Total Renal Care Tower and Annex
Tacoma, Washington

The TRC Tower project was a redevelopment of the existing 120,000 square foot Schoenfeld Furniture building into an office facility. The building is a 10-story concrete frame building designed and built in the 1920s. The project included an adjacent 2-story timber framed annex. Work included designing a new lateral force resisting system utilizing steel braces and shotcrete shear walls in the tower to resist seismic and wind forces. The annex was upgraded by attaching it to the tower and adding shotcrete shear walls. The new lateral systems were located on the perimeter of the buildings to provide an open interior. The lateral system was designed to minimize foundation modifications. Also included in the design was removal of columns in the basements to improve parking access, and structural design was provided to allow installation of new elevators.

Project Category
Renovation/Seismic Retrofit

Architect
Thomas Cook Reed Reinvald

Year
1999