Case Study
Commerce Center
PROJECT PROFILE WJE www.wje.com Commerce Center Investigation of Floor Slab Distress | Scottsdale, AZ CLIENT iStar Financial, Inc. BACKGROUND The Commerce Center is a multi- tenant, 103,550-square-foot, single- story building that can be utilized as office, warehouse, or office/showroom space. It was constructed around 2008 but was not occupied until years later, when a tenant moved into a portion of the building. Isolated concrete pop-outs were discovered in the surface of the soil-supported concrete slab during tenant finish out. While the distress was not operationally significant to the first tenant, leasing to subsequent tenants required that the cause of the