July 11, 2019

EVstudio Contracted for Value Engineered Structural Revision to Custom Mountain Home

EVstudio was recently asked to value engineer a proposed revision to the foundation of a custom home in Evergreen Colorado that we had previously provided structural design services for. This particular home was originally designed for a slab on grade lower level floor with an approximately 3’-0” deep frost wall foundation. Sometime after final design […]

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Understanding Long-Term Losses in Post-Tension Tendons

As a structural designer, I started my career working on post-tension structures.  Those of you who have been with us for some time know that those can include things as small as a single tennis or basketball court as well as some of the tallest buildings on the Denver skyline. Half-inch diameter post-tension tendons are

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Coordination is never someone else’s job.

Whether you’re an architect or engineer, proper coordination is one of the key ingredients of a successful project. Often the assumption made is that every discipline is coordinating with every other discipline’s work, when in fact, the unfortunate reality is that every discipline is coordinating with their own work if you’re lucky. To further complicate

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