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Restaurant · 2025
RPHC Cafe & Conference Center
A single-story steel and masonry cafe, teaching kitchen and conference center for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
- Type
- Restaurant
- Year
- 2025
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ
- My role
- Project engineer
- Structural system
- Steel beams and joists on metal deck, CMU walls, steel moment frames
- Size
- 1 story · 22,500 SF
- Materials
- Steel, Masonry
- Status
- In construction
Overview
A cafe, commercial teaching kitchen and conference center at the River People Health Center, designed with SmithGroup for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Structure
- Gravity: steel beams and joists on metal roof deck, with CMU walls
- Lateral: steel ordinary moment frames
- Foundations: spread footings on engineered fill
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