Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Written by: carmstrong
This holiday season, SBSA’s staff constructed defective gingerbread houses for clients. The defects in these gingerbread houses included structural issues, civil grading problems, building envelope issues, and some electrical problems. SBSA has posted a gallery of the gingerbread houses. (more…)
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Written by: carmstrong
By: Megan Danner, Senior Forensic Specialist
The lego ladies looking tough.
Builders scrambled during the last 10 minutes of the Plastic Fantastic competition to swap out LEGOs for that one perfect piece, or find a place to put odd LEGOs that didn’t fit anywhere. For SBSA’s two teams, it was a blur of pink and black as Team Beauvallon and team The Others raced to finish their fantastic plastic creations. Within moments, towers were standing tall, roofs were completed, and one car made its way onto the lego street.
Habitat for Humanity hosted the Plastic Fantastic LEGO Build competition on October 9, 2010, as a fundraiser to benefit their Women Build Home that is currently under construction on the west side of Denver for future first-time homeowner, Christie Halliburton. For this first-ever event, SBSA entered two teams at the professional level, a category reserved for design firms, giving SBSA’s ladies a chance to display their engineering and architecture acumen. Each team in the professional category was allowed 90 minutes to build a Denver landmark of their choosing using 1,000 Legos. All legos had to be used in the design, which made for some down to the wire heavy duty structural reinforcement for Team Beauvallon.