Beau Rivage Market Place, Wilmington, NC

Criser Troutman Tanner provided structural engineering and design for Beau Rivage Marketplace, a twenty acre, mixed use retail shopping center in the southern portion of New Hanover, located off of Carolina Beach Road. CTT provided structural engineering design for three (3) independently constructed, single-story buildings that were designed for the site for a total of approximately 130,000 sf of retail commercial shopping space. The Harris Teeter building was designed by others.

One building is a mixed use commercial shell totaling approximately 6,000 sf. The other two buildings consist of an adjacent in-line retail shell space adjacent to an anchor retail with approximately 7,800 sf and the other building consisting of approximately 5,000 sf. It was desired that separate construction documents be provided for each building for individual permitting and all buildings will be design as a "black box."

The building construction consists of steel frames and columns and some load-bearing masonry walls. Columns and walls are supported by shallow spread footings and wall footings. The roof system consists of a metal roof deck supported by steel roof joists and beams. There are towers and canopies incorporated into the buildings.

The exterior walls consist of non-load bearing metal curtainwall studs with a brick veneer. The ground floor slab is a concrete slab-on-grade.