more effective use of the BRB elements, the mast frame can overcome the tendency for earthquake damage concentrate at a story and improve seismic redundancy while reducing construction cost.

2016 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project Award 2016 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence Architect: DGA Owner: Wareham Development Size: 110,000 sf Construction cost: $22 million Completed: 2015

SF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION HQ SAN FRANCISCO, CA

• Performance mandate of immediate occupancy after a design basis earthquake (DBE). • Two previous lateral systems rejected owing to cost. • Halfway through construction documents, we were asked to devise a cost-efficient third system. • Designed using Tipping’s vertically post-tensioned selfcentering concrete cores. • Lowered floor-to-ceiling heights, allowing the addition of a thirteenth story. • Optimized link-beam design reduced steel reinforcement by 50 percent and trimmed the construction schedule • Saved the project $32.7 million in direct, indirect, and downstream costs. • Decreased the project’s carbon footprint by 7.4 million pounds of CO2 emissions.

LEED Platinum certified 2013 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project Award, $100 millionplus category 2013 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, Sustainable Category 2013 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering Merit Award, Sustainable Category Architect: KMD/Stevens Owner/Developer: City of San Francisco/DPW Size: 277,500 sf Construction cost: $145.5 million Completed: June 2012 EXECUTED AS TIPPING MAR

TIPPING IS A RECOGNIZED LEADER in sustainable design,

sought after by architects and building owners who share the commitment to reduce the short- and long-term impact of building construction on the environment.

• 38 Excellence in Engineering Awards

A VIEW TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY GUIDES OUR ANALYSIS OF EVERY DESIGN PROBLEM AND IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERY SOLUTION. We design to reduce the

• 20 LEED Platinum projects

carbon footprint of every structure by: • coupling its thermal properties with passive solar design; • detailing for longevity and adaptability; • protecting the building by designing for enhanced seismic performance; • specifying low-cement concrete and high-recycled-content steel; and • avoiding construction waste and reducing costs.

• 1 Living Building • 15 LEED Gold projects • 6 projects with LEED innovation points from Tipping innovations • 7 net-zero-energy buildings • 9 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects

RESEARCH Over the past thirteen years, Tipping has made concerted efforts to research and analyze alternative, resource-efficient materials just entering the marketplace: • structural insulated panels (SIPs) • straw bale, rammed earth, bamboo • resource-efficient wood framing, timber frame • low-cement concrete

To our projects’ great successes, we have collaborated with suppliers and contractors to develop and implement new approaches. On five projects thus far, Tipping innovations (our resilient lateral systems and green concrete mixes) have garnered LEED innovation credits. SUSTAINABILITY-ORIENTED DESIGN STRATEGIES

The following are illustrative of how we have collaborated with architects and owners to meet—and exceed—ambitious green goals.

The Chartwell School

The Chartwell School (2007) • Under a Kresge Foundation grant, we developed—alongside the concrete supplier—a low-cement mix comprising 30 percent cement and 70 percent slag. • This approach achieved a net CO2 emissions reduction of 45 percent without any added cost, a significant improvement over the 18 percent net reduction typically achieved

with fly-ash mixes, which come with a 10 to 15 percent cost premium and constructability problems. • We implemented resource-efficient framing on the project, which resulted in a 30 percent reduction in total lumber use. That cost saving then allowed the specification of FSC lumber for the project. The David Brower Center (2009) • Our concrete mixes, designed through an iterative process with the concrete supplier, saved the project 1 million pounds of CO2 emissions, with typical Portland cement replacements of 50 to 70 percent. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission HQ (2012) Tipping’s sustainable design solutions: • added a thirteenth story to the project (thereby increasing density) owing to the reduced floor-to-ceiling heights that resulted from our lateral system design; • reduced steel reinforcement—and materials emissions—by 50 percent owing to our optimized link-beam design; • decreased the project’s carbon footprint by 7.4 million pounds of CO2 emissions owing to our specially designed green-concrete mixes; • increased the building’s resilience—and, by extension, the longevity of the investment—by delivering immediate-occupancy performance while saving the project $5 million (or $18/sf) in direct and indirect structural costs, and $27.7 million in downstream and VE costs.

