Linchpin was the structural engineer for the new eleven-story hotel tower at Coushatta Resort, located within the jurisdiction of the Coushatta Tribe reservation. The new hotel tower includes 19,000 square feet at the main level and 10,000 square feet each level above, with a breezeway for drop-off and valet beneath it at the main entrance.
The tower was framed with post-tensioned concrete slabs, concrete columns, and cast-in-place concrete shear walls, while the porte-cocheres used steel moment frames for lateral resistance. Loose topsoil and a high water table called for deep foundations. Linchpin designed augered cast-in-place piles supporting the tower and porte-cocheres, working with the geotechnical engineer to develop the loading capacities that worked with the vertical and lateral demands.