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The Benefits of Designing a Home During the Winter
The Benefits of Designing a Home During the Winter Winter is here! The winter months are full of so much seasonal fun due to the beautiful snowfall and warm holiday festivities. There is so much to enjoy, that it can seem like a less than ideal time to start working...
How to Design & Build a Greenhouse
Having a backyard greenhouse is a dream for many home gardeners. It’s the perfect environment to grow everything from flowers to vegetables, and allows you to extend the growing season to nearly year-round. However, a backyard greenhouse often stays a dream for many...
Is It Legal to Live in a Shipping Container?
If you’ve ever dreamed of leaving leases behind and downsizing your life, you’ve probably considered a shipping container home. They’re modular, customizable, and can be scaled up or down to fit your unique needs. However, once you start looking more closely into it,...
Who Makes Blueprints for Houses and Custom Homes?
Building your dream home is no small feat. It involves architects, engineers, designers, general contractors, and more to see it realized. However, before you start lining up workers and materials to build your new home, you need a plan for them to work from!...
What Goes into Each Structural Engineering Project
Structural engineering projects have a lot going on. From their inception to their completion, there are countless plans, people, and factors that need to work together perfectly to produce the intended result. Typically, structures will require a structural analysis...
The 7 Components of Green & Sustainable Building Design
According to the EPA, there are 7 main aspects on which green buildings are judged to measure their “greenness”—aka sustainability. Being environmentally friendly with your building project can happen in many ways. Some are obvious, like saving energy, while others...
Building Comparison: Modular vs Mobile Homes
What Is the Difference Between a Modular and a Mobile Home? While the terms are often used interchangeably, modular and mobile homes have many important differences. What is a Mobile Home? A mobile home—also known as a manufactured home—is a pre-constructed structure...
How Hiring a Structural Engineer Can Help Design with Construction Sites Closed
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these crazy times! For many of us, life has been put on pause while we work through the COVID-19 pandemic together. Did you know that construction sites being closed could actually shorten the process of crafting...
Hire a Residential Structural Engineer to Maximize Your Home’s Sustainability
If you’re building a custom home, there’s no reason to hold back. This is your dream palace, your sanctuary, the place you share with family. It needs to be perfect and that includes making it perfectly sustainable. If you want to maximize sustainability in your...
3 Benefits of a Shipping Container Home
The history of the shipping container is an interesting one. While shipping containers pioneered early global trading, their inventors did not anticipate the wasted containers left after trade imbalances. For example, location X ships 100 containers to location Y, but...
Unique Building Projects: Design a Tree House
You might want a custom home for year-round living, a little weekend escape in the woods, or a place for the kids to hang out in a fun space all their own. No matter your reasons, building a treehouse can be a great opportunity to expand your imagination and have some...
How Building with Tire Bales Insulates Your Custom Home
There are several ways to create a custom home. As our planet pushes for more sustainable ways of life, green building materials and practices have expanded. From abandoned shipping containers to the soil below us, using available materials that would otherwise sit...