Project Management

Mastering Retaining Wall Design for Project Success

Coordinating Responsibilities in SRW Projects On all projects involving soil retaining walls (SRWs), It is crucial to communicate the engineering design effectively within the scope of work, including structural design, civil design, and geotechnical design. Throughout the project, the owner’s representative must establish clear and distinct professional roles and responsibilities to prevent confusion regarding who […]

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Enterprise Architecture for Digital Transformation

Fast-growing firms with multiple departments face the same struggles: their departments can’t seem to align visions regarding people, processes, and technology. This causes inefficient processes, poor data visibility, and missed deadlines. Using enterprise architecture to undergo digital transformation is one way to combat that problem. What makes enterprise architecture so unique is that it focuses

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Abraham Meshesha, left, wearing a purple crew-neck sweater, smiles with his mentor, Adrian Vigil, right, wearing a light grey button up shirt. They are in the EVstudio office, in the architecture department.

Meet the Team: Abraham Meshesha – Architectural Project Management

September 2022 was the one-year mark of when I came to the United States. I’m originally from Ethiopia, which is where I received my degree as an architect. My journey to working with EVstudio was made possible by my academic journey. I’m currently a student at University of Denver (UD). I’m studying for my Masters

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Epionce - Concrete Tilt-up Building

Epionce

Another unique and beautiful concrete tilt building is found here at Epionce, a company dedicated to the manufacture of beauty-related products. Simple items were able to be added to the exterior facade to add intrigue and uniqueness to the elevations facing the streetside. We were able to successfully manage semi-truck access around the building with

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The Value of a Dedicated Project Manager

Why Have A Project Manager? In every type of engineering or design outside of building construction the position of Project Manager is omnipresent, yet in the process of design for building construction it is rarely seen. Typically the architect assumes that role, yet not all architects are well-suited to that role, nor even trained for

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Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control

Too often people use the terms Quality Assurance and Quality Control, commonly abbreviated QA/QC, interchangeably when they are, in practice, quite distinct aspects of the architectural/engineering process. By definition: Quality Assurance: the maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process

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