Pruitt Eberly Stone, Inc. (PES) worked with Pieper O’Brien Herr Architects to provide structural design services for the Free Chapel church in Gainesville, GA. The project design was based on two components:

Sanctuary Expansion: Design services in BIM (Revit) format for a 90,000 sq. ft., three-story church addition.

Design Features:

• Concrete and steel frame
• Steel bar joists roof framing covered with metal roof deck
• WWR reinforced slab-on-grade
• Concrete framed elevated floors
• Light gauge metal stud framed walls
• Shallow foundation system

TV and Administration Building: Design services in BIM (Revit) format for a 40,000 square foot, three-story TV Studio and Administration Building

Design Features:

• Steel frame
• Pre-engineered metal roof stud trusses covered with metal deck roof sheathing
• Reinforced slab-on-grade 
• Composite steel elevated floors with concrete slab
• Light gauge metal stud framed walls
• Shallow foundation system