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Multifamily · 2024
Sugar Hill on Stone
A four-story, 66-unit affordable apartment building in Tucson, framed in wood over a post-tensioned slab on grade.
- Type
- Multifamily
- Year
- 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
- My role
- Project engineer
- Structural system
- Wood bearing walls and trusses, wood shear walls, partial steel framing at Level 2
- Size
- 4 stories · 77,000 SF · 66 units
- Materials
- Wood, Steel, Concrete
- Status
- Completed
Overview
An affordable housing development on Stone Avenue in Tucson for Gorman & Company and the City of Tucson, designed with Poster Mirto McDonald. The building holds 66 apartments with amenity and leasing space on the ground floor, and steps down to a partial fourth floor.
Structure
- Gravity: wood stud bearing walls with wood floor and roof trusses, with steel beams and columns where Level 2 needed longer spans
- Lateral: wood structural panel shear walls
- Foundations: spread footings and a post-tensioned slab on grade
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