Structural Engineering for Snow-Damaged Canopies and Covered Walkways
Heavy snow can bend a canopy in ways you won’t spot from the sidewalk. A covered walkway may look fine while its beams and joints tell a different story. Around Colorado Springs, snow loads climb with elevation, so a cover near the foothills can carry far more weight than one at a lower site. That’s […]
Detention Pond Design: The Site Feature That Quietly Shapes Your Whole Project
Most people see a detention pond as a hole that holds water. It does far more than that. Good detention pond design controls where water goes during a storm, but it also shapes your usable land, your budget and even how your site looks. In Colorado Springs, where a summer storm can dump water fast, […]
Structural Engineering Considerations for Buildings Planned in Expansive Soil Areas
The ground under a building is supposed to stay put. On expansive soil, it doesn’t. These soils swell when they get wet and shrink when they dry, so the dirt under a slab can rise and fall by inches as the seasons change. Structural engineering is what keeps a building stable while the ground beneath […]