Stone’s Home Center, a hardware store with nine locations throughout Southwest Georgia and Northwest Florida specializing in hardware, building materials, agriculture, and animal feed, required engineering work for a new location in Quincy County off Blue Star Highway. We provided structural, roadway, and site development design for their new property consisting of three buildings on an 8.3-acre lot.
Each building was a pre-engineered metal building that required foundation and slab design. The single-story pre-engineered metal buildings presented specific challenges due to their extremely lightweight construction. We designed the foundations to withstand strong winds that cause positive uplift forces on the buildings.
We also designed the site layout for the parking lot and entrance road. The site design posed challenges because the property was located directly off a state highway, requiring special considerations for turning radius, conflict points, and separation of traffic streams throughout the property. Additionally, we designed the site to avoid interfering with a wetland located to the west of the property.
The design work for Stone’s Home Center allowed us to apply multiple specialties of civil engineering. Designing a property to accommodate multiple types of customers and an up-to-code roadway that provides safety for everyone who enters was a rewarding challenge.