New Year, Same Sh*t, Better Us? Hayne Office Goals for 2024

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, of what, is an empty desk the a sign? Space for different “clutter”. One. Better Drawing Storage Despite our best efforts to go digital, we are still paper hoarders and the plan sets pile up. We currently stack plans on any open surface or…

Office Time!

Here at Hayne, we are moving back to a modified work schedule in the office and we’ve identified some key changes we’ve made to keep us COVID19 safe.  The changes below are based on the California Department of Public Health CAL OSHA publication for recommendations for offices. Educate Put up educational flyers explaining new office…

Here@HAYNE We Work Remote!

Times have changed and the #stayhome movement is still running strong. With trying to keep everyone safe we here@HAYNE have started working remote but are still pushing forward! So for this week’s post we wanted to share what our “offices” look like for each of us right now. We are all trying to get through…

“Back to School” Shopping List

Hello friends! So it is back to school for many people (I can tell with the increase in traffic in the morning..) and although we did not have summer off (#keepwishing) we thought we would use this as the theme for our post today. Everyone is getting their shopping done and so we want to…

Office Organization

January. It is the first month of the new year and that means its time to set goals and plan for what’s ahead. Here in our office, after our office purge, we decided to organize and set up a system for the active projects. We are still working on updating, upgrading and organizing our digital…

Here@HAYNE we Vibe again!

Our Castle Pines project is progressing forward!! If you missed our intro, click recap to check it out. Now that we moved into Design Development we have our awesome Interior designers looking inside the buildings to create vibes for our clients. This will help them get a better understanding of material choices and color schemes…

The Counter Encounter, Episode 2

Here we are! Back with at the City for what we think is a simple over the counter check to receive a permit to a building that clearly has a garage.. or what we think is clear..   Does this garage exist? Does it not? I guess we have to wait and see for the…

REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 5 – Typical Walls, Roofs, Floors and Ceilings

We’re baaaaaaaaaaccccccccckkkkkkkk!! After a brief hiatus, when our office was on project deadline overload, we are going to continue setting up our Revit Project Template.  The bare bones of the project template is complete, and has been utilized for a new project we are working on in Toluca Lake (stay tuned).  As expected there were…

REVIT Best Practices – Setting up a Project Template Part 2 – Annotation Text & Symbols

Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination!  Last week we looked at line types and line weights.  This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to…

REVIT Best Practices – