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When To Hire a Structural Engineer over a Civil Engineer

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If you are undertaking a new construction project, renovating a home extensively, or carrying out other construction works, you may need to hire a civil engineer, structural engineer, or both. Because of how involved some of these projects can be, it is best to get in touch with a civil engineering firm in St.

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10 Best Criteria to know the Estimation of Your Dream House

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10 Best Criteria to Know the Estimation of Your Dream House. Before you start building your house, you should estimate some important elements like affordability, land availability, legal formalities, location, house construction cost, and time till you put the final brick in the wall. CARPET AREA + WALL AREA = BUILT UP AREA.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building // CO Architects

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The Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) provides space for integrated, interprofessional medical and healthcare education, training and research. Martin Associates – Structural Engineer – KGM Architectural Lighting – Lighting – CO Architects – Design Architect & Architect of Record.

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Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

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The Walker Hall project involved transforming a "vacant, seismically unsafe building" on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern California , just west of Sacramento. The history of the original building and the hot, dry climate of California's Central Valley inform the new architecture," the studio said. "The

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Studio Gang unites Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts buildings with folded concrete canopy

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The Jeanne Gang -led studio, united eight previous structures, that have been built for the museum complex since it opened in 1937, with the concrete canopy. AMFA marks the latest example of Studio Gang's ongoing commitment to the creative reuse of existing buildings," said the architecture studio. "To The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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Boston itself inspired the color: from the historic brick buildings to the institutions for whom red is a signature color – like Harvard and MIT – to the dramatic sunsets and foliage to the Red Sox." The building is the first and last building you see arriving and departing at the airport," AECOM principal Terry Rookard told Dezeen.

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