Jim is our Director of Structural Engineering and an essential piece of the EVstudio team. He joined EVstudio in June of 2009.  Under his leadership the Structural Department has doubled in size providing quality engineering for architects, production builders, post tension contractors, SIP  suppliers, remodelers, homeowners and a variety of other clients.

At EVstudio, its a different story. We're actually hiring and creating jobs. A few of our recent additions:

• The Copperas Cove, Texas office added Derrick Kately to the staff as an experienced architectural designer.
• EVstudio Texas has also added Chris Neiman as a summer intern to utilize his computer graphics skills.
• The Colorado offices are in the final stages of adding another structural engineer to the staff.
• We're currently advertising for an architect in Colorado with Bentley MicroStation experience.

Its an exciting time at EVstudio where we're both expanding the services we can offer and adding members to our team to provide value for our clients.

• Existing lighting conditions evaluation
• Energy usage and code analysis
• Interior and exterior lighting layouts
• Energy code calculations and ComCheck compliance forms
• LEED calculations and documentation for lighting
• Architectural and decorative lighting fixture plans
• Architectural and decorative lighting fixture specifications
• Lamping plans and lamp specifications
• Controls plans and specifications
• Custom fixture designs
• Daylighting analysis
• Final drawings for bid or construction
• Construction phase services including site visits and project meetings, submittal review, and coordination with team members

Our Interior Design group provides a full complement of services that marry architecture and interiors so your project is a cohesive, integrated whole. Our love of interiors means that your project looks and functions as well inside as out.

The EVstudio Interior Design group has delivered vivid, innovative solutions for healthcare, corporate, hospitality, residential, retail, and civic clients.  We offer services including but not limited to:

• Programming:  property evaluation, facility surveys, client questionnaires, user group meetings
• Conceptual Design:  preliminary plans, elevations, sections, material selections, budgets for review
• Design Development and Construction Documents:  plans, elevations, sections, interior systems, and material specifications that may be used for bid, cost estimating, or construction
• Bid and Construction:  contractor selection assistance, bid negotiation, shop drawings and submittal review, site visits, and consultant coordination
• LEED documentation for interiors
• Custom Cabinets and Trim: casework and millwork design and specification
• Finishes:  specification of floor, ceiling and wall treatments and patterns
• Furnishings: selection, specification, and installation coordination of furniture, window treatments, signage, accessories and art

We also offer comprehensive lighting design services for interior and exterior lighting.
Looking for a service that’s not on the list?  Contact us. We’ll be happy to point you in the right direction.

EVstudio’s Director of Interiors, Lisa Barter, studied interior architecture in Texas, and brings extensive experience in interior design, architecture and lighting design to each project.  Hailing from a family of doctors and engineers, she enjoys marrying art and science by giving equal emphasis to the creative and technical aspects of design.  With over fifteen years of design experience, she is committed to helping you achieve your design goals while enjoying the process. Lisa is licensed as an architect, certified as an interior designer, is a LEED accredited professional, and also heads up EVstudio’s Lighting Design group.

Matt comes to us after three years at Barker Rinker Seacat where he was both a project architect and an associate. He brings a great deal of experience in large commercial projects including recreation centers, libraries, community centers, schools, office and industrial projects. Matt has worked with both Dean and Sean in his career and we're glad that we were finally able to make him a part of the EVstudio team.

Matt will bring additional stregth to EVstudio in several core areas. He will continue to improve our Building Information Modeling (BIM). At BRS, Matt completed a number of large projects utilizing Revit as a schematic design tool, a construction document software and a method to reduce conflicts during construction. He also has extensive construction administration experience and has managed large projects in distant locations. Matt is an experienced project manager and will be taking many projects through the entire process from conception to completion.

In a very interesting year for the construction industry we have a lot to be thankful for. We've managed to keep busy, we've avoided layoffs, we've won some awards and we've added some great new staff. 2009 has seen EVstudio officially open its engineering department and complete the transaction to bring Gene Dane and the Copperas Cove, Texas office into the company. We've also seen some great projects get built and many of our clients have continued leasing or selling the property that we designed. We've also seen EVstudio.info go from a website that garnered about 150 visits a day to over 1,000 visitors a day now.

Thanks again for helping to make 2009 a great year and we're looking forward to 2010!

The slide and notes concerning EVS can be found at 27/51.

Su's blog Just Practising and her twitter activities are focused on discussion of what good architects do.

The RIBA Stakeholder Forum was held in London on October 27, 2009.

Please continue to read and let us know if you have ideas for more topics. We're currently putting together a new series on architecture tips for recreation projects, architectural software on the Mac and several other exciting developments on the horizon for EVstudio.

In addition to knowing the structural capabilities of materials in a building, understanding the logistics and process of construction is priceless for the success of an architect's relationship with a builder. The well rounded experience of the EVstudio team means that builders can count on a top quality set of builder friendly plans.

An example can be found in the set of plans for the Atwell residence and its decorative wood accent features.  Framers prefer, whenever possible to use standard angles, like 22.5, 30, 45, 60, and of course 90 degrees. Dean and I worked out this detail where I made the angle of the 6x6 brace pieces 30 degrees from the vertical wall. This is a fairly common architectural detail where this specification of a 30 degree angle cut can make the job of cutting multiple wood members, assembly and installation much easier for the tradesmen in the field while creating less waste. EVstudio always strives to provide a builder friendly set of plans.

EVstudio is proud to be a sponsor of the Evergreen Chorale's 2009-2010 Performance Season. This year the Chorale is performing Carousel, 150 Years of Holiday Music in Evergreen, Guys and Dolls, Take Me Home - Songs From Accross America and An Evening With Disney. Hope we see you at a show.

On a side note, when Sean worked at Semple Brown, he designed the lobby addition to the Center Stage building that the Chorale performs in. The building is fairly interesting, starting as a music camp, the original structure was built in 1924. There have been a number of additions, adding a larger stage, green rooms, restrooms and finally the larger lobby that is there today. The original building is almost completely enclosed.

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