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This See-Through California Home Magically Hangs Above a Creek Bed

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The remodel retains 50 percent of the existing wood structure, inserting a steel frame beneath the original floors and anchoring the home to the rocky hillsides—thus allowing us to remove supporting columns from within the creek bed.

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Schematic Design - Developing a Project Budget

Matt Fajkus Architecture

When starting a remodel or new construction project, an important early step is developing your budget to set realistic expectations and avoid surprises midway through the design process. We recommend that a general contractor be engaged for pre-construction services at the end of schematic design to develop a hard cost budget.

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Ballard Food Bank, Seattle Building

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General Contractor: Wilcox Construction Inc. Structural Engineer: Lund Opsahl. Civil Engineer: KPFF. Mechanical Engineer: Holmberg Mechanical. Electrical Engineer: AWA Electrical Consultants Inc. Ballard Remodel Residence. Owner’s Representative: Spectrum Development Solutions.

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Dreyfuss + Blackford Rehabilitate the 1950s SMUD Headquarters Building

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Alterations and remodels over the years resulted in a dingy workspace unsuited for current and future generations of staff. Contractor Roebbelen Contracting, Inc. 600 Q Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95811 Ron Migliori, PE; (916) 443-0303; rmigliori@bbse.com Civil Engineer Morton & Pitalo, Inc. Consultants.

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Architectural Graphic Standards | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

The ball really falls when the structural engineer gets the CAD file from the architect and they just scrub items and add “stuff.” I should know, I am a structural engineer. I love the look of ghosted existing conditions on a remodel or reno project. The end user of our work is the contractor.

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Ultimate Guide: Architecture Marketing and Digital Marketing for Architects

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Good old Yellow Pages is already online and about 60 million people use this search engine a month. Kudzu Service geared specifically towards contractors and homeowner service Ez Local Local listing service List of websites to register your architecture company. How to find an honest design contractor? Yellow Pages Exactly!