Epstein
provided full-service architectural design services,
project and construction management for a 38,000 square
foot office/laboratory addition to the international
corporate offices of Alberto Culver, Inc. in Melrose
Park, Illinois. The existing roof framing was raised
approximately 8 feet to allow for adding a new floor
level inside the facility. The roof was raised by cutting
existing columns, raising roof framing with hydraulic
jacks, splicing new column extensions to the columns,
modifying the roof diaphragm, adding new lateral stability
systems and modifying the existing exterior masonry
cladding.
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