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Quickly Construct Concrete Pad Footings with FASTBAG

At a recent seminar I attended I was introduced to the Fab-Form product called FASTBAG. This product is brilliantly simple….a textile bag you can fill with concrete and reinforcing bars to take the place of the wood formwork traditionally utilized to construct pad footings. The bags come in multiple sizes designed to replace standard pad [...]

EVstudio Has the Building Professionals You Need

At any given time we have a large number of projects under construction. During the construction phase of a project questions invariably arise. That is the nature of the work, whether new, or more frequently, renovation work. At times those questions are best answered by a specialist even though architects have a broad depth of [...]

Killeen, Texas Adopts 2009 I-Codes

    The Killeen City Council has voted to adopt the 2009 International Code Council (ICC) Building Codes. The new codes will become effective April 1, 2011, however the 2008 National Electric Code will remain in effect. In addition to the ICC codes Killeen has published their local amendments to the Codes which take precedence [...]

AIA Colorado Design Conference Blog

The American Institute of Architects Colorado Chapter has launched a blog to promote the annual practice and design conference. Nicolle tells me “This year for the AIA Colorado Design Conference, we have started a blog.  We are going to use the blog to post articles about our keynote speakers and other fun stuff to promote [...]

EVstudio.info Included in RIBA Stakeholder Forum Presentation

I was contacted a few weeks ago by Su Butcher of the Architects Twitter League and Barefoot & Gilles Architects about the possibility of including EVstudio.info in her presentation to the RIBA Stakeholder Forum. We traded several emails about the successes and difficulties of creating this sort of website to reach out to potential contacts. [...]

EVstudio.info Receives Over 1,000 Hits in a Single Day

EVstudio.info is a unique source for daily information on architecture, planning and engineering produced by a firm in Colorado and Texas.

One Year of EVstudio.info – The Daily Blog About Architecture and Architects

Today we’re celebrating one year of EVstudio.info. On May 30, 2009 we started our near daily blog about architecture and what we do as architects. Most blogs about architecture are primarily reviews of other people’s work. We wanted to fill a different hole and talk about the basics to demystify architecture and answer a lot [...]

EVstudio Offering Free Instruction on Blogging to Members of the Mailing List

EVstudio’s blog at evstudio.info has been up and running for a year. To celebrate the milestone we’re going to offer any of the members of our mailing list a free lesson on blogging and what we’ve learned. A blog might be the right choice for: Driving traffic to your business website Talking about the construction [...]

50,000 Hits on EVstudio.info, Providing the Architecture Information That People are Searching For

I just noticed that we passed the 50,000 hit milestone a couple days back. We are now consistently the 9th ranked blog under a google search for “architect blog” and we seem to turn up on all sorts of searches. When we started the blog last May we had hoped that we could answer a [...]

Links from EVstudio.info to Your Website

With the increasing number of link requests that we get from Consultants, Clients, Engineers, Contractors and Builders, I thought it would be useful to explain how to get EVstudio.info to link to your website. First, an important distinction, generally speaking our evstudio.us domain does not provide links unless we have an interest in the company. [...]

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