October 29, 2018 - EVstudio

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

Building Technology, LEED & Sustainability, Lighting / EVstudio AEP

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 Dark Skies , we took a look at the Dark […]

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Hire a Real Structural Engineer When Buying a Home

3 Comments / Real Estate, Structural Engineering / Sean O'Hara

One of my wife’s long time friends is moving to Denver and he asked that I, as an architect, come take a look at the house that they were buying. Going from Phoenix to Denver there are quite a few differences in how houses are built and designed along with different structural issues due to

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Filters in Revit for Structural Framing Plans

BIM, Engineering, Multifamily, Residential, Software, Structural Engineering / EVstudio AEP

As all architects and engineers using Revit know, the out of box settings are rarely what you need to produce a set of drawings for review. Namely, visual representation of modeled elements often does not match up with your intent. In order to bypass this, one must adjust detail level, enlist the use of the

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The Exciting Future of Self-Healing Materials – Part 2

Building Technology, Civil Engineering, Sustainability / EVstudio AEP

Last month, I discussed the exciting potential of self-healing concrete to reduce global carbon emission and reduce the enormous cost of replacing cracked concrete. Today, I will discuss another innovation to a material that is almost as ubiquitous as concrete, asphalt! None other than the same researches that are innovating self-healing concrete at Delft University

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Construction Cost Per Square Foot for College Laboratories

Construction, Cost, Educational, Medical / Dean Dalvit

Our posts on construction cost data per square foot for various project types are so popular, that I will continue updating them more frequently as this is fairly time sensitive data. Please note the date on the blog posts so you know that you are viewing the most current information. Also, click HERE for other

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Liberty Hill City Administration Building – Construction

Architect, Architecture, Civic, Commercial, Commercial Office, Texas / EVstudio AEP

Construction started last month on the new City of Liberty Hill administration building which is being building on an infill lot located in the old downtown area of Liberty Hill. The foundation slab is complete and the CMU elevator shaft is about halfway finished. Framing and parking lot paving will be starting within the next

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Architecture Planning Multifamily render

9-Story Mixed-Use Tower

Architect, Architectural process, Multifamily, Residential / Sean O'Hara

This is a quick sketch that we recently put together for a proposed 9-story mixed-use building. It has a podium of parking on the bottom level with multifamily housing above. At the beginning of projects we use a variety of tools to create concepts to discuss with our clients, from the ultra-high-tech to these quick

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Asphalt or Plastic Roadways?

Building Technology, Civil Engineering, Sustainability / EVstudio AEP

Coming from Oklahoma, I know bad roads. Our largely expansive soils and icy winters cause our asphalt pavements to look like swiss cheese. Driving a moped is out of the question. All around the country our roads are in major need of repair and very little has been done to increase the lifespan or decrease

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Colorado Homebuilding Academy

Affordable Housing, Community Involvement, Construction, Denver, Educational, Engineering, Multifamily, News, Real Estate, Research, Residential, Schools / Michael Carr

If you’ve been keeping up on the news in Colorado’s residential sector, you’ve probably noticed that the state (and most of the nation) is experiencing a housing shortage. In 2018 alone, the Denver Post has reported that Denver may have a deficit of up to 32,000 homes and apartments this year, how builders can’t keep

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