in Concrete Homes Magazine

This was initially designed as a 25-Story Residential Tower and a 5-Story Parking Garage. Soil conditions and public opinion combined to shrink the maximum heights, and eventually Whitley became a 13-Story Condo, a 10-Story Condo, and a 3-Story DockMaster Building and Marina, all sited directly on the Indian River Innercoastal Waterway in Cocoa, Florida.

The first two towers' levels are parking. Elevated ramps on retaining walls permit vehicle access to the elevated parking. The 13-story has 64 luxury condominiums units with an elaborate 2-story gazebo at the entry, sittings upon our original tower crane pile foundation pad. The 10-Story (now called Whitley Bay West) has 40 Units.

The Dockmaster Building sports an elevated swimming pool on the third floor, the first of its kind on The Space Coast. The Dockmaster Bldg has a lower 1st floor level of parking, a 2nd floor of offices, retail space, and the pool tank. The top level has the swimming pool surface, pool sundeck, and a pool bathhouse. A bridge links the 13-story tower and the Dockmaster building at the second floor. The Developer commented to Burlingham that he has built many of these elevated swimming pools in Hawaii, but our design is the first one that does not leak.

Sean Burlingham PE SI served as the Structural Engineer of Record and Special Inspector of Record for this Project. Burlingham provided the structural design, construction drawings, the structural inspection services. The structural construction of the 13-story and the 3-story Dockmaster was completed in January 2004; the 10-story in September 2004.

This Project was built in two phases. Phase One was the first three condominium towers sited directly on the Indian River / Innercoastal Waterway in Merritt Island, Florida. The Phase One Buildings are two 8-story and one 7-story Towers, which all together comprise a total of 107 Luxury Apartment Units.

Phase 2 is a very large 9-story building to the south of the first three (Phase 1) buildings. The 9-story Building "2A" is actually two structurally separate 9-story buildings sitting beside each other, and it houses 78 units. The total Project includes 185 luxury condominium units.

The complex is built around the seawalls of a deep water yacht basin. There are several recreation structures in the property including a one-story parking garage and elevated tennis deck, pool houses and meeting rooms, and a commercial dockmaster office for the marina.

Sean Burlingham P.E. served as the Structural Engineer of Record, and as the Special Inspector of Record for all these buildings in the Project. Our Firm provided all of the structural construction drawings and all of the structural inspection services.

The structural construction of the first building, the 7-story Tower, began in the spring of 2003. The fourth and final building structure was completed in July 2006.

This timeshare / hotel project is being built in several phases spanning many years, on the northern tip of the City of Cape Canaveral. It is along the southern shore of the main Port Canaveral channel, and is within sight of the cruise ship terminals, the Trident nuclear submarine wharf, and the NASA Space Center.

Phase One was the huge main hotel building: "Building 1," which is actually five structurally separate 5-story buildings attached to each other, and also to an elaborate 3-story tall open lobby and office space, with a large 2-story porte-cochcre. From the air, the separate parts of Building 1 are assembled to look like a huge number 3.

Building 2 is an L-shaped 5-Story hotel building sited directly on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the northern-most building structure in Brevard County before the expansive NASA Space Center property.

Building 1 has a total of 150 hotel units, and Building 2 has a total of 56 hotel units. There are several more future buildings in the planning stages to fill out the property.

There are two large parking garage structures on the site: a 2-story and a 3-story garage, with earth retaining wall ramps providing vehicle access to the upper decks. There is a poolhouse/locker building, an elaborate gazebo snack bar building, and a large flume pool behind Building 1. There is a 35-foot tall water slide into the flume pool. All of the buildings and amenities were structurally designed and built to resist hurricane force winds... and were all severely tested by mother nature during the 2004 hurricane season.

There are several more multi-story hotel, parking parage, and recreation buildings to be built on this property.

Sean Burlingham P.E. served as the Structural Engineer of Record, and as the Special Inspector of Record for this Project. Our Firm provided all of the structural construction drawings and all of the structural inspection services.

The design of this complex varied Project began in September 2001. The structural construction of the Phase 1 Buildings 1 and 2 and garages began in May 2002. The structural construction was complete in the early months of 2004. Construction of the next phase of the Ron Jon Resort was slated to start in early 2009, but the third phase was scrapped after the housing bubble.

Oleander Pointe is three very long 10-Story Apartment towers that are sited directly on the Indian River / Innercoastal Waterway in Cocoa, Florida.

The complex is built behind the seawalls of a deep water yacht basin. The first two floors of each 10-story tower are parking levels. The entire front entry to this building complex is an elevated parking deck; below it is a huge underground garage that connects the first floors of all three towers. The tower buildings are supported on post-tensioned raft footings, which in turn are supported by vibru-floatation sand piles. This is a fairly exotic type of building foundation that has performed exceptionally for our Project.

The construction of the first (north) tower began in October 1996, and the project's structural construction was completed in the summer of 1998.

