All Saints Catholic Church

Early engineering involvement by VLMK Consulting Engineers was key on this new All Saints Catholic Church, associated social hall, and school project located in Lewiston, Idaho.  Preliminary structural engineering services were provided for all proposed phased to determine project feasibility.  Subsequently, design proceeded on the church and social hall portions of the project with the school facility being deferred.  To date, the church and social hall portions have been permitted, though construction is currently deferred.

The new one-story facility, consisting of the church itself and the social hall, comprise approximately 50,690 square feet.  The building is constructed of light frame wood bearing walls.  The roof structure consists of solid sawn joists, glulam joists, manufactured lumber joists, wood chord plywood web joists, and wood chord open web trusses supported by glulam beams and wood posts.  Interior exposed heavy timber trusses consist of metal plate-connected glulam trusses.  Larger interior beams are supported with glulam and manufactured wood columns.

 The foundation utilizes conventional concrete spread footings and continuous line footings.  The lateral system consists of light framed wood stud walls sheathed with wood structural panels rated for shear resistance.  At the tower, special glulam frames are used to resist lateral load.