Connery Addition - Bedford, NY

Start Date: Fall 2008
Construction Completed
Lead Structural Engineer: Moore Associates
Employer: Pustola & Associates



This was a residential addition to the client's home. They requested a totally vaulted ceiling that also had an opening at the peak for a cupola. This could not be achieved by conventional wood framing, so a steel moment frame structure was used because of the open nature of the structure.



Around the main central portion of the addition, moment frames that consisted of the main corner columns welded to the incoming valleys of the rooftop were designed to withstand the torsion generated from region's lateral loads. These were then framed around by conventional wood framing and hidden within the walls of the addition.

This was a project I did under the employment of Pustola and Associates and by hire from Moore Associates.

Penthouse Addition - Manhattan, NY

Start Date: May 2008
Architect: D+Form Architecture
Lead Structural Engineer: Moore Associates
Employer: Pustola & Associates

This is a steel residential addition to the top of an existing building that has a combination brick and mortar lateral shell and a cast-iron gravity structure.

The major obstacle with the design of this structure was distributing the new lateral and gravity loads of the addition in a way as to not put the cast-iron structure in tension. Therefore, I designed a drag strut system that supports the column loads from the addition and converts all the lateral and gravity loads to manageable axial loads that put the cast-iron columns in pure compression.





This was a project I did under the employment of Pustola and Associates and by hire from Moore Associates.