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Educational Occupancy Group as Defined in the International Building Code

Sean O'Hara — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:30:13 +0000

One of the first steps in any building project is evaluation of the appropriate occupancy group. This drives building size, building height, construction type, exiting and fire separations.

Educational Group E is the occupancy for buildings used by six or more people through 12th grade.

Religious educational work and religious auditoriums accessory to a place of worship and with less than 100 occupants are A-3 occupancies. If it has more than 100 occupants or is not accessory then it is E.

E is also the occupancy for day cares where there are more than five and less than one hundred children older than 2.5 years. If each classroom does not exit on grade or there are more than one hundred children or the children are less than 2.5 years old it is an I-4 occupancy. A 24 hour facility goes to group I-2.

Educational uses above the 12th grade are Type B, Business Group or type A-3, Assembly for lecture halls.

Our EVstudio Texas Office is Now Open and Providing Architecture and Planning Services in Central Texas

evstudio — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:29:05 +0000

EVstudio is proud to announce the addition of our EVstudio Texas office to the company. We have been a majority owner of 157 Architecture for the last two years during which we've worked to integrate our systems, procedures and technology. We've completed a number of successful projects with our people in the Texas office.

The addition of the office in Copperas Cove, Texas gives us access to another five team members for large projects along with an office in the growing market in Central Texas. We have quick access to Killeen, Harker Heights and Temple but we're also actively pursuing projects and clients in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio.

The primary focuses of the EVstudio Texas office are retail, medical, mixed use, education, master planning and military contracts. We can also do residential work from single family homes to large multifamily projects.

The focuses and philosophy of our existing offices in Denver and Evergreen Colorado remain the same. We'll continue to help our clients with projects large or small, commercial or residential, remodel or new construction, in state, out of state and international.

David Thermos, AIA Joins the EVstudio Team for Public and Private School Projects

evstudio — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:45:41 +0000

David Thermos, the owner of Legacy Architecture Studio, LLC has joined the EVstudio team as our School Architect. He'll be helping us pursue and complete public school, private school and higher education projects.

David has over 20 years of experience in project management, design and technical documentation of a variety of building types. During his career he has been involved with a public school projects, higher education projects and religious education projects along with performance spaces for music, theater and dance. While he was employed at Slaterpaull Architects he was the Project Architect for the $6.8 million St. Thomas More Evangelization Center Expansion and Renovation and the $26 million CSU Center for the Arts - Music/Theatre/Dance Relocation. (shown above).

EVstudio has already completed a number of these projects and it is a continuing area of emphasis for the firm. We're proud to be able to offer our clients an even stronger team.

School and Education Architecture is an Area of Emphasis for EVstudio

Sean O'Hara — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:12:03 +0000

EVstudio is a firm that designs for many building types. We believe that we are better architects because we practice many types of design and as a result we look carefully at each project and listen to our clients rather than applying a common solution. However, we do have some project types that we particularly enjoy and one of those is architecture for schools and educational facilities.

A recently completed project was the design of the multipurpose addition to the Montessori School of Evergreen. The building was a fairly simple addition, the real challenge was working with a committee to balance differing expectations and build consensus. We also had a very challenging site and budget constraints. The project was completed in December of 2008, the illustration is a board that we did for their fund raising efforts.

EVstudio also has experience with higher education and technical schools. We recently completed a design for the Ohio Center for Broadcasting, Colorado Campus. It is an 11,000 sf facility with classrooms, offices, studios and editing spaces. This was our first conceptual layout.

This is a picture of the children's handwash stations at Fisher Early Learning Center. We did a renovation of all of their classrooms and bathrooms to meet the needs of the teacher's working at the preschool and the children attending. This was a custom solution that we devised based on listening to the issue they were having with multiple children needing to wash their hands in limited space. We really enjoy working through the details.

In addition to this group EVstudio has recently worked with the Denver International School and the University of Denver on projects. We've also consulted with several schools on their master plans and given advice on projects that are several years out.

Education and schools have always been a real interest for me with both of my parents being teachers. Several years ago I earned a Master of Education degree in Instructional Technology and Design to help me better understand education and instruction. Prior to starting EVstudio I worked on a number of projects at Emory University and on the Denver School of the Arts.

If you need any additional information, even about a project that you are just starting to consider, please feel free to contact EVstudio.