Your home is typically your largest financial investment. Yet most homeowners would not know who designed the structure of their home. They might know the architect and/or their builder’s name. In most cases, the homeowner assumes that the architect or builder has hired a competent structural engineer to design the structure of their home. So, …
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When you think of a building foundation, many people imagine a chunk of concrete buried down in the ground to support a column or wall and most of the time this is accurate. A foundation can consist of a shallow footing similar to the one imagined above or it could consist of a series of …
By Sybil Fix, Special to The Post and Courier, Feb 6 2016 2:00 pm Lynn and Todd Lillibridge have always felt inspired by contemporary houses with wide-open spaces that draw in the light and make one with the outside world. From the mountains of Colorado to Lake Michigan, they have built such homes and loved …
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The Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission’s new skatepark is a 25 acre site located at 1549 Oceanic Street and overlooks the Ashley River marshes. Tobias & West, LLC designed the concrete structure for the skate park, retaining walls and the 2,000 square foot elevated park office building structure. This site is challenging because it …
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Have you ever wondered how contractors are able to bend larger reinforcing bars (or “rebar”) on-site? Usually the rebar will be bent by a steel fabricator in accordance with the structural drawings and delivered to the construction job site. But sometimes the contractor needs to bend the rebar on-site for specific conditions and if it …