Conférence hybride “Groton Hill Music Center – A Structure That is Truly Part of the Show”

De la part d’Ingénieurs en structure de Montréal :

“18h / Mercredi 20 novembre 2024
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This presentation will be held in English
Cette présentation aura lieu en anglais

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Résumé de la conférence

The Groton Hill Music Center is a new music education and performance facility located in the farmlands of eastern Massachusetts. Its owners, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1985, describe their new home as a “126,000-square feet love letter to sound,” with studio classrooms for students of all ages, an orchestral rehearsal space, a 300-seat recital hall for soloists and small ensembles, and a grand 1000-seat concert hall that opens to viewing from the surrounding outdoor fields in warm weather.

From the early design stages, the owner set a goal to achieve world-class natural and amplified acoustics in the building. Normally, engineers accomplish this by completely covering the structure to isolate it from the acoustic volume of the performance spaces. However, what made Groton Hill Music Center so unique was the architect’s unifying vision, expressed in early concept design sketches, to utilize exposed mass timber to integrate acoustics, structure, and aesthetic finishes with the building’s rural setting. Indeed, concertgoers who experience performances in the building, designed using a hybrid of steel, concrete, and timber, are literally “listening to the structure. »

The architect chose mass timber for many reasons, including: material warmth and ambience; resonance with regional historic building methods; a desire to use renewable and sustainable products; and its ability to provide structure, spatial definition, and finishes as one system. Through an integrated collaboration between the architect, structural engineers, acoustic consultants, timber fabricators, and builders, the abstract forms throughout the building were carefully engineered to achieve the project’s objectives.

Lance will provide an overview of the project, describe some of the innovative structural solutions that were incorporated into the design, and explain how the building structure truly is part of the show.

Conférencier

Lance Aleksiewicz | PE – Rhode Island
Project Manager
WSP USA Building Structures

Lance Aleksiewicz is an Assistant Vice President at WSP in the Structures with more than 22 years of professional experience in the design of building structures. He has extensive experience designing buildings utilizing all the major structural building codes and standards for steel, concrete, wood, and masonry design. He has a wide range of experience working with architects, consultants, and contractors on large-scale residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial projects. He has also performed structural analysis and code reviews for numerous large-scale structures throughout the northeast and southeast US regions.

Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut

Registered Professional Engineer – Rhode Island, USA

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