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 »
Category: Structural Engineering
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 »
Farmer’s Porch Dube’s General Contracting
Team Engineering completed the architectural and structural design of a farmer’s porch addition to a colonial home. The porch construction was completed by Dube’s General Contracting, a frequent collaborator with… Read More »
HAIRPIN HOUSE IN BOSTON MA BY STUDIO J. JIH
We had the pleasure to team with Studio J. Jih on this residential renovation in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts. Jeremy’s team of designers is incredibly amazing at conceptualizing modern… Read More »
STRUCTURAL STEEL SHAPES IN RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION
Steel beams, columns, and braces are needed in residential construction when wood members cannot support high loads and/or constraining geometry. For example, steel beams are often required to achieve a… Read More »
Software Integration for Efficient Structural Design
Team has been fortunate to work on two great low-rise multi-family apartment projects in the last year in southern New Hampshire. These are large projects that allowed us to bolster… Read More »
CLABORN LAKE HOME UPDATE
This Moultonborough lake home has really taken shape since our last update in February (Click here to read that blog). It’s amazing to see a design come from paper drawings… Read More »
Soil Bearing Capacity & How It Effects Your Structure
The bearing capacity of a soil is the allowable load that the soil can support before yielding (i.e. sinking/moving). When constructing buildings or houses, it is important for the structural… Read More »
Cape Roof Framing
The cape-style home is seen across New England and is popular among first-time home buyers and smaller families due to its quaint size. Many find themselves, however, eventually looking for… Read More »