Your Home Team
A guide for Understanding Your Design and Construction Team Some people find the home building process stressful and overwhelming. Our advice, look at what the pros are doing. Developers rely on a team to get their projects moving forward and off the ground. Nothing is more important than surrounding yourself with a great team. Let’s […]
How it Works: Flat Roofs
A “flat roof” is actually a “low sloping roof” and the finish material will determine how low you can go. Low slope roofs have a pitch of 2:12 (2 inches of drop over 12 inches horizontal) or less. Low slope roofs use membranes and metals as apposed to shingles to provide water protection. Most shingle […]
3D Printed Construction
Let’s visualize for a moment the complexity of our current construction practice. Architects and engineers specify and design buildings with thousands of components, intersections, and relationships to be made between them. The contractors are then faced with the logistical challenge of mobilizing those components, assembling them onsite, and coordinating the different trades to complete the […]
Sustainable Wood Framing
Wood framing (type V construction) is one of the most common building typologies especially in the residential construction industry. Most homes in the U.S. use wood framing for the primary structure. In many cases this means 2×4 or 2×6 studs at 16 inches on center with batt insulation between and plywood sheathing on the exterior. […]