Morabito Consultants provided structural engineering design services for a new eight-story outpatient center for Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Located within a dense urban medical campus, the project required careful coordination with adjacent structures, property line construction, and integration with a neighboring parking garage.

The structural system consists of composite steel floor framing supported by steel columns and deep foundation systems, with reinforced concrete basement and retaining wall construction. A pedestrian bridge connects the new outpatient center to the existing garage and cantilevers from the second-floor framing, requiring specialized structural analysis and detailing to ensure stability, serviceability, and long-term performance.

Due to property line construction on multiple sides of the building, Morabito Consultants implemented innovative foundation and retaining wall solutions, including combined column footings and toe-only retaining wall footings to avoid projection beyond the building footprint. The design also required coordination of deep foundation elements, basement wall construction sequencing, adjacent structures, utilities, structural steel moment frames, and program changes including expansion to a full basement and additional building height.

The completed outpatient center demonstrates Morabito Consultants’ experience with urban healthcare structural design, composite steel framing, deep foundations, cantilevered pedestrian bridges, basement construction, and complex coordination within a constrained medical campus.