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Waste Farmers Event Hosted by E.A.S.+Y

Elicia Ratajczyk of EVstudio is proud to invite everyone to attend a free presentation on April 15th (next Thursday) at 8am at the Bergen Park Fire House for Evergreen Businesses and community by the founder of Waste Farmers, hosted by Evergreen’s Alliance for Sustainability (EAS+Y). EAS+Y aims to facilitate a discussion between Waste Farmers, EDS [...]

Retail Buildings on Clear Creek Road in Killeen Texas

We recently completed the construction documents for the Retail Buildings on Clear Creek Road in Killeen, Texas. The complex currently contains two medical office buildings and has spaces for several future medical office buildings and a daycare. Our challenge was to create a series of buildings that reflected the best aspects of the buildings on [...]

Does IBC Allow Stairway Exception on Private Stairways

Does the IBC allow the old UBC 3306 (c) Exception of 8″ max rise & 9″ min run, for  “private stairways serving an occupancy load of less than 10?The design situation is a small retail store (Lubbock, Texas), owner access only, to a second story storage loft…Would appreciate your wisdom – Richard
Richard, [...]

Clear Creek Road Project Reaches Milestone

The Clear Creek Road Mixed-Use Development project in Killeen, Texas has reached a significant milestone this week.  After almost two years of planning, re-zoning, utility infrastructure realignment, and design revisions, this project is ready for the construction of Phase I to begin.  Application for construction permits will be made by the end of this week.
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Grand Opening of Habitat for Humanity ReStore

We are proud to announce the Grand Opening of the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Evergreen this coming Friday, January 22nd. EVstudio was the Architect and Engineer of record for the Evergreen Mercantile building as well as the TI for the ReStore itself. Come on out for the ribbon cutting and help support this important local [...]

Evergreen Mercantile Openings Cut Through Double T’s and Framed Out

The Evergreen Mercantile Building is a conversion of the former BMC building in Evergreen, Colorado. The main level and upper floor deck are precast concrete T’s. In order to make the building work for retail applications, we have cut openings through the majority of the T’s and run the structural calculations in order to continue [...]

LEED Project Team Formation is an Important First Step in any LEED Certification Project

The first step in preparing for the LEED Certification process on a building project is the formation of the LEED Project Team. Integrated design is one of the most important sustainability strategies and a good project team will become the key to an integrated, efficient, cost-effective and ultimately successful sustainable design and LEED Certification project. [...]

Facelift of the Evergreen Mercantile Begins to Take Shape

The facelift of the former BMC Building in Bergen Park is beginning to take shape and will soon completely transform the building into the new Evergreen Mercantile. EVstudio designed the exterior facade remodel and engineered new storefront openings in the existing double “T” wall construction. The new windows have been installed on the second level [...]

New Openings in Existing Concrete Double T Wall at Evergreen Mercantile

On August 18, the removal of the 2″ concrete flanges of the concrete double T wall began.  EVstudio engineered the front wall to allow for the new openings and provided details to adequately brace the structure with the remaining wall lengths.  When construction is completed you won’t be able to tell this was once a [...]

Updates on Framing at the Diamond Building on Castle Court in Evergreen

I went over to the Diamond Building for a structural inspection and took a couple progress photos.

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