Tag Archive for ‘Structure’
Earthcore Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) Reviewed, Designed and Detailed by EVstudio Structural Engineering
EVstudio’s Structural Engineers are working with Earthcore SIPs LLC to provide high quality SIP walls, floors, roofs and foundation walls to meet every client’s need. EVstudio’s role will be to provide structural engineering services for each project, provide detailed shop drawings and provide engineering reports for all of Earthcore’s products.
Earthcore manufactures SIP walls, floors [...]
National Park Service Historic Train Relocation off to a Great Start
EVstudio attended the pre-construction meeting earlier this week and had our first chance to visit the train and observe the existing conditions. The plan is simple; prepare the new site and place tracks, set the temporary bridge using a steel frame adjacent to the existing bridge and use a flat bed train car to span [...]
Don’t Forget to Check your Sump Pit and Pump
Your home may or may not have a sump pit. If you have one be sure to check it every few months, especially when you may have heavy rain. Most people forget about the sump pit leaving them open to a good chance of major problems.
When checking your sump pit check for the following items:
Standing [...]
Helical Pier Foundations
Helical piers are typically used when repairing failed shallow foundations. The helical piers are a deep foundation system that can be placed alongside existing foundations with very little interference.
However, helical piers are also used for new construction as an alternative to typical straight shaft drilled piers. EVstudio recently designed a new foundation using helical piers [...]
Extreme Home Makeover Finally Complete
What started out as a fairly typical remodel and addition to an older mountain home for the young-at-heart couple Eleanor Kulin and Mike Sullivan, turned into quite an experience. Upon opening up the exterior walls, all kinds of things were discovered about the home, which was used as a rental for many years, as well as a habitat for [...]
Raft Slab-on-Grade Foundation
A Raft Slab-on-Grade foundation can be as simple as a 4” thick slab with no reinforcement and a shallow perimeter rib to an 8” thick slab heavily reinforced with deep ribs spaced roughly 10’o.c. The wide range of concrete thicknesses and reinforcement is a function of many things such as soil type, loads, exterior finishes, [...]
Silver Rock Manor – The Details of the Luxury Home Begin to Emerge
Jim Houlette from the EVstudio Denver Office and Elicia Ratajczyk from the Evergreen Office recently visited the construction site for the Silver Rock Manor near Evergreen, Colorado to discuss a framing issue with the contractor. With the bulk of the framing completed, the details of the luxury home are beginning to emerge. The rest of [...]
Structural Wood Framing Connectors from Simpson Strong-Tie and USP
Simpson or USP? Each company has a wide range of framing connectors that meets the needs of almost every type of wood connection you can think of. In addition, each company provides connectors for epoxy bonding, retrofitting, and other various products to create quick structural connections. In Colorado, Simpson and USP products are commonly used, [...]
Denver Colorado Structural Engineers Must Deal With Many Design Challenges
Structural Engineers in Denver, Colorado must design for many extreme conditions including swelling soils, snow loads, grades, winds and weather. Contact EVstudio 303.670.7242 for help.
Value Engineering of Slab-on-Grade Foundation
EVstudio Engineering just finished designing a typical slab-on-grade foundation for a 12,000 sq ft commercial building in Central Texas. Due to accessibility to plumbing below the slab the owner wanted to have a mildly reinforced slab in lieu of a post tension slab. Based on the geotechnical design parameters the foundation required 24″ deep ribs [...]
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