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View From Atlanta Container House (video)

Posted by admin on Dec 2, 2011 in Featured, Projects, Shipping Container Building Projects | 0 comments

This is a video which shows the view from our container house in Atlanta.  It’s a really awesome view of downtown Atlanta.

Shipping Container House, Connecticut Update

Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2011 in Featured, Projects, Shipping Container Building Projects | 12 comments

Here’s some pictures taken by the client for the shipping container house in New Haven, CT:                                                                                               The house is now complete – see our latest...

Continued Informaton on the Connecticut Container House

Posted by admin on Nov 15, 2011 in Featured, Projects, Shipping Container Building Projects, Shipping Container Buildings | 0 comments

Here’s the latest article from the Hartford Courant: ” Most of the two- and three-family houses lining Vernon Street inNew Haven were built in the early 1900s and look like those constructed during the same era in any other city in Connecticut: spacious front porches, flat or pitched roofs and bay windows. So architecturally, the house now going up on a vacant lot at 56 Vernon will have plenty of curb appeal, blending perfectly into the neighborhood — with one notable exception: It is about as far as a builder can get from...

Floor Slab Settlement

Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2011 in Featured, Structural Damage | 0 comments

This house looked like it was OK, but a closer examination and some experience shows a severe problem.

Hotel Design, Florida

Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2011 in Commercial/Institutional Projects, Projects | 0 comments

Right now we are doing the structural design for a Hampton Inn in Nokomis, Florida.  To aid in the design, we are drawing it in 3 dimensions.  This allows us to see what we are building and better coordinate with out client and the architect.  Here’s where we are right now:

Fire Damaged Trusses

Posted by admin on Oct 16, 2011 in Structural Damage | 0 comments

This is a fairly simple fire damage job we were called to do the fire was concentrated above the ceiling and damaged the top chords of the trusses.  The repair is easy – scab new 2×4′s onto the damaged chords.

Cold Formed Steel Design is no Fun

Posted by admin on Oct 8, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Atlanta Shipping Container House 2.0 – A Link To Great Photos

Posted by admin on Oct 6, 2011 in Shipping Container Building Projects | 0 comments

This website has a really good set of photos of the second container house in Atlanta – we did the structural design of it, and these photos are absolutely stunning.

3d for Residential Structural Design

Posted by admin on Oct 1, 2011 in Featured, Projects, Residential Structures | 0 comments

This is one of my more recent projects, the architect was dencity Design in Atlanta.  It’s a very difficult house – look at the cantilevers:                             This kind of strucutre is difficult to engineer because you have to visualize a very complex 3 shape from a 2 drawing.  To make things easier, the Architect, Staffan Svenson, sent me a rendering done in Google Sketchup so I could visualize what was happening.  I then built a 3 model in RAM...

Marvin Windows, Atlanta, GA

Posted by admin on Sep 21, 2011 in Commercial/Institutional Projects, Projects, Uncategorized | 0 comments

This project was an older retail store that was built in the 1950′s, and had been modified a number of times.  We had to analyze the floor system to determine if it was capable of handling the increased loads from the floor displays, which meant we had to do extensive measuring in order to model the building (no drawings were available).  We also did design work on the fascia of the building, some of the modifications over the years were rather ill advised.