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Fresh off of our annual end-of-summer extravaganza, we're reminded of just how blessed we are to have the team that we do. Spanning two days and replete with a wine tasting tour, a golf expedition, a softball game, a pool party, and a BBQ to cap it all off, what's not to love?! Check out the photos below and see if you can spot where on the Central Coast some of the festivities took place. Already looking forward to the next extravaganza...

We are proud to have been part of this great student housing project located at 4717 Brooklyn Street, Seattle WA. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the project and residents will be moving in very soon. Ashley & Vance Engineering provided structural engineering for this new 56 unit, 72,000 square foot building that involved post tension concrete design for the lower stories and 5 stories of wood framing. This was a challenging design that included a full height internal atrium courtyard, green roof, recreation room, below story parking, and commercial street...

Ashley & Vance is thrilled to welcome Bruce Jones, P.E. , to the firm! Our Santa Barbara team was so thrilled, in fact, that they gathered together to cook up some ribs in his honor. In addition to the good shared meat , they also found out that Bruce was born and raised in Santa Ynez, attended college at Cal Poly, SLO, spent the last few years working for the...

Construction is well under way on the retail portion of this impressive mixed-use project in the heart of downtown San Luis Obispo. Once completed, it will boast approximately 50,000 square feet of retail space, plus additional offices and residential units. Currently the project appears to be a blank dirt lot on either side of an existing brick building, but a closer inspection reveals over 80 drilled concrete caissons ranging from 24” to 30” in diameter, and plunging roughly 30 feet deep in some locations. Formwork is in place at the back of the project in preparation for the nearly 18-...