This Project consists of two 5-Story Buildings, and an attached 3-Story Building recreation / meeting building, sited directly on the Atlantic Coast in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The first level of each buildings is a parking level. The remaining four levels above are occupied by a total of 64 high-end luxury condominiums units.

The elaborate 3-story recreation building/portico/meeting room structure attached to the west side of Building 1 was a particular challenge. This complicated three story structure houses two sets of restrooms, several meeting rooms and offices, an open stairwell, and an exercise room, which all are supported on a system of concrete beams that run over the large covered vehicle entry on the west face of Building 1.

These buildings are designed to withstand hurricane force winds, but to allow a 12-foot ocean storm surge to pass through the buildings, and thus to not undermine their foundations. If a hurricane-driven storm surge rises up over the dunes and hits the buildings, the first floor walls are designed to break away with the force of large ocean waves, and to allow the ocean to pass right through the first floor parking level of the buildings, while the main structure of the building survives above the destruction. Through this action the buildings will resist the tendency of a large hurricane to form artificial inlets through erosion around structures. This type of design for coastal erosion mitigation is required and is endorsed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. In the unlikely event that a 100-year storm surge directly hits this property and severely erodes the shoreline, these two buildings will become four story concrete stilt-supported buildings sitting above the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Sean Burlingham P.E. served as the Structural Engineer of Record, and as the Special Inspector of Record for this Project. Our Firm provided all of the structural construction drawings and all of the structural inspection services.

The structural construction of this Project began in February 2006 and was completed in May 2007.

This is a huge 8-story L-shaped hotel / timeshare building directly on the ocean coast in the City of Cocoa Beach.

This building structure is notable for being among the first direct ocean coastal buildings on the Space Coast that is built upon a post-tensioned concrete mat foundation. It has done well despite the novelty of its design.

There is a large parking garage structure on the site with elevated tennis decks and a large whirlpool hot tub on the second floor. A concrete pedestrian bridge connects the upper recreation deck to the main building.

Construction of this Project began in July 1997 and was completed on or around November 1998.

For more about The Cocoa Beach Resort, their website is here.

Solana Lake is a Project consisting of eight 5-Story apartment buildings situated around a man-made lake in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In the photo, the Ron Jon Resort, Port Canaveral, and the southern part of the NASA Space Center can be seen north of the site.

These seven buildings are all structurally identical. The first level is parking and the four above are condominium apartments. Seawalls surround the lake and the (also man-made) island in the middle of the lake, which is accessed by the owners by using one of three provided timber bridges. There is a pool, sun deck and a recreation building on the island.

Sean Burlingham P.E. served as the Structural Engineer of Record and as the Special Inspector of Record for this Project.

The structural construction of the first "Building A" began in March of 2000, and the final "Building H" was completed in January 2003.

This large development is to be built in the heart of Downtown Melbourne, in the pie-shaped land parcel between New Haven and Strawbridge Avenues, just to the west of the 192 Causeway bridge over the Indian River Lagoon.

As of this writing in 2008 - this project, which is to consist of two or possible three 16-Story towers - is stalled in the design stage, pending a turnaround in the Florida housing market.

This Project consists of a single U-shaped 5-Story Building that is actually three separate (but attached) building structures sited directly on the Atlantic Coast in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The first level is a parking level. The remaining four levels above are occupied by high-end luxury condominiums units. There is an elevated Recreation / Tennis Deck, approximately 65 feet x 120 feet, constructed west of the main apartment building. A detailed and well-decorated entrance courtyard inside the U of the U-shaped 5-story building makes this one of the most attractive Condo Projects we have built.

This building is designed to withstand hurricane force winds, but to allow a 12-foot ocean storm surge to pass through the building, and thus to not undermine their foundations. If a hurricane-driven storm surge rises up over the dunes and hits the main building, the first floor walls are designed to break away with the force of large ocean waves, and to allow the ocean to pass right through the first floor parking level of the building, while the main structure survives, above the destruction. Through this action the building will resist the tendency of a large hurricane to form artificial inlets through erosion around structures. This type of design for coastal erosion mitigation is required and is endorsed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. In the unlikely event that a 100-year storm surge directly hits this property and severely erodes the shoreline, this building will become four story concrete stilt-supported structure sitting above the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Sean Burlingham P.E. served as the Structural Engineer of Record, and as the Special Inspector of Record for this Project. Our Firm provided all of the structural construction drawings and all of the structural inspection services.

The structural construction of this Project began in July 2001 and was completed in April 2002.

A very detailed page for this project is here

This Project is a six-story Building located directly on Crane Creek. It is being built for a consortium of prominent local medical professionals that includes Dr. Richard Hynes and the Osler Medical Group.

The first three building floors are parking levels. The top three building floors are medical offices and surgery centers. We designed the primary building structure to be reinforced and post-tensioned concrete, utilizing masonry exterior walls throughout. The roof is a combination of structural steel and post-tensioned concrete.

Burlingham's very first multistory residential structural design, in south Cocoa Beach. She has held up well.