DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As the semester has progressed on through design iterations, presentations, and cd sets, it finally is approaching "go time". This week is a full send on shop drawings and material counts / orders so we may start fabrication in the wood shop as soon as this weekend or next week. Currently something that I have [...]
With the shop now in order and the bulk of the formwork complete, the Community Build Studio is ready to take on some of the prefabrication of the framing elements. While David continues to make the necessary arrangements for our permitting and subsequent groundbreaking, the framing members will start to be cut and organized to [...]
As we come back from Fall Break we've hit some snags on our pavilion project: waiting for permits. Now even though we can't yet break ground that doesn't mean we twiddle our thumbs waiting for something to get done. On our first day back we had some crews put together some more sheets for permitting [...]
"Work smarter, not harder." Sounds like something my father or grandfather would tell me, gently chiding me for making something more complicated than it needs to be and then instructing me on a way to do it better, faster, more accurately - or giving me a better tool to do the job. That's another phrase [...]