Sheila is a Project Manager in the structural design engineering department. She has experience with various project types including commercial, residential, mix-use buildings, and industrial buildings or structural systems.
Education
Ph.D. - Civil Engineering - The University of Southern California
M.S. - Architecture - The University of Texas at Arlington
M.S. - Civil Engineering - The University of Buffalo
B. S. - Civil Engineering - National Taiwan University
Licensure
Licensed Professional Engineer in California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
Representative Experience
Personal representative experience may cover multiple employement engagements
Atelier Apartments
Dallas, Texas
42-story residential tower 920,000SF building
Includes six levels of parking deck with liner residential
Amenity deck at level 10 with pool and landscaped plaza
Two-level below grade parking for retail and restaurants
Bonded post-tensioned stage stressed transfer girders below amenity deck to support 30 levels of construction above.
Structural systems used were cast-in-place concrete, post tensioned beams, post tensioned two-way slabs, with lateral systems being concrete shear walls
Foundation systems were cast-in-place concrete grade beams, concrete basement walls and drilled piers/caissons.
(9) building complex consisting of (4) one-story retail buildings, (2) two-story retail buildings, (1) multi-level music amphitheater, (1) two story restaurant plus amphitheater concession building (3 levels total) and four-story office building built above six levels of parking and retail (10 levels total)
Office building is a ten-level structure with 100,000SF office over multi-level 660,000SF parking structure and two-story retail space
(1) two-level plus mezzanine, 96,000SF cinema above retail / restaurant space
(6) 1 and 2-story retail / restaurant buildings
Covered amphitheater with lawn seating built above a below grade two story restaurant space
Concrete cast-in-place structure for office, parking and retail below office tower
Composite steel structure for other retail and restaurant buildings
Partial basement level at parking deck
Structural systems used were cast-in-place concrete, post tensioned beam, wide module pan joist and flat slab with lateral systems of concrete moment frames at the office buildings.
Structural systems for the retail buildings and amphitheater were composite steel floor, steel trusses, concrete tilt-up wall construction and steel roof joist with lateral systems being diagonal steel bracing, moment frames and concrete shear walls.
Foundation systems for all buildings were cast-in-place concrete grade beams and piers.
