Hurricane Ties
One element of properly creating load path connections is installing a hurricane tie. Hurricane ties secure the roof connections to the ceiling joists and/or exterior walls which keeps the roof… Read More »
Category: Structural Engineering
Construction Mockups
In our opinion, successful projects are built on careful planning and effective communication. A powerful in successful projects is construction mockups. Think of a mockup a prototype of a project… Read More »
Pre-Cast Concrete Plank
One residential feature that homeowners like to utilize is a garage over a finished basement space. In order to achieve this, the garage floor needs to be built with pre-cast… Read More »
Five-Story Multi-Family Building Benefits from Modular Wood Panels
Construction continues on the five-story, wood-framed apartment building we recently designed. Modular wood wall panels, 4×2 wood floor trusses, and 4×2 wood roof trusses facilitated a speedy framing process. The… Read More »
Boys and Girls Club Penacook Community Center
Winners never quit, and quitters never win, right?! Mr. Chris Emond of the Boys and Girls Club of Central New Hampshire is clearly not a quitter. The old Penacook Community… Read More »
Enscape Renderings
Team Engineering is excited to share that we have increased our capabilities in 3D rendering using Enscape. We have previously offered exterior architectural renderings that we produced using Revit. We… Read More »
VEIL HOUSE IN BELMONT MA BY STUDIO J. JIH
There is a certain style that the homes of New England often trend toward. Through material availability, local living conditions, and many other factors, these homes have a commonality… Read More »
Energy Charette
A charette is an intense period of planning or design effort. Don’t let the obscure vocabulary scare you off. It really just means a collaborative design process. A group brainstorming… Read More »
Five-Story Multi-Family Building Benefits from Modular Wood Panels
Construction of a five-story, multi-family, wood-framed building is underway in Nashua. We are the structural engineers of record and designed the building using largely traditional wood framing. We did, however,… Read More »
Simpson Strong-Rod ATS in mid-rise wood building
Due to its cost-effectiveness, material-use efficiency, sustainability, and availability of labor and materials, wood light-frame construction is the go-to framing choice for single-family or multifamily homes and commercial buildings. Multi-story… Read More »