David Brower Center

SF Public Utilities Commission HQ

270 BRANNAN San Francisco, CA

LEED Platinum certified MEADOW FARM Santa Cruz, CA

LEED-NC Platinum certified 680 FOLSOM San Francisco, CA

LEED-NC Platinum certified SF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMM HQ

San Francisco, CA LEED-NC Platinum certified

Packard Foundation HQ

PACKARD FOUNDATION HQ

Los Altos, CA

38 HARRIET STREET | CCA DORMS

ORINDA CITY HALL Orinda, CA

NZE, LEED-NC Platinum certified

San Francisco, CA LEED-NC Platinum certified

LEED Gold certified

STATION CTR FAMILY HOUSING TOD

San Francisco, CA LEED-NC Gold certified

SBSR SUSTAINABILITY TREEHOUSE

Glen Jean, WV NZE, Living Building targeted THE OMEGA CENTER FOR

Union City, CA LEED for Homes Platinum certified

2001 MARKET | 38 DOLORES

UCSB OCEAN SCIENCES EDUCATION

SUSTAINABLE LIVING Rhinebeck, NY

WEST BRANCH LIBRARY Berkeley, CA

BUILDING Santa Barbara, CA

NZE, Living Building certified LEED Platinum certified

NZE, LEED Platinum certified

LEED Gold certified

BISHOP O’DOWD H.S.

H2HOTEL Healdsburg, CA

EL CERRITO RECYCLING AND ENVI-

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CENTER

LEED NC Gold certified

RONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER

Oakland, CA LEED Platinum certified

PRESENTATION CTR Los Gatos, CA

El Cerrito, CA NZE, LEED-NC Platinum certified

UCM STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND ATH-

THE DAVID BROWER CENTER

LETICS CENTER Merced, CA

Berkeley, CA LEED Platinum certified

LEED Platinum certified

MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL,

LEED Platinum certified

STEP 2 Corte Madera, CA

NZE, LEED Platinum certified MICHAEL J. HOMER SCIENCE AND STUDENT LIFE CENTER

Atherton, CA LEED Platinum certified LANCASTER LOFTS Oakland, CA

NZE, LEED Platinum certified CHARTWELL SCHOOL Seaside, CA

LEED Platinum certified

NUEVA HIGH SCHOOL San Mateo, CA CURIODYSSEY MUSEUM San Mateo, CA

LEED Platinum targeted

LEED Gold certified MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, STEP 1

Corte Madera, CA LEED Gold certified (2129) SHATTUCK HOTEL Berkeley, CA

LEED Gold targeted 1375 SUTTER MOB | SUTTER HEALTH San Francisco, CA

DIANE WILSEY CENTER FOR OPERA

LEED Gold targeted

San Francisco, CA LEED Gold certified

1700 WEBSTER Oakland, CA

UCB CAMPBELL HALL Berkeley, CA

LEED Gold certified SOUTH BRANCH LIBRARY Berkeley, CA

LEED Gold targeted IDEAS Z-SQUARED DESIGN FACILITY

San Jose, CA NZE, NZC, LEED Gold certified

LEED Gold certified 40

740 HEINZ AVENUE Berkeley, CA

CARQUINEZ SR APTS Richmond, CA

2016 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project 2016 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering

2012 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Merit, Sustainability Category 2011 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Retrofit/Alteration Category

680 FOLSOM STREET San Francisco, CA

2015 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2014 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project 2014 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 525 GOLDEN GATE, SFPUC HQ

San Francisco, CA 2013 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project 2013 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2013 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Merit, Sustainability Category 2013 PTI Awards, Award of Excellence UCB HEARST GREEK THEATRE

Berkeley, CA 2013 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering 2013 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2013 California Preservation Foundation Awards, Preservation Technology and Craftsmanship JUNIPERO SERRA’S ARTS & SCIENCES & AQUATIC FACILITY San Mateo, CA

2012 ENR Best Projects, Best in Category, K–12 Education Project

PACKARD FOUNDATION HQ

Los Altos, CA 2012 ENR Best Projects, Best of the Best, Sustainable Design

THE DAVID BROWER CENTER

STRAW-BALE HOUSING

Heilongjiang Province, N.E. China 2006 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Special Use Structures 2006 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Certificate of Merit, Special Recognition

Berkeley, CA 2010 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2010 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence

