Harbour Town Club House

Home of the RBC Heritage Tournament, the new Harbour Town Golf Links clubhouse was constructed of two levels of conventional structural steel over a conventional reinforced concrete podium slab spanning the golf cart parking area below. The clubhouse includes a living room lounge, terraces and covered porches, an elegant banquet and event room, signature pro shop, and a professional locker room.

In order to optimally design the structural steel to accommodate the open, airy spaces, a two-stage seismic analysis was performed, which allowed the design to consider a shorter effective height for the building. This translated into column and beam sizes that were architecturally acceptable, while maintaining the stiffness required to resist Category C seismic loads and forces resulting from 140 mph wind gusts.