Dean Dalvit

First Finished photos of Red Fox Run Home

by Dean Dalvit April 28, 2013

While we haven’t yet had a chance to get professional photos of this project yet, I wanted to share with our followers of the mountain modern home series of posts the Red Fox Run project that was recently completed in Evergreen. The Materials palette for [...]

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The Escalating Cost of Escalators

by Dean Dalvit April 24, 2013

Often in larger scale commercial developments, vertical circulation is handled by escalators in addition to elevators in order to move large volumes of people from one space to another. Escalators are complex truss structures with a remarkable mechanism of chained treads that move in sync [...]

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EVstudio can help you with your Manual J and Manual D calculations

by Dean Dalvit April 24, 2013

Building jurisdictions across the country are in the process of adopting versions of the International Building Codes, and in both the 2006 and 2009 IBC, there are new requirements for providing heating and cooling loads calculated by using an approved calculation such as the ACCA Manual J. [...]

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Feng Shui Elements in Home Design

by Dean Dalvit April 24, 2013

With a lot of the design that we do here at EVstudio, we are often asked about Feng Shui and how it may apply to the design of a residential home. For the uninitiated, Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese strategy to align the energies [...]

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How To Read Metric Rebar Marks on Steel Reinforcing

by Dean Dalvit April 24, 2013

In order to identify the basic information about the rebar that is delivered to a jobsite, it is important to know how to read the mill markings that are stamped on every bar. This is especially critical to ensuring that your materials match up with [...]

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Freewheel .DWF Viewer

by Dean Dalvit April 24, 2013

The latest .DWF viewer is here, and you don’t have to download anything to your computer to view .DWF files anymore! Autodesk Freewheel will allow you to open and view .DWF files in your web browser. You will not have the ability to mark up [...]

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Great Resource for Solar PV and Hydronic Information

by Dean Dalvit April 15, 2013

In a time where it seems like everybody and their brother is now installing solar PV and hot water systems, and companies are coming and going like the dot-com flashes of the 90′s, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find reputable companies for Solar [...]

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SIPs Design Guidelines to Reduce Cost

by Dean Dalvit April 14, 2013

We just recently completed another SIPs design for a single family home in Colorado. Along the way, we came across some very useful information on how to value design the home so that we were able to achieve the best cost on the SIPs package. While [...]

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It’s Okay to be a Little Shifty

by Dean Dalvit February 20, 2013

This post is for all of those framers who diligently adhered to a structural framing plan to the letter and wound up with more backout framing than they knew what to do with once the plumber and mechanical contractor had their way with the joists. [...]

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Gabion Walls can be used for Landscape Design as well as Retaining Wall Design

by Dean Dalvit February 20, 2013

One type of site wall system that is very common in Europe, and only beginning to gain popular acceptance in the US is a Gabion Wall System. Essentially, a Gabion wall is a wire cage that is formed to contain loose rocks as a mass. [...]

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Controlling Western Sun Glare with Electrochromic Windows at NREL

by Dean Dalvit February 20, 2013

We recently had the pleasure of touring the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Research Support Facility and one of the many features we saw that contributed to their net zero building was Electrochromic Windows. To be used in applications where there are great views (and as [...]

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The Heat is on…

by Dean Dalvit February 20, 2013

I want to address a topic that comes up in every programming interview that very few people give much thought to…Indoor heating and air conditioning… The professional term HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and pretty much sums up your indoor air climate. For [...]

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