Renovation & expansion of Freehouse Brewery, Charleston, SC.

Bema A/E provided structural engineering consulting for a new rooftop childrens’ play space, as part of the new Erlanger Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center. With Elemi Architects, Branch Technology, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., and artist Isaac Duncan III.

Feasibility study for new office & facilities complex in Chattanooga, TN.

Bema A/E provided architectural services for a partial renovation of an existing assisted living facility in Hendersonville, TN.

Full structural design of a large traditional residence in Chattanooga, TN.

Expansion and renovation to a mountain farmhouse

Hybrid-structure house: conventional stick framing + exposed Douglas Fir heavy timber.  Bema performed structural engineering for the house, including calculation of the residual capacity of the heavy timber elements after exposure to a fire event.

Bema A/E was involved in investigating options for a new outdoor seating/patio area for an existing restaurant in Chattanooga, TN.

Renovation/ addition to an existing residence in Chattanooga, for which we provided architectural and structural design.

Addition and renovation of an existing residence on Signal Mountain, TN, for which we are providing architectural and structural services.

New construction in Atlanta, GA, for which we provided structural engineering.  With Kirkman Associates, architect.

New construction of a residence in Atlanta, GA, for which we are providing structural design.  With Kirkman Associates, architect.

New construction proposed on Signal Mountain, Tennessee.  The site presented extremely challenging constraints: triangular lot with small buildable area; a 50' street right-of-way offset from the street centerline by 5' (reducing the front yard setback 5', while properties across the street benefit from a 5' closer-to-street buildable line); solid bedrock subsurface conditions; a 600-foot sheer drop 15-20 feet beyond the rear wall of the proposed house.  Bema A/E was able to "win" a variance approval from the town for a reduced setback, after a difficult application and public hearing process.

New construction townhomes in Chattanooga, for which we provided structural design.  With Cogent Studio, architect.

Riverside visitors' pavilion - study.  It's an incredible site: littered with prehistoric stone defense walls, relics of the moonshine era, building ruins, and mountain and gorge vistas that no doubt have given pause to inhabitants and visitors to this place for thousands of years.

In 2014, Bema A/E and New Blue Construction won a design competition and contract to design four Net Zero houses, to be built in Chattanooga, TN, in partnership with GreenSpaces Chattanooga.  The houses are designed to be site net zero energy, meaning that solar photovoltaics integrated into the houses will produce as much energy as the houses consume over the course of a year.  The houses are to be marketed and sold on the open real estate market.  The project team consisted of Bema A/E (architecture/structure), W.M. Whitaker & Associates (landscape architecture), New Blue Construction (general contractors), Conditionaire (HVAC design), and Tom Butler (energy modeling).

A series of study models, for mouses.  Basswood, cork, walnut, and safety scissors.

Signal Mountain, TN, 2012-13

Smyrna, GA, 2010-11

Project involved creating new finished living spaces from an existing unfinished basement shell space, including a kids' playroom, kitchenette, bedroom, bathroom, exercise room, and workshop.  Materials and products used include cork flooring, Ikea cabinets and countertops, and custom art display panels comprised of magnetic perforated metal panels on painted homasote.

Atlanta, GA, 2010-11

Project was design/build completed during previous experience with Houser Walker Architecture.  Jamie served as project manager for design and construction, as well as structural engineer.

Project involved renovation and expansion of an existing residence in midtown Atlanta.  Work included a complete kitchen renovation, new family room, playroom, childrens' bedrooms  and bathroom, patio with firepit, rooftop deck, and monumental stair.  Materials and products used included custom built steel windows and 10-ft pivoting doors, exposed cast-in-place concrete with internal insulation, Siematic cabinetry and Miele appliances, solar hot water, in-floor radiant heating, ipe wood decking and built-in exterior seating, western red cedar trim and exposed structural elements, and a site-cast rainwater collection cistern.

Georgia Tech, 2010-11

Project was previous experience at Houser Walker Architecture.  Jamie served as project manager.

Outdoor pavilion with storage and bathrooms for Georgia Tech’s outdoor Leadership Challenge Course.  Materials and products used included exposed structural steel framing, exposed sitecast concrete, polycarbonate roof panels, polished concrete masonry, ipe wood cladding, and an atomized misting cooling system.  Project was a 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Sports Facilities Award by the National Intramural and Recreation Association.

2011-13, Gainesville, GA

Project was previous experience at Houser Walker Architecture.  Jamie served as project manager.

Don Carter State Park, on Lake Lanier, is a new Georgia State Park containing a visitor center, rental cabins, bathhouse, and several utility and accessory structures.  Materials used included local stone rubble, exposed douglas fir roof trusses, marine grade douglas fir plywood, custom steel fabrications at heavy timber connections, exposed sitecast concrete, and standing seam metal roofing.

Sawnee Mountain Preserve Treehouse

Forsyth County, GA, 2008-09

Project completed during previous experience at Houser Walker Architecture.   Jamie served as project manager.

Outdoor learning classroom and shelter space integrated into an open boardwalk, with access to treetop ropes course.  Materials used included exposed pressure treated pine framing, corrugated metal deck, and custom fabricated steel connections.

Atlanta, GA, 2012-13

Renovation and addition to a one-story ranch house.  In a neighborhood where many other older houses are being demolished or "blowing the top off" to enable vastly larger, more imposing houses, the owners of this home wanted to maintain an appropriate sense of scale of the existing home, while updating the master suite and main entry.  A family room addition to the rear creates a semi-enclosed courtyard ideal for outdoor eating. 

Renovation and addition to a residence in Brookhaven, GA, 2012-13

The project involved converting an existing garage into a new family room, improving visual and physical access to a rear garden, and creating new outdoor living spaces and a new garage. 

Team design competition for City of Chattanooga Low Impact Design Challenge.  Design process included research and analysis of region, historical context, climatic concerns and natural patterns, market and urbanism within the context of the City's mandate for reducing the impact of stormwater events on infrastructure.  In collaboration with Koons Environmental Design (landscape architecture) and EcoWise (civil engineering).

St. Nicholas Episcopal

Hamilton, Georgia

Jamie is structural engineer of record for an addition to an existing church in west Georgia.  Houser Walker Architecture are architects of record. 

Atlanta, GA, 2013

Jamie provided structural engineering for design of a free-standing precast concrete entry portico, as part of the renovation and addition to the columbarium at St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church. 

New construction of a storage facility in Collegedale, TN, for which we provided architectural services.