Laserfiche knew that they needed a new headquarters and wanted to stay in hometown Long Beach. They enlisted acclaimed architecture firm Studio One Eleven to design a bold and sophisticated building to fit within the context of streamline Long Beach architecture. This building’s iconic, horizontally oriented street-scale language adds to the burgeoning architectural spirit of a revitalized Long Beach. Structural Focus provided structural engineering services to design a structure supporting this intrepid vision. With cantilevered floors at both ends and balconies loaded with seating and heavy planters, engineering the steel building required careful modeling and analysis to generate precise and predictable behavior. Cantilevers are supported using exposed steel tube gravity braces, and strategically placed and sized reduced beam section moment frames form a lateral system that allows creative office layouts and long bands of tall, repeating windows at the perimeter. Construction specifications allowed cantilevered floors to maintain final deflections at a virtually undetectable minimum.
