Sanford, FL

The Zenner Group

One of the first dealerships with Toyota's distinctive new signage, this 86,000 square foot building has an open showroom with structural steel framing.  The body shop and service areas include reinforced masonry load bearing walls and shear walls with a bar joist roof, all designed to resist hurricane winds.  PEC worked closely with Zenner Group and the Contractor to help ensure that the project was completed within budget.

Chamblee, GA

The Zenner Group

This three level high end dealership incorporates a variety of structural systems on a site with a large elevation drop.  It includes a conventionally framed steel framed building for the show room, a pre-cast parking and storage facility, and a pre-engineered metal building over the service areas and body shop.  PEC helped calculate required lengths for the individual support piles based on local conditions to keep the foundation in budget, and designed a 30’ basement wall braced by the parking deck to conform to the sloping site.

Marietta, GA

PRO Building Systems

Although several dealerships told Audi they could not build this prototype design, PEC and PRO Building took the challenge and completed the project for Jim Ellis on time and within budget - it’s the only example of this design in the US.  The exterior of the building is skewed glass on three sides, covered by a curved, cantilevered roof.  Lateral bracing consists of moment frames in two directions, with curved custom roof trusses and skewed steel pipe columns in the long direction.

Duluth, GA

PRO Building Systems

PEC and PRO Building collaborated to modify and renovate an existing one story pre-engineered metal building to conform to the new corporate standards for Hummer dealerships.  The finished design now includes a complex, curved roof and the signature “H” incorporated into the building’s front wall structure, as well as new service bays and numerous other upgrades.  As we have done for many projects, PEC also prepared presentation calculations to satisfy requirements established by the governing jurisdiction, in this case Gwinnett County. 

Miami, FL

The Zenner Group

Dade Chrysler is an attractive building and a state of the art dealership, but the biggest challenges on this project were the extreme code wind provisions and Dade County’s intensive permitting review process.  This location is in a “High Velocity Hurricane Zone” and a “Wind-Borne Debris Region” with a design wind speed of a brutal 146 mph.  PEC worked closely with The Zenner Group, the Contractor, and the local third party engineering review consultants to deliver structural design, detailing, and calculations packages that satisfied the extensive Dade County code checklist requirements plus an additional list of approximately 125 review items specific to this project.