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Conventional
2x Home This home involved a highly-custom gravity and lateral system involving steel frames and heavily-nailed shear walls due to its wind exposure. It utilized manfactured roof and floor trusses, 2x stud walls, and a concrete foundation system containing a cistern for roof drainage. |
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Stud-Framed Residence
With Straw Bales This residence sits on hill between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming. It is fully sheathed and has straw bales for extra energy efficiency. |
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Timber-Framed Home The home shown is actually more of a hybrid timber frame, in that it utilized 2x stud walls along with many elements of timber frames such as hardwood pegs and concealed fasteners where needed. It is three stories tall and well exposed to the wind. We've done classic timber frames, too, where perimeter knee-braced columns are shown to the interior, and hammer-beam trusses are used to span the rooms of a home (as shown below). |
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Timber-Framed Components These timber hammer-beam trusses were used to span long distances, supporting heavy roof snow and dead loads, in Jackson, Wyoming. The system was optimized (by the owner years ago) using computer modeling to have the ideal truss configuration for heavy timbers, and mortise and tenon joinery. The system, once chosen for the longest span, was used throughout the home. |
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Insulated
Concrete Form
(ICF) Home The photo to the left shows the foundation system, or frost wall, below a one story ICF home. Still to come is the interior slab on grade, the main ICF walls, and the roof system. |
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Helical Piers The location of the above home (over poor soils) called for a unique foundation system. The photo shows helical piers being installed using a skidsteer. The piers consist of one or two helices on the lead section, followed by extensions that are attached to the top. The piers are sized and spaced for the loading from above, and they are drilled to a depth that provides sufficient restraint for the helices. |
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Multi-Story Hotel This hotel was designed and constructed for building efficiency. We worked with a team of architects and contractors to analyze and detail it for best construction. In this region it meant 2x stud walls, manufactured I-joists, and manufactured roof trusses, all sheathed with OSB for rigidity. Also, we worked with design efficiency in mind, providing hand-drawn details to save the owner money. |