Toyota Walnut Creek Dealership

Walnut Creek, CA

FTF Engineering provided structural engineering services for the new two-story Toyota Walnut Creek dealership, a 240,000 square foot state-of-the-art automotive facility. The building features a ground-floor sales showroom and service reception area, a second-floor service shop with training rooms, office space, and a parts warehouse, along with 163,000 square feet of open parking distributed across the ground, second, and rooftop levels. The structure is primarily cast-in-place concrete construction, utilizing reinforced concrete columns, shear walls, and slabs. Post-tensioned girders were incorporated to achieve long spans and wide bays, optimizing the layout to align the architectural parking requirements with the service bays above. The foundation system consists of economical shallow foundations, including spread footings, grade beams, and a heavily reinforced mat slab. This approach was selected to accommodate the variable subsurface conditions, with bedrock encountered at depths ranging from the finished floor level to approximately 30 feet below grade.