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Keeping the Night Sky Dark is a Necessity for Human and Environmental Sustainability

by Lisa Barter May 10, 2012

Second in a three part Dark Sky series “Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.” -Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Our Vanishing Night,” National Geographic magazine, November 2008 Last week in the first article of our three part series on [...]

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What is the difference between STC, CSTC and CAC?

by Bill Foster May 10, 2012

Ceilings have their own testing system (CAC) that is equivalent to wall ratings and more applicable to ceilings per the ASTM. Walls are rated using single pass tests to determine their STC rating because only 1 wall separates two rooms. This test isn’t really applicable to [...]

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Archived Historic Denver Building Codes

by Sean O'Hara May 9, 2012

While researching code regulations for a structure that we are remodeling, I came across the page holding all of the adopted building codes and amendments for the City and County of Denver. They date as far back as 1881 and are certainly an entertaining read. [...]

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This or That #2: Soffit vs. Eave

by Matt Svoboda May 9, 2012

These two architectural terms are often used interchangeably and it’s understandable since two people pointing out the soffits and eaves on a house, let’s say, may appear to pointing to the same thing. So what’s the difference? In this corner: an eave is the lowest [...]

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Civil Engineering with In-House Surveyor means Cost Savings

by DJ Zehnacker May 8, 2012

Being licensed as both professional engineers and professional land surveyors allows us to offer significant cost savings and drastically helps improve the efficiency of our projects. For example, when we do a site visit at the start of a project we are already thinking about [...]

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Got to Love Big Steel Beams

by Jim Houlette May 8, 2012

I recently revisited a custom home we designed in Evergreen. The architecture required a large cantilever of the roof framing. An awesome look! But it has it’s cost, a large steel beam. I love designing with steel and appreciated the size of this steel beam [...]

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The Six Components of Successful Daylighting Part II

by Anthony Ries May 6, 2012

Last week we talked about the first two components of successful daylighting. This week we follow up with the next two: Assess lighting needs for typical visual needs Use of apertures to create focus and mood These two components are somewhat advanced strategies the breathe [...]

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This or That #1: LEED accreditation vs. certification

by Matt Svoboda May 6, 2012

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and was developed by the US Green Building Council as a way to quantify environmentally friendly design in buildings and everywhere you go in our industry you hear about people and their projects becoming either accredited [...]

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Moment Frame – A Structural and Aesthetic Application

by Kacy Landsittel May 2, 2012

A shear wall design is a part of our structural construction documentation. It is common in residential or light commercial projects that this design utilizes the sheathing on the exterior walls. Sometimes the sheathing alone isn’t enough and a portion of the shear wall design [...]

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Revit Tip #23 – Linking a File to the Current View Only

by Anthony Ries May 2, 2012

At EVstudio we use Revit for just about everything. It doesn’t yet make coffee. We can only hope. However, we occasionally have a need to import and link AutoCAD or other vector and image files to our models. Because Revit builds one model and then [...]

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Restaurant Floor Plans Free Initial Consultation

by Dean Dalvit May 2, 2012

Evstudio has had the pleasure of designing a wide variety of restaurant, cafe, bar and similar projects and it has become a specialty within our greater body of commercial work. Designing a restaurant can be difficult business if you are not fully in tune with all [...]

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Denver Survey Requirements

by DJ Zehnacker May 2, 2012

With the recent department shifts and reorganizing at the City of Denver, one thing seems to be coming up quite frequently with residential remodels, pop-tops, and new construction projects—Survey requirements. In the past, an architect, homeowner, builder, or developer could often get by with an [...]

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