ISLAND HEALTH & FITNESS CENTER – ITHACA, NEW YORK, USA

Ithaca Fitness and Health Center is located in Ithaca, New York. Island Health Center is a state-of-the-art 50,000 square foot building on a 65,000 square foot complex that was developed by Community Corners, Inc. Terry, Tim and Joe Ciaschi originally came up with the idea of a cutting edge fitness facility roughly four years ago. Together with the help of their father Joseph Ciaschi, they initiated and proceeded forward with the development of the Island Health Center and Island Health & Fitness. 

Working as a team with Engineer Peter. D. Novelli and Reginal Garcia, We were the principal structural Designers/Engineers and the creator of this tri-dimensional model and structural finite analysis using ETABS V8.0 and SAFE V7.0. This structural design includes several loading factors like snow loading design, wind design and seismic design with the ASCE7-05 code requirements and ACI-318-05 code for the structural design of reinforced concrete structures (columns, beams, shear walls and foundations of the tower). This particular building is located in very loose soil which lead to a platform foundation designed that virtually suspended the building on a series of 150’ long buried steel piles.