AC Hotel by Marriott

AC Hotel by Marriott

Arizona’s second AC Hotel by Marriott ℠ is an eight-story, 137-room, 176,480-square-foot facility in downtown Tucson. The hotel includes five stories of post-tensioned parking garage with three stories of load-bearing cold-formed walls.  The most interesting aspect of this project that inspired Schneider during the design process was determining the correct lateral stiffness with a drastic change in the lateral system at the podium level. Schneider’s design innovations included angle supports with grouted infill release pockets with dowels as an alternative to long-term shored closure pours around shear walls to allow shortening. Schneider designed new details to accelerate construction by allowing early removal of shoring around stairway shear walls and fabricated walls.

Rendering courtesy of Swaim & Associates

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Project Details

Location:
Tucson, Arizona
Size:
176,480 sq. ft. hotel
SSE Services:
Structural Design, Special Structural Inspection
Completion Date:
February 2016
Project Team:
Five North Fifth Developer
Ron Schneider, P.E., S.E., Schneider Structural Engineers Project Manager, Structural Engineer
Swaim Associates Architects, Ltd. Architect
FORS Architecture & Interiors Architecture and Interiors
Lloyd Construction Company, Inc. Contractor
McGetrick & Associates, Inc. Electrical Engineer
KC Mechanical Engineering, LLC Mechancial Engineer
Norris Design Landscape
Cypress Civil Development Civil Engineer