(New York – September 2, 2010) – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, received the National Council of Structural Engineers Association’s (NCSEA) 2010 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award for The Wild Beast Music Pavilion at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). The awards presentation ceremony will be held October 2, 2010 at the NCSEA’s Sixteenth Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency on the Hudson, in Jersey City, NJ.

Thornton Tomasetti provided structural design services for this unique music pavilion on the CalArts campus in Valencia, California. The free-standing, single-story, 3,200 square-foot building serves as a home for the indoor-outdoor rehearsal and performance space for the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, with a rolling wall that allows the structure to transform from an acoustically refined recital hall accommodating 140, to an outdoor performance space for an audience of up to 1,000. The architect for the project is Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates.

“It’s an honor for Thornton Tomasetti to be recognized by the NCSE for creative achievement and innovation in structural engineering for the Wild Beast Music Pavilion project,” said Bruce Gibbons, senior principal, P.E., S.E., LEED AP.

About Thornton Tomasetti (www.ThorntonTomasetti.com)
Thornton Tomasetti provides engineering design services to clients worldwide on projects of all sizes and complexity, with practices in building structure, building skin, building performance, construction support services and property loss consulting. From the tallest buildings and the longest spans, to innovative building systems, materials and analysis, we are committed to creating the best solutions through our technical ingenuity, pursuit of excellence, and responsiveness to client needs. Founded in 1956, today Thornton Tomasetti is a 550-person organization of engineers and architects collaborating from offices across the United States and in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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