March 27, 2018 - Page 2 of 3

What Information is Required to have a Heating and Cooling Calculation Generated?

Building Code, Building Technology, Mechanical Engineering / EVstudio AEP

There are many factors in how much cooling or heating a building will require to maintain a set temperature. Many times, building owners and architects are not aware of the information required to get the mechanical calculations started. Most seasoned architects have a good idea of what they need to provide to the mechanical engineer, […]

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Hometown South – A Structural Engineer View

Commercial, Construction, Engineering, Residential / EVstudio AEP

Hometown South is a new community from Century Communities, located in south Arvada, that EVstudio is happy to be a part of. The development consists of apartment complexes with retail space and a variety of townhomes. The apartments are broken into two types of buildings, 3-story apartments and 2-story apartments over retail space. Both types

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Restaurant Floor Plans Free Initial Consultation

5 Comments / Commercial, Restaurant / Dean Dalvit

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 of the codes and regulations that go along with it.

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Balancing Post-Tension

Building Technology, Construction, Cost, Engineering, Structural Engineering / EVstudio AEP

Last month, I wrote a quick post about understanding the sources of long-term losses with post-tension tendons. One of the key points to take away from that is that the more post-tension material you use, the less effective each individual tendon becomes. However, this is something that seems to be frequently overlooked. As engineers, we

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Straight Shaft Drilled Concrete Pier Foundation

4 Comments / Building Technology, Construction, Engineering / Jim Houlette

Straight Shaft Drilled Concrete Piers are constructed by drilling a hole into the ground and filling it with concrete and reinforcing. The diameter of the pier varies depending on the load the pier must support.

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Complimentary Density Study and Initial Design Consultation

Architectural process, EVstudio Information, Planning / Dean Dalvit

As a value added service to all of our clients, past, present and future, EVstudio offers a complementary Density Study and Design Consultation for potential development sites. We do this in order to learn about the project objectives and understand the site and the scope in a more intimate way. This is often the time

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Purdue’s large scale testing facility

Building Technology, Schools / Jim Houlette

Purdue has a large scale civil engineering testing facility with over 50.000sqft of testing area indoors. The floor is 14ft thick and supported by 5ft diameter piers reaching a 45ft depth! Capable of a 1,000,000lb load with only .1″ of deflection. The building was built several years ago and allows researchers to test large scale

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When Do You Absolutely Have to Hire an Architect in Colorado?

Architect, Commercial, Residential / Sean O'Hara

At EVstudio we are licensed architects and we firmly believe that you should have a licensed architect design your project regardless of building type or project size. By hiring a licensed architect you’re getting access to the required education, work experience and testing that an architect must complete. You’ll know that the architect has the

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Dickson Mountain Home Evergreen Colorado

Custom Homes, Sidebar Photoblog / EVstudio AEP

This mountain home has fire resistant and low maintenance exteriors with an interior design approach akin to the woody craftsmanship that is reminiscent of the East Coast where the Dickson’s are from. The project took about 8-9 months to construct and went very smoothly. That is due in large part to both the professional management of

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Getting active about passive solar

Building Technology, LEED & Sustainability / Dean Dalvit

It’s time to talk about a technology that has been around since the origins of man. Actually, it predates man because most of the animal and even plant kingdom has been using this technology for millenia. What is it? Passive Solar. The term “solar” means most directly, “sun”. There is some confusion out there when

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EVstudio Chosen for Central Texas Civic Center Renovation Project

Civic, Hospitality, Remodels, Small Projects, Texas / EVstudio AEP

EVstudio is proud to announce that we have recently been named the architectural firm for the City of Copperas Cove’s civic center renovation / remodel project. The project includes updating the commercial kitchen to better serve the needs of larger events and converting obsolete office spaces into a conference center. The project also includes upgrades

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Sustainable Communities Should Consider Car Sharing

Denver, LEED & Sustainability / Dean Dalvit

It’s not a new idea, but it’s an idea whose time has come. In our urban environments, it is getting increasingly more difficult, not to mention expensive, to own a car. In cities such as New York and Boston, people have left their vehicles long ago for the advantage of public transportation. But what options

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