PROJECTS

At Structures we have a variety of examples that highlight our diverse and resourceful capabilities. Planning and execution of massive Earth Retention and Segmental Pavement projects has accelerated as General Contractors and owners see the care and ingenuity built into our recent work.

Indian Hill High School

Indian Hill High School needed an Earth Retention System to support a new sports complex which included a tennis court, sidewalks, and sports facility. For this concept to become a reality, structures worked alongside with Megan Construction Company, Inc and… Read More

YMCA

Structures worked along side Miron Construction on a new YMCA facility for the Wisconsin Rapids community. Once an obsolete and mostly vacant downtown mall, the new YMCA is now a lively accessible facility convenient to several nearby low-income communities. The… Read More

Nolan Mains

Structures collaborated with Frana Companies and Damon Farber in the design, engineering and construction process to reimagine a neglected street of Edina’s famed 50th and France neighborhood into an extended and improved shopping district. Once an old cafés parking lot,… Read More

Costco Wholesale

In 2019 Structures worked alongside Novak Construction and Frattalone Companies to build one of the largest Earth Retention systems in the Twin Cities. The new Costco Wholesale once a 166,800 square foot piece of land filled with varied topography, is… Read More

VyStar Credit Union

Structures was solicited for the VyStar Credit Union project in Orange City, Florida to come up with a value engineered design for a proposed H-Pile retaining wall system. The credit union was challenged with using minimal space for the retaining… Read More

The Moline

The Moline is a project centered in the heart of historic downtown Hopkins. The Architect was challenged to add an outdoor amenity deck to satisfy the new residences. The amenity deck includes a putting green, grill station and bar, firepit,… Read More

St. John’s Episcopal Church

St. John’s Episcopal Church set forth to remodel their basement classrooms. Doing this required the installation of a new Handicap ADA ramp from street level down to the basement. The Architect used Anchor Brisa retaining wall units to hold back… Read More

Westminster Presbyterian Church

The “Open Doors Open Futures” project for Westminster Presbyterian Church was designed with both permeable and non-permeable pavers. The non-permeable pavers were the Belgard Rinn Padio 14 multi-sized paver system, 80mm thick, in a Graphite color. The permeable pavers used… Read More

Gibraltar Compressor Station

The Gibraltar Compressor Station is just one small piece to the Gibraltar and Buffalo Creek System pipeline project in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. Columbia Midstream (Part of TransCanada) solicited the services of Glenn O Hawbaker and RediRock wall systems… Read More

De La Pointe

The De La Pointe building is one of two projects completed by Graves Development Properties in Uptown, Minneapolis in 2017. Nestled on the corner of Holmes Ave and W 31st St, De La Pointe used permeable pavers to capture storm water on their… Read More

Mahtomedi Schools 2016 Pavement Reconstruction

Mahtomedi Public Schools had three sites that were in need of pavement reconstruction. Two sites had proposed segmental permeable paving in the parking lots. The District Office would have permeable pavers in nearly every parking stall calling for about 14,000… Read More

Leinenkugel Malt Handling Building

The Leinenkugel Brewing Company was expanding. To build a new Malt Handling building on their Chippewa Falls property, would require massive regrading. A three tiered retaining wall was proposed. During the design phase of the project, it was discovered that… Read More

Life Time Fitness – Over 20 Locations Nationally

Structures has many Life Time Fitness projects across the country. As we do with all our clients, we strive to build a lasting relationship and it has shown with Life Time Fitness for over a decade now. The projects typically… Read More

Liberty Center

The Liberty Center is a multi-use center consisting of over 100 acres of shops, restaurants, residences, and many small business and retail. The site called for seven retaining walls, two of which were design/build to withstand vehicular impact and support… Read More

Downtown East Commons

The city of Minneapolis has called the Downtown East Commons project a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to design and build a new public open space in downtown Minneapolis. The project is a new 4.2 acre public park located in the center of… Read More

The Legacy Ship

The NFL’s Minnesota Vikings created the Legacy Ship at their new stadium to allow fans to create a memento to honor their family and friends’ connection to the team. The first phase of the ship was completed with about 5,000… Read More

Newport Pavilion

The Newport Pavilion property was growing and needed to expand their parking lot to account for new business. This meant going into a hillside that would require a large retaining wall. The owner wanted the Allan Block Europa for the… Read More

Mankato Public Safety Building

This project includes over 5,000 SF of Gabion Basket retaining walls. The walls were designed with a maximum height of 14′ with enough geogrid reinforcement to support heavy vehicular loading, such as firetrucks. The baskets were filled with limestone rip-rap… Read More

Rose Ct Rehabilitation

In 2014, this wall failed due to excessive water runoff coming to the back of the retaining wall off the roof of the houses. Structures was tasked to not only rebuild the wall, but design a sustainable storm water drainage… Read More

The Charmant Hotel

The Charmant Hotel was originally constructed in 1898 and has become an iconic travel spot for the City of Lacrosse. The hotel underwent major renovations in 2015, but in an effort to keep its historic value, the renovation project would… Read More

Stillwater Mills

Stillwater Mills is a new residential condominium complex nestled in the heart of historic Downtown Stillwater with retail shops on the ground floor. To make the building work, a retaining wall was constructed along the west property line at over… Read More

Scott Street Parking Building

When the City of Bluefield decided to add a parking lot to their small city on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the project would require an over 40′ grade break. An existing cast-in-place wall remained during construction while… Read More

Bluestone Flats

Bluestone Flats is a student housing facility at the University of Minnesota-Duluth that wanted to add more outdoor space to their Phase 2 building. Structures started the project by installing six stone wall planting beds on top of building insulation… Read More

Loring Green Rehabilitation

Structures was contracted for the demolition and new installation of the paver driveway and walkways including new concrete curbs and storm water drainage systems. First, the existing driveway, walkways, curbs, and brick planter walls were demolished and removed. The new… Read More

Cincinnati Mini Dealership

This project took an existing BMW Dealership and expanded the South parking lot to add a sales and services building while also increasing parking space to account for new Mini inventory. To achieve this, the site needed eight new retaining… Read More

Twin Cities Outlet Mall

Structures was originally selected to install the base bid paver scope of about 50,000 SF. When the walkway schedule pushed into the winter season, and schedule became imminent, the Project Manager at Ryan Companies turned to Structures for a feasible… Read More

Meijer Store

This project was value engineered to utilize Recon Modular Blocks in lieu of a Cast-in-Place retaining wall. With nearly 40,000 SF of retaining wall, we were able to provide the owner significant savings over the originally designed retaining wall. One… Read More

Rivercrest

This project consists of multiple retaining walls that required strategic engineering considerations for preserving the heavily wooded areas that surround the property. The retaining walls along the tree line were constructed with the use of drilled concrete H-Piles behind the… Read More

Target North Campus

Description: This project called for center stage attraction featuring the Target logo and a functional driveway. The driveway sits on a poured concrete slab base and a bituminous setting bed under the pavers. The construction and layout of the logo… Read More