The Portland
St. Petersburg, Florida


The Portland is located in St. Petersburg, FL, and is a twelve story workforce housing building with three lower levels designed as a parking garage. Some of the key architectural features include tapered walls, cantilevered decks, and floor to ceiling curtain walls overlooking the city of St. Petersburg, FL. The primary structural system consists of post-tension floor slabs supported by cast in place concrete columns. Post-tension slabs allow for a lower floor-to-floor height because intermediate beams are not required, soils and a small site of approximately 15,000 square feet made the foundation system difficult to design, but with the use of the latest finite element modeling systems, MCE was able to efficiently design an intricate foundation system that combined eccentric spread footings and mat foundations to optimize material use and fit within the encroaching property lines.

The Portland
St. Petersburg, Florida


The Portland is located in St. Petersburg, FL, and is a twelve story workforce housing building with three lower levels designed as a parking garage. Some of the key architectural features include tapered walls, cantilevered decks, and floor to ceiling curtain walls overlooking the city of St. Petersburg, FL. The primary structural system consists of post-tension floor slabs supported by cast in place concrete columns. Post-tension slabs allow for a lower floor-to-floor height because intermediate beams are not required, soils and a small site of approximately 15,000 square feet made the foundation system difficult to design, but with the use of the latest finite element modeling systems, MCE was able to efficiently design an intricate foundation system that combined eccentric spread footings and mat foundations to optimize material use and fit within the encroaching property lines.

The Portland
St. Petersburg, Florida


The Portland is located in St. Petersburg, FL, and is a twelve story workforce housing building with three lower levels designed as a parking garage. Some of the key architectural features include tapered walls, cantilevered decks, and floor to ceiling curtain walls overlooking the city of St. Petersburg, FL. The primary structural system consists of post-tension floor slabs supported by cast in place concrete columns. Post-tension slabs allow for a lower floor-to-floor height because intermediate beams are not required, soils and a small site of approximately 15,000 square feet made the foundation system difficult to design, but with the use of the latest finite element modeling systems, MCE was able to efficiently design an intricate foundation system that combined eccentric spread footings and mat foundations to optimize material use and fit within the encroaching property lines.