Featured Project

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Providence Chinese Laundry Project

The Providence Chinese Laundry is an intricate renovation project of a small 1850's commercial building located at the base of Providence's College Hill. The site, formerly used as a laundry/cleaning facility, has been selected to house Providence's newest Sushi restuarant. The project consists of selectively demolishing the existing structure, preserving the structures historically significant components and outfitting the building for use as a restaurant. The existing structure will have a two story addition at the back of the building adding much needed floor space.

Common to structures built in the mid 1800's, the building had no lower level restricting the restaurant's potential occupancy. Design engineers have chosen to increase available space by adding a new room beneath the existing facility. The process requires the removal of approximately 200 cubic yards of material beneath the building and subsequent underpinning of the existing stone foundation. A new concrete foundation will be installed below the existing stone foundation in conjunction with steel piers. Complicating the entire procedure is the ever present stream of ground water. Join our team in the upcoming weeks as we attempt to contain the flow of ground water and install concrete formwork for cast in place concrete.