This nine-story, cast-in-place, post-tensioned concrete design/build parking garage adds 250 much-needed parking spaces and 4,000 square feet of retail tenant space to downtown Indianapolis. CE Solutions selected post-tensioning techniques to best match floor-to-floor heights with the existing garage, improve durability and reduce columns for this tight site with a limited staging area. The structure was designed to accommodate two future office levels. CE Solutions extended the garage’s life expectancy and minimized maintenance requirements by increasing concrete reinforcement protection, adding a calcium nitrite corrosion inhibitor to the concrete mix, and applying a penetrating saline surface seal to the parking surface. The large-mat foundation (2,000 cubic yards of concrete) required a special concrete mix using ground granulated blast-furnace slag to minimize heat generation during the curing process.

Constructed | 2000
Awards | 2001 ACEC of Indiana Merit Award