B a r b e r  &  H o f f m a n ,  I n c . C o n s u l t i n g E n g i n e e r s
	Project Name: Location: Owner: Project Cost: Year Completed:				Hiram College - Gerstacker Hall Hiram, Ohio Hiram College $5,700,000 2000
	Hiram College is a small private college located about 45 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio.  Gerstacker Science Hall is a three-story 30,000-square-foot new structure with a basement level used for science education and laboratories.  A central meeting space is provided to accommodate interaction between all the science disciplines.
	In addition, an existing street was relocated in order to exemplify the building's architectural presence between the campus and the town. The sloped roof encloses a mechanical room at one half of the third floor while the other half remains open for a rooftop mechanical unit.  The large 16-foot floor-to-floor height accommodates mechanical requirements and future tie-in considerations to an adjacent existing building. The floor structure consists of composite steel beams with concrete slab on composite metal deck.  The sloped roof construction is steel joists and beams with structural stress-skin panels.  The arched and flat roof construction is steel joists and beams with insulated panels.  The lateral resisting system is ordinary moment resistive frames.