As of May 2019, Structural Grace joined CONSOR Engineers, a collection of entrepreneur-led businesses that share the same values that inspired the inception of Structural Grace, Inc. in 1999. Over the last twenty years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing exceptional client service and innovative solutions. We continue our culture of excellence, quality, passion, and dedication to client and community, but now with the backing and expanded expertise of CONSOR. CONSOR has committed to keeping the small‐company and local feel of Structural Grace, encouraging us to stay true to our entrepreneurial roots and limit the bureaucracy that hinders nimble autonomy. We have become 800 strong with the resources of a national footprint.
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Structural Grace, Inc. provided construction survey services for the new I-10/SR303 TI in the West Valley. The project includes a four level traffic interchange connecting I-10 Eastbound and I-10 Westbound and SR 303L NB and SR 303L SB, as well as 10 cast-in-place post-tensioned box girder concrete bridges and one precast, pre-stressed Type V AASHTO girder concrete bridge, along with numerous retaining walls, sound walls, and box culverts.
Structural Grace, Inc. is providing construction survey services for the Tempe Town Lake Downstream Dam. This dam is the world’s largest hydraulically-operated steel gate dam. The steel gate system will consists of eight fabricated steel gates mounted on a new concrete foundation and new reinforced concrete spillway slab approximately 100 feet downstream from the existing rubber bladders.
Structural Grace, Inc. is providing construction survey services for the Tempe Town Lake Downstream Dam. This dam is the world’s largest hydraulically-operated steel gate dam. The steel gate system will consists of eight fabricated steel gates mounted on a new concrete foundation and new reinforced concrete spillway slab approximately 100 feet downstream from the existing rubber bladders. Each gate will be approximately 107 feet long and 17 feet high, weighing approximately 230,000 pounds. The new piers are about 9 feet wide on the upstream side and 4 feet wide on the downstream side.
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The 950-foot steel structure across the dry Salt River bed.
Structural Grace, Inc. performed construction staking on the proposed traffic interchange reconstruction project consisting of removing the existing traffic interchange, bridge and ramps and constructing the new Carefree Highway roadways, a new precast girder bridge, new ramps and auxiliary lanes to Interstate 17.
Structural Grace, Inc. performed construction staking on the proposed traffic interchange reconstruction project consisting of removing the existing traffic interchange, bridge and ramps and constructing the new Carefree Highway roadways, a new precast girder bridge, new ramps and auxiliary lanes to Interstate 17. This work included grading, PCCP and AC roadway paving, RCB extension, drainage appurtenances guardrail, signing, striping, signals, lighting and traffic control.
The Historic Old US 80 Bridge over the Gila River in Maricopa County, a 9-span steel truss structure originally constructed in 1927 as part of the “Coast-to-Coast” highway, is the longest structure of its type remaining in Arizona today.
The Historic Old US 80 Bridge over the Gila River in Maricopa County, a 9-span steel truss structure originally constructed in 1927 as part of the “Coast-to-Coast” highway, is the longest structure of its type remaining in Arizona today. Structural Grace, Inc. prepared a load rating per the AASHTO LRFR (Load and Resistance Factor Rating) method.
The load rating addressed truss members damaged by vehicle impacts, corroded anchorages, and bearings locked in place by corrosion. It also included recommendations to address these bridge deficiencies.
Structural Grace, Inc. provided construction surveying for the US60 to Loop 202 in Mesa, Arizona. This stretch of roadway included eight bridges, numerous walls, PCCP paving, drainage, ramps and arterials.
Structural Grace, Inc. provided construction surveying for the US60 to Loop 202 in Mesa, Arizona. This stretch of roadway included eight bridges, numerous walls, PCCP paving, drainage, ramps and arterials. Completed on time with zero error and 100% safety for tight tolerance and important detail motifs.
Structural Grace Inc. performed construction survey and layout for the Loop 202/I-10 three tier traffic interchange. The project encompassed two miles of reconstruction including a three tier stack, a TI at Chandler Boulevard, new alignment of SR202, box culverts, a pump station and moving 2 million cubic yards of earth!