Tackling Wooden Ceiling Cloud Craftsmanship Challenges
On the Moorhead Recreation Center project, The rolling, off-set ceiling system consists of custom-made 4 X 8 wooden panels running...
Porcelain Brick Quality Challenges
On the Moorhead Recreation Center project, one of our biggest quality challenges was constructing the intricate, custom foliage...
Creative Old-School Craftsmanship Maintains Design Intent
Parikh Stevens Architects Principal Harsh Parikh: “We designed Vida with eight different skin materials to create a visually interesting...
Creative Sequencing for Skin- Installation Maximizes Quality
Pinkard could not rely on the traditional ground-based scaffolding system for skin installation because the lot-line construction and...
First-of-Its-Kind Approach to Dry-In
With “normal” mid-rise construction, a building has to be completely dried-in before electrical rough-ins can begin. This means that the...
Innovative “Pod” Sequencing Improves Quality with Lower Cost
While working on VIDA Senior Living, Instead of building-out floor by floor, Pinkard broke each floor into three areas, or pods (A, B,...
Solving Lot-Line Construction and a Tiny Building Footprint
Vida Affordable Housing was bordered tightly on three sides by busy city thoroughfares and by private homes on the fourth side. The Vida...