Martin & Chock, Inc. has extensive experience in the alteration, renovation, and retrofit of all types of buildings and structures, involving dozens of projects with a combined construction cost of approximately $300 million in the past ten years. These projects have ranged from multi-story hotel and office buildings containing hundreds of thousands of square feet floor area, to low-rise schools, apartments, shopping centers, office buildings, warehouses, clinics, and industrial buildings.

Repair projects include corrosion damage repairs of reinforced concrete structures, corrosion damage repairs of structural steel-framed structures, repairs of wood framed structures due to termite and dry rot damage, repairs required due to foundation differential settlement, repairs required due to expansive soils, hurricane damage repairs, earthquake damage repairs, and fire damage repairs. We are currently under contract to provide the first cathodic protection system retrofit to a concrete building in Hawaii.

Innovative methods and techniques have been developed and utilized where traditional methods were not suitable or uneconomical. These innovative renovation methods have involved creation of carbon fiber composite overlays for the repair and retrofit of concrete structural elements, composite concrete floor systems, composite concrete columns, horizontal and vertical plywood diaphragms in existing wood structures without removal of existing flooring and walls, and the in-place construction of composite wood and steel beams.

The firm's excellence in design has been recognized by the engineering awards bestowed by the Consulting Engineers Council of Hawaii for two major renovation projects. The Historic Restoration of the Sheraton Moana Hotel was awarded the Grand Conceptor Award in 1990, and the structural retrofit of the Alii Tower at the Hilton Hawaiian Village received an Honor Award in 1988.