The Buckingham
The continuing care retirement community brings additional services and housing to the expanding senior population in Houston.
Lead Contact
Project Details
Project Partners
D2 Architecture
Owner
Seniority, Inc.
Location
Houston, Texas
Completion Date
Area
333,000 ft²
Number of Stories
12
The Buckingham in Houston.
Courtesy D2 Architecture
Overview
The Buckingham - a continuing care retirement community - brings additional services and housing to the expanding senior population in Houston. The development includes a 12-story independent living tower, a 70,000-square-foot skilled nursing building above a 45,000-square-foot underground parking garage and a 22,000-square-foot memory care facility.
We provided structural design services to D2 Architecture for the facility, which opened in 2018.
Highlights
- The project included 330,000 square feet of new construction and 106,000 square feet of existing building renovation.
- The residential tower is supported by concrete columns, concrete post tensioned floors and concrete shear walls.
- Both the skilled nursing building and memory care facility contain metal composite decks supported by light gage load bearing walls.
- The skilled nursing building sits on a concrete post tensioned floor supported by concrete columns on shallow isolated spread footings.
- The multiple structural systems added complexity to the project requiring our team to provide more details and collaborate closely with the architect and design team.