Lyric Theatre

The Lyric Theatre is a former vaudeville and movie theater constructed in 1914. In early 2014 Birmingham Landmarks announced that $7.4 million had been raised, making it possible to begin interior renovations. BHATE Geosciences was retained to provide an evaluation of the foundations and structural condition of this historic structure. Early steel-reinforced concrete construction systems used square twisted bars. Plain round and square bars were typically used in reinforced concrete buildings built before 1920. The Lyric Theatre structural roof frame is primarily constructed of riveted connections that still maintain a high-level integrity after nearly 90 years. The chemical testing of a structural steel member indicated that the steel used was hot rolled low carbon steel.