Special Projects by Reigstad Engineers

Structures that fall outside the ordinary, and require exactly that kind of thinking.

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Engineering the Exceptional Since 1979

Some projects don't fit a standard category. The 2018 Winter Carnival Ice Palace doesn't. A warming house designed for a television broadcast partnership doesn't. Tension structures, sun shades, and a Hall of Fame building don't. These are the kinds of projects Reigstad Engineers has been taking on since 1979, the ones that require the same rigorous structural engineering discipline as any commercial building, applied to a brief that nobody has quite seen before.

The projects listed here represent a cross-section of Reigstad's special and distinctive work, structures where creativity and effective communication with owners, architects, and fabricators were as important as the engineering itself.

Selected Special Projects

A range of structures where the engineering challenge was as distinctive as the project itself.

2018 Winter Carnival Ice Palace

Structural engineering for one of Minnesota's most recognizable seasonal landmarks, a temporary structure built from ice, with all the load and thermal complexity that implies.

KARE 11 Anderson Windows Warming House

A partnership project combining broadcast visibility with functional structure, a warming house engineered to perform in a Minnesota winter while meeting a media partner's design intent.

Valleyfair Tension Structures

Tensioned fabric and cable structures at Valleyfair present engineering challenges distinct from conventional framing, requiring careful analysis of dynamic loads and anchoring conditions.

Baldwin Park Sun Shade: Minnesota State Fair

A shade structure engineered for one of the country's largest annual events, where crowd loads, wind exposure, and compressed construction schedules all factor into the design. Reigstad's work on exterior structural elements informs this kind of open-air challenge.

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

An institutional project with architectural ambition. The structural design supporting a building whose form is as much a statement as its function. See how Reigstad approaches structural steel engineering on landmark projects.

Steel framework assembly and concrete structural elements under construction at urban building site with cranes and workers

Our Approach

Creative Problem-Solving Is the Method

Gordon Reigstad founded this firm in 1979 with the belief that structural engineering is best practiced by people who treat it as a design discipline. Not a checklist. Special projects are where that philosophy shows most clearly. There's no standard detail for an ice palace. There's no code table for a tensioned shade canopy at a state fair. What there is: 47 years of experience, a team built around creative problem-solving, and the kind of on-site construction exposure that turns engineering education into genuine judgment. If your project doesn't fit a standard category, contact our team or explore our concrete construction work for a sense of the range we bring to unconventional structural challenges.

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A look at our work

Urban construction site with steel framework, concrete tower, and tower crane under evening sky with city skyline.

Cable-supported tension fabric structures with steel masts at an amusement park, showing engineered canopy systems and roller

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