One of the many services EVstudio provides is structural engineering home inspections for home sellers or buyers. A structural engineer is typically requested to inspect a home if the general home inspector observes a crack or movement in a home. General home inspectors are not licensed structural engineers and cannot provide recommendations on the cause […]
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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 you can design just about anything with SIPs, it is
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The Montessori School of Evergreen project is an addition to the existing Middle School building in Marshdale. The addition gives the school a gymnasium, a stage, a music room, and more storage. The building committee was very concerned about sustainable materials and that is reflected in many decisions in the design. We worked with a
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We frequently have projects and clients who are concerned with the idea of building during a Colorado winter. Snow, ice, cold temperatures and frozen ground can all make building more difficult. With that being said, in the Front Range cities, like the Denver metro, we can generally build year round without many weather delays. As
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Our American Water Building in Texas is moving along quite nicely. The framing is up and so is some of the structural steel. Soon they will be placing the roof trusses. EVstudio is providing construction administration services on this project. Through reviewing shop drawings, product submittals and doing regular construction observation, we are able to
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The International Building Code provides several routes for designing buildings with more than one occupancy. Building owners who don’t want to separate occupancies with fire separations have to employ one of these. For buildings with a large primary occupancy and a small accessory occupancy, the answer may be section 508.2 – Accessory Occupancies. An accessory
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Today’s Revit tip helps ease a common frustrating task…relocating lost levels which you know exist, but for whatever reason have left the visible area of your current view. Often in new elevations and / or sections, levels that you wish to include can be hidden way off in the fringes of the drawing area, and locating them can mean stretching your
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We have designed several homes that feature ICF construction for foundations. This home is currently being built high above Idaho Springs, Colorado. In this case, ICF (Insulated Concrete Form) is only being used for the walk-out basement. They offer great thermal performance and streamline construction with the forms serving double duty of insulation and a
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Do you own or operate a building with a small chilled water system? Are you currently part of a design team for a project that has a small chilled water system which provides chilled water in the design? If a small chilled water system isn’t designed properly it can result in uncontrollable swings in chilled
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Waterloo Swimming is a 30,000 square foot enclosed training and teaching swimming facility. The construction is a clear span pre-engineered metal frame structure spanning over 104 feet. The exterior is concrete masonry units in the pool area with a metal stud,insulation and gypsum board wall assembly in the offices and support spaces. This project type
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I just completed a job that involved placing a new roof top mechanical unit at an existing commercial building. The building was located in Louisville Colorado and was for an expanding local organic bakery. After receiving the as built structural plans for the building, the sizes of the steel roof joists, steel beams and columns
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I have been using Blackpoint for a little over a three months and I have to say it has been pretty exciting. From watching the home builder demonstrate how, with a push of a few buttons, the software automatically pieces together a unique set of options to produce a set of architectural plans for a
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