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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. Type of Structure. When a building collapses, you need the input of both a civil engineer and a structural engineer.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. Strategic window sizes were used to help make the building energy-efficient Beyond helping to finance the project, Foundation Communities has pledged to pay the energy bills for the building.

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Chuckanut Bay Rugby by Graham Baba Architects

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The DeWilde Rugby and Polo Fields have been home to Chuckanut Bay Rugby since 1973, and was gifted to the club by the DeWilde Family Foundation in 2018. Many players from the club have gone on to represent the United States, the Seattle Seawolves, and have played professionally abroad.

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News: UPenn's Weitzman School of Design? announces 2023–24 McHarg Fellow and postdoctoral appointments

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She was previously a lecturer at the University of Virginia , where her work through the Global South Humanities Lab earned recognition from the Graham Foundation. This year’s fellow, Emma Mendel, comes to the Center with a research critical focus on the role water has in shaping the built environment.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said. Two stone bases serve as the foundation for the pavilions that house the living areas.

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Atherton Pavilions by Feldman Architecture

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The Atherton pavilions consist of two accessory structures that are richly detailed and intimately connected to the landscape. The pavilions are delicately placed amidst the landscape of redwoods and other mature trees, blending in with the softscape and helping make the transition between garden and structure as seamless as possible.

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Deborah Berke Partners revamps modernist law centre at Harvard University

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Additional social spaces were also incorporated "The original modernist structure became outmoded with the changing needs of libraries and law pedagogy alike," said the firm. "As New York-based Deborah Berke Partners was tapped to design an update that met the centre's contemporary needs, which included more meeting rooms and social spaces.