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From the drawing board
Notes on shed design, structural detailing and documentation for intensive livestock projects.
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Why shed variants — not shed counts — should drive your design budget
On a multi-shed site, the real design effort scales with the number of shed variants, not the number of sheds. Here's how variant-based scoping keeps documentation costs honest.
Building design Multi-shed projects -
Automating the boring half of steel detailing in Revit
Purpose-built Revit tooling can take the repetitive work out of shed steel detailing — purlins, girts, brackets and bolts — while keeping a human on every judgement call.
Revit Steel detailing Automation -
The poultry shed brief: what your designer needs before drawing line one
A good brief shortens every stage that follows. Here's the information that lets a shed designer give you an accurate proposal — and what happens when it's missing.
Building design Process