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Making Your Assets Work for You
Scott Maloney has always enjoyed the opportunity to work with governments, helping them think smarter about their assets is a true passion. The intelligence that is brought to the table from professionals and staff, who truly comprehend how buildings operate is fascinating. Understanding how people function and interact in a building, along with how trends […]
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Maintaining Your Building Envelope
The commercialization of electric lighting, elevators, steel framing in buildings, and the increase in white collar workers, brought the dawn of the skyscraper in the early 1900s. Skyscapers continued to rise in cities across the country until the Great Depression, with a large boom seen again after the WWII in 1950s-60s. These tall buildings were […]
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Digging Deep – Understanding the Impacts of Poor Soil
Over the last few years we have had some challenging projects sites to work with. Reclaimed land, below a flood plain, and areas with high moisture content in the soil. Clearly understanding the soil condition at a project site is extremely important before getting too far into the building design process. It is even more […]
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Spalling Reports
K2M Design offers concrete spall reporting for both commercial and residential clients throughout the Florida Keys and South Florida. Spalling is a small fragment or chip, especially in concrete, which has broken up, flaked, or become pitted. This is a result of a combination of poor installation, construction materials and environmental factors that stress the […]
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