New Mercedes Benz Showroom

IMEG provided structural engineering services for a new 83,000-sf Mercedes Benz showroom in Chicago. The building includes three floors and an 18,000-sf covered parking garage on the fourth floor. The facility includes showrooms, offices, and a break room for employees. Early in design, IMEG presented many different steel and concrete structural systems, complete with member

Home Furnishings Retailer

IMEG has provided structural engineering design services for several U.S. IKEA stores, which sells its ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances, and home accessories. Founded 71 years ago in Sweden, the privately owned IKEA is the world’s largest home-furnishings retailer. Outlets for which IMEG has provided design services to date include: MIAMI, FL: This $72.4 million, 1,050,000-sf project

New, Expanded, and Renovated Grocery Stores

IMEG held an Open-End Contract with Aldi from 1988 – 2010 to provide mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and structural engineering services for planning and design of new, expanded and renovated grocery stores around the United States. During that time IMEG completed designs for more than 900 grocery stores nationwide. A prototype design was developed

Automotive Tier Supplier

IMEG provided industrial architecture and engineering design for the new IAV GmbH North American Headquarters and Test Facility. As a “tier supplier,” the 40,000-sf, $21M research and development facility is devoted to basic or applied vehicle-related research, engineering, testing, and/or product development. (Tier suppliers range from multi-national, multi-industry conglomerates to one-shop, specialty enterprises and are

Kuwait Cancer Center

The Kuwait Ministry of Health commissioned the construction of a new 618-bed Cancer Hospital to complement an existing hospital campus. The Cancer Center provides Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Hematology Oncology, Surgical and Intensive Care Units. Additional facilities include a Physical Therapy Educational Facilities and an auditorium. The seven-story lobby is dynamic as it contains hovering

Reuse of Existing Historic Building

IMEG is providing full mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural and civil engineering services for the adaptive reuse of this building, including a full seismic evaluation and upgrade that provides the building with a new seismic force resisting frame.   The project includes the reuse of an existing historic building in downtown Los Angeles that has a six-story

New Trade Center

IMEG provided engineering design for the California Broadway Trade Center (formerly a May Company department store), a 1,100,000-sf mixed-use redevelopment of a building that originally opened in 1907.  Phase 1 of the renovation included the removal of approximately 57,000-sf of floor space to create light wells and a courtyard, and new mezzanine and rooftop levels

Maintenance Facility Expansion

IMEG provided professional design services for the Design-Build addition to the maintenance building and covered bus parking and access ways at the SunLine Transit Agency in Long Beach. The scope of work included an addition of approximately 2,200-sf to the existing maintenance building with upgrades to the various systems of the maintenance buildings, the construction of an eight-bay bus

Single-Span Replacement Bridge

IMEG provided bridge replacement plans on Turkey Hollow Road over Turkey Hollow Creek in the City of Rock Island. The existing bridge consisted of a three-span, precast concrete channel beam structure, and was replaced with a single-span W36 steel beam bridge with integral abutments and spill-thru slopes. The structure span length is 74’-0” centerline-to-centerline of

Pedestrian and Bike Path Bridge Replacement

IMEG provided schematic rendering and planning services for a new park, pedestrian bridge replacement, and connecting bike path to Sylvan Island. The city received an Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program (ITEP) grant to remove the existing truss bridge and replace it with a new structure, reusing the existing substructure units.  Engineers provided a field topographic survey,