Another wonderful year is coming to a close, and our San Luis Obispo office celebrated in style by hosting an Open House replete with food, drinks, and music, and capped it off with an epic gingerbread house competition. Too many outstanding entries to list here, but we did want to give a special shout-out to A&V's very own Chelsie Taylor for runner-up, and Andrew & Stephanie Martin for taking home the top spot!
Big congratulations to Oakland's Victor Ramos , Santa Barbara's Mounir El-Koussa , and San Luis Obispo's Andrew Martin , Ryan Monie, & Chelsie Taylor for passing their Professional Engineering Licensure exams! Really proud of all the work they put...
Its a snow day for our engineers in the Bend Office. Pull a chair closer to the fire and put your feet up!!
Check out the new Identity , a 7-story, 100 unit housing project in Reno, Nevada!
Our own Jordan Denio and Tung Ng in the Tahoe office are helping...
Ashley & Vance is kicking off structural design of the new elementary school for South Lane School District in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The design of the 80,000 sq. ft., 2-story school is a metaphor for growth, combining local heritage and natural habitat within a modern learning environment. The architectural form pays homage to Cottage Grove’s innovative covered bridge structures and to the evolution of its early industries. Our structural design includes CMU shear walls, open web steel trusses and heavy timber frames. We...
Evan Dahl is a project engineer in our Belligham, WA office. He recently traveled to Axim, Ghana as a member of the Northwest Washington Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. The primary intent of the trip was to monitor a Urine Diversion Dehydration Toilet (UDDT) which was designed by the chapter. Construction on the toilet was completed in early 2014. The team also examined a couple of other UDDTs in the community and talked to several community members concerning the importance of sanitation and the viability of UDDTs. Click...
Welbrook Senior Living is an assisted living facility currently under construction in Van Nuys. Ashley & Vance provided the structural engineering of the building which consists of a subterranean parking, two levels of concrete two-way decks, and 4 levels of steel framing using Conxtech connection system for a total of 105,000 sq.ft and 132 units. The Conxtech system allows for rapid assembly of the framing system, greatly reducing the construction schedule.
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The LIV Seattle off-campus student housing and retail facility is a 7-story, 56-unit building, located in Seattle's U District. Ashley & Vance provided structural engineering consisting of post tension concrete slabs for the lower floors, understory parking, and 5 stories of wood framing around an interior courtyard. Other features include a green roof deck, 3 commercial units, a gym, study hall, and recreation room at street level. The project was designed by Caron Architecture , built by...
Hotel Serra in San Luis Obispo is taking shape! These photos are from our site visit this morning. Serra Hotel and Resorts maintains a website to keep the community updated on construction activity. You can visit it here for more information.
Last weekend was the Ashley & Vance Summer Party Extravaganza and we had an amazing time! Employees and their families came to San Luis Obispo from all of our offices starting on Friday. We squeezed in a bike ride that morning before going wine tasting at Baileyana or trap shooting at the San Luis Obispo Sportsmen's Association , and then had a game night in the office. Saturday started off with a trip to...