Susan E. Scott, PE


Recent Notable Projects




Belo Center for New Media, University of Texas

Austin, TX

Five-level, 250,000 sq ft, pan joist building, with post-tensioned girders, composite steel wings, and bar joist roof. Designed piers, columns, basement walls, wind frames, cantilevered terrace roof, and monumental stairs.

Construction is beginning.




Hemingway Medical Office Building

Killeen, TX

Three-level composite steel office building, produced using Revit. Designed piers, columns, floor systems, wind bracing, canopy. Handled all construction administration.

Structure is complete.

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Dell Children’s Medical Center Neurosurgery Addition

Austin, TX

Small two-story underground addition to Dell Children’s Medical Center. Designed two reinforced-concrete pan-joist floors and two-level retaining walls. Designed steel supports for IMRIS equipment, with strict deflection and vibration requirements. Designed concrete pan-joist roof for current green-roof usage and future floor usage, with a CMU mechanical penthouse. Designed connections to existing building. Designed two-level shaft with hatch for IMRIS equipment to be installed through.

Addition is complete.

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Scott & White Hospital Additions

Temple, TX

Various additions to existing hospital, pan joist and composite steel systems. Designed floor and lateral framing, including connections to existing structure. Handled most construction administration work, including numerous field problems due to existing building irregularities not shown on existing plans. Designed supports for heliport on roof. Sealed drawings for Central Utility Plant building

Cancer Center is complete. Construction on hold for Central Utility Plant. Surgical Sciences Building plans put on hold at 25%.

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Seton Hospital Women’s Center Addition

Austin, TX

Composite steel hospital addition, five levels. One-story-deep truss at level 5 cantilevers out to pick up 85' truss where addition cuts across corner of existing building. Levels 3 and 4 are suspended from truss above, as windows precluded trusses at these levels. Designed truss, wind braces, columns, and piers. Designed cantilever retaining wall which supports east side of structure.

Building is complete.

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Chickasaw Nation Medical Center

Ada, OK

Composite steel hospital in seismic area, one to four levels, approximately 400,000 sq ft., with provision for two more levels. Designed seismic-resisting lateral steel moment frames and piers.

Structure is complete.




Scott & White Round Rock Hospital and Clinic

Round Rock, TX

Three-level composite steel clinic and two-to-four level reinforced concrete hospital, with provision for expansion up to eight levels. Designed piers, grade beams, floor and roof beams, columns and wind braces for clinic. Designed piers, grade beams, columns, shear walls, and moment frames for hospital. Acted as interim project manager, coordinating 100% hospital issue, for several weeks.

Clinic and hospital are complete.

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Barsana Dham Mandala Canopy

Austin, TX

112'-diameter domed canopy consisting of radial steel trusses supported on the inside by a central compression ring and on the outside by full-height steel columns alternating with stub columns resting on existing concrete structures. Stability provided by a ring of arched trusses connecting the columns.

Designed trusses, beams, and slip connections to prevent lateral loading of existing concrete.

Structure is not yet under construction.




Nicholas S. Perez Elementary School

Austin, TX

One-level, multi-building, steel-framed elementary school. Designed foundation and coordinated with DBE subcontractor, who designed steel framing and wind bracing. Handled all construction administration work, including numerous field problems.

Buildings are complete

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Old Red Courthouse Restoration

Dallas, TX

Designed steel truss frame inside tower of 19th-century historic courthouse to support reconstruction of massive masonry clock tower and turrets which had been removed early in the century. Frame is supported on two-way grid of steel beams, anchored in pockets in lower part of existing masonry walls. It supports a 2-foot-thick slab which cantilevers out over 8' past the top of the walls to avoid imposing new gravity and wind loads on the deteriorating masonry.

Project is complete.

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Northpark Mall Cinema Additions

Dallas, TX

Steel and composite steel 15-screen movie theater above a shopping mall.

Designed roof beams and joists, composite steel floors, stadium seating and raker beams, split level main floor level, columns, transfer girders, and lateral load system. Designed multiple steel trusses of up to 125' in length. Designed projection mezzanines for vibration control.

Additions are complete, with ongoing revisions for new tenant requirements.




Scott & White Patient Tower Additions

Temple, TX

Nine-level, 450,000 sq ft addition to existing hospital.

Designed most of the structural steel roof and canopy system. Designed concrete columns, piers, and footings. Designed 120-ft pipe support truss and cantilever pipe supports. Took over design of reinforced concrete pan joist system when other design engineer left on vacation. Acted as project manager for two weeks, coordinating issues of two addenda, while project manager was out of town.

Project was partially constructed but halted, demolished, and re-designed due to budget problems. Handled most construction administration and coordination with contractors and architects for the constructed portion.




Austin City Hall

Austin, TX

Three-level underground parking garage, with basement level and 4-level building above.

Designed columns for parking garage up to plaza level (building above designed by DBE subcontractor). Designed reinforced concrete plaza level for several feet of earth and trees, plus potential traffic. Designed beams and slabs supporting building, involving major transfer girders and multiple irregular floor drops. Designed supports for photovoltaic canopies. Building was winner of 2006 CRSI Design & Construction Excellence Award.

Building is complete.

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Brushy Creek MUD Recreation Center

Round Rock, TX


Conventional steel structure combined with two pre-engineered metalbuildings.

Designed steel structure and its interaction with pree-engineered metal buildings, plus concrete foundation.

Structure is complete.

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Hill Country Middle School Expansion

Austin, TX


Several new buildings and building additions to existing school.

Designed steel structures, masonry shear walls, and concrete foundations. Worked closely with the Contractor to resolve a number of unforeseen problems involving existing conditions and construction errors.

Structure is complete.

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Prim Library at Sierra Nevada College

Incline Village, NV


Composite steel and glu-lam building in region with high seismic loads and high snowfall, with many design complications, such as non-continuous roof diaphragms, limited member depth, lack of redundancy in lateral bracing, and footings in lieu of piers.

Designed steel, composite steel, and glu-lam members. Designed seismic bracing system.

Building is currently under construction.

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Dallas Police Memorial

Dallas, TX


11' x 93' flat stainless steel structure cantilevering off of a built-up tube with a parallelogram-shaped cross-section, which itself cantilevered off of a small group of angled stainless steel columns. The tube was post-tensioned and the columns were cambered to reduce dead-load deflections.

Designed steel structure and steel-and-concrete composite foundation.

Structure is complete. Featured in the April 2003 issue of Structure.

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