
On Friday, we had the chance to view the recently completed Rawley home renovation in Denver's Washington Park neighborhood. The project is a great example of a home renovation that leaves the existing shell of the home intact while making careful revisions to provide a modern home feel...

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...

EVstudio crossed an important threshold this evening when EVstudio.info received over 1,000 hits in a single day. The online magazine has received ever increasing interest since our update in August 2009 and nearly doubled our traffic in the last three months...

What started out as a fairly typicalremodel andaddition toan oldermountain home for the young-at-heart couple Eleanor Kulin and Mike Sullivan, turned into quite an experience...

Elicia Ratajczyk of EV Studio participated in the organization of the Colorado local Natural Talent Design Competition again this year, with the Colorado chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Emerging Green Builders (EGB)...

There are a number of flat roofing systems available, some of which include EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer), and Modbit (Modified Bitumen). While each has its advantages and disadvantages, these are two of the more common systems used in residential and commercial applications today...

PT Slab-on-grade, concrete slab not shown to see tendons A Post Tension (PT) slab-on-grade (SOG) foundation is based on a typical raft SOG foundation with one major difference; high strength steel tendons pulled into tension...

The City and County of Denver is a municipality that requires contractors to have a license to pull a permit. The license types are Class A, B, C and D...

Denver requires that all equipment used in commercial restaurant kitchens, including prefabricated equipment must meet commercial design standards. All floor-mounted equipment must be placed on casters or minimum 6" high sanitary legs and is subject to final field approval...

In a traditional design/bid/build project delivery the architect hires the engineers and the engineering drawings are part of the bid package. With smaller tenant finish projects we are now seeing a scenario where the engineering drawings are being provided design/build by the contractor...

The excavation for the Hughes Residence in Pinon Soleil in Castle Rock is largely completed. It is a very complex excavation due to the slope of the hill coupled with the large number of floor elevations...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) specifies the minimum criteria for Accessible Doors in New Construction Accessible Buildings...









