Disneyland Parking Structure

This was the first major project undertaken by Guy Nordenson and Associates at the office’s inception in 1997. GNA was the structural engineer for both the preliminary design of the parking structure and the peer review of Walker Parking Consultants’ final design. Six stories tall, with a capacity for 10,250 cars, it is close to the largest parking structure in the world.

The structure is bisected by an open ramp-way, and each side is further divided into four parts by seismic joints for a total of eight separate building units. The garage is made of posttensioned cast-in-place concrete with a 5in thick slab spanning between secondary beams supported by girders. Slab and beam depths and column sizes are minimized to the absolute limit of efficiency for parking operations. The column grid was precisely calibrated by Walker Parking Consultants to maximize the number of parking spaces.