LOU HARRISON RESIDENCE

CORRUGATED SHEET-STEEL SHEAR WALL RESEARCH

2001 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project 2001 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2001 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence

2009 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence in Study/Research/Guidelines Category 2850 TELEGRAPH AVE Berkeley, CA

2009 ATC/SEI Top Seismic Project of the Decade, Concrete Structure Category 2008 PTI Awards, Award of Merit: Repair, Rehabilitation, and Strengthening 2006 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Best Use of Conventional Technologies in a Building Retrofit 2006 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Certificate of Merit, Best Use of Conventional Technologies in a Building Retrofit

ORINDA CITY HALL Orinda, CA

2007 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Small Project Excellence 2006 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering, Outstanding Project 2006 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence, Best Use of New Technology in New Construction

Joshua Tree, CA 2002 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence I. MAGNIN BUILDING Oakland, CA

STANFORD ESCONDIDO VILLAGE

Palo Alto, CA 2000 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 2000 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence PACIFIC PLACE San Francisco, CA

2000 American Institute of Steel Construction, Engineering Award of Excellence 1999 NCSEA Excellence in Engineering, Best Structure 1998 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 1998 SEAONC Excellence in Engineering, H.J. Brunnier Award for Excellence in Design THE LANDMARK AT ONE MARKET STREET San Francisco, CA

1999 SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence 1999 SEAONC Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award of Excellence

A Alameda Point Redevelopers Ankrom Moisan Architects Anshen and Allen | Stantec Architecture B Bank of America BAR Architects Barker Pacific Group Barneys NY Bay Area Discovery Museum Bayer Pharmaceutical Division Beacon Group Ventures Bentley School Berger Detmer Ennis Architecture Bishop Ranch BNIM Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Bora Architects Boulder Associates Architects Brand and Allen Architects BRIDGE Housing C Cahill Contractors Charles Pankow Builders Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day School Cody Anderson Wasney Architects The Commonwealth Club Cornerstone Properties D Dan Smith and Associates David Baker and Partners DeReus Architects Discovery Land Company Disney IMD DGA Architects DLR Group Dominican University E 826 Valencia EHDD Architecture Eden Housing Equity Community Builders F Facebook Fernau and Hartman Architects Field Paoli G Gerding Edlen Gensler Google

H Hacker Architects Harley Ellis Devereaux HKIT Architects Holliday Development Huntsman Architectural Group J Jamestown Properties Jensen Architects Jones Lang LaSalle K Kava Massih Architects Kieran Timberlake Architects KMD Architects KTGY Group, Inc. L Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects Lennar Mare Island Lick-Wilmerding High School M Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects MBH Architects McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Mercy Housing California MidPen Housing Minnesota Project LLC MithĹŤn Solomon N National Park Service Nibbi Brothers Nichols Booth Architects Noll and Tam Architects O Obscura Digital Omega Center for Sustainable Living P Page and Turnbull Panoramic Interests Perkins and Will | SMWM Perkins Eastman Pfau Long Architecture Pixar Plant Construction Company Pollack Architecture The Prado Group The Presidio Trust Project Frog Pulte Homes Pyatok Architects

R Ratcliff Architects Ro Rockett Design S Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton Saida and Sullivan Architects San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco Department of Public Works San Francisco Opera | War Memorial San Joaquin Group, LLC San Jose State University Sares Regis Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco Seagate Properties, Inc. Siegel and Strain Architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP SKS Solomon Cordwell Buenz Square, Inc. SRM Associates Stanford University Stockbridge Capital Partners STUDIOS Architecture Sunset Development Company Swinerton Builders T TMG Partners Toll Brothers U University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Merced University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz V Sim Van der Ryn W Wareham Development Webcor Builders West Bay Builders William McDonough and Partners Wilson Meany Sullivan Partners WRNS Studio Z ZETA Design Build ZGF Architects Zynga

FOUNDED 1983 S TA F F O F 3 2 3 8 E XC E L L E N C E I N E N G I N E E R I N G AWA R D S 2 LIVING BUILDINGS, 1 CERTIFIED 2 0 L E E D P L AT I N U M , 1 5 L E E D G O L D B U I L D I N G S 7 N E T-Z E R O - E N E R GY B U I L D I N G S 9 AIA/COTE TOP TEN GREEN PROJECTS