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Hand Colored Rendering of Soda Creek Home Completed
We have been working with KCH Properties on a new home design in Soda Creek and have recently completed the schematic drawings that will be used in the marketing efforts. The home boasts over 7,000 square feet of open living space, 5 bedroom suites a...
EV Studio to work with HistoriCorps
EV Studio has been selected to work with HistoriCorps, a new public-private partnership organization formed earlier this year. Elicia Ratajczyk of the Evergreen office met yesterday with HistoriCorps director, Jonas Landes and performed a Site Survey...
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 rei...
Foundation Wall Height Design Considerations for Residential Garages
There are many ways that openings like doors and windows come into consideration with respect to how we, at EVstudio, design foundation walls. More specifically, there are special criteria that go into a foundation wall design for residential garag...
Jeffco Class A Flat Roof, Dry Deck Requirement
As part of Colorado's dry climate, local fire districts have some authority over the county's oversite in enforcing our adopted building codes and have special requirements depending on the fire district for which a building is being built. For examp...
Overflow Drains and Scuppers – Roof Drainage
Flat roofs that do not drain over the roof edge and roofs that have parapet walls must utilize roof drains to get the water off the roof. Where you have roof drains you are also required to have overflow drains. The 2006 International Residential Cod...

