News, Research, and Scientific Discovery
Award Winning Parking Structure
CGA provided vibration consulting on the City of Santa Monica Parking Structure 6, which was recently recognized by the International Parking Institute as one of 2014’s best designs! The facility, honored as the Best Design of a Parking Facility with Fewer than 800 spaces, is located in the middle of downtown Santa Monica and “its […]...
University of Cambridge MSM Nominated for BCI Award
One of CGA’s projects, the recently completed University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy facility has been nominated for a British Construction Industry Award. The building was nominated as the Project of the Year in the million to £50 million category. CGA provided acoustics and vibration consulting on the design of this facility, […]...
CGA and LEED
The role of acoustics is becoming increasingly important in sustainable design projects seeking LEED certification. As an acoustical consultant, Colin Gordon Associates is now bringing “more to the table” with regard to this process. While in the past the acoustical design could only be used to indirectly help achieve LEED credits in areas such as […]...
Lab of the Year
One of the nation’s newest energy research facilities has been named R&D Magazine’s 2014 Laboratory of the Year. CGA was acoustical consultant to SmithGroupJJR for the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO. This is the second project by this team at NREL. http://www.bdcnetwork.com/check-out-stunning-research-facility-just-named-2014-lab-year-slideshow?eid=216303434&bid=842881...
Returning to CGA
Nat Wongprasert, PhD, is returning to CGA after a several-year hiatus to get a successful business off the ground. He and a friend opened a Thai restaurant in San Francisco in 2006, and not only did it survive (a rarity in the City) but it thrived! He missed engineering, and has returned to us as […]...
CGA’S LEED Medal Count
Many CGA projects achieve LEED Certification: As of June 2024, 38 facility design projects using Colin Gordon Associates had achieved LEED Certification, including 6 projects awarded the coveted LEED Platinum status, and 20 LEED Gold. While LEED Certification is based on a variety of factors, requiring efforts by the entire team, there are a growing […]...
Concrete Damping
At long last, Hal Amick has completed the second of his two journal papers on the damping properties of concrete which document his research at Berkeley. The first was published in the May 2006 issue of Materials Journal of the American Concrete Institute and dealt with the damping properties of plain concrete. The second paper […]...
Long-Span Floors
CGA has a long history with long-span floors, primarily for fabs and flat-panel facilities, and mostly in Asia. These have unique dynamic features, and behave differently under localized excitation from loading such as footfall. As interest grows in non-semiconductor applications of these structures, where footfall takes on a greater importance (since heavy manufacturing equipment may […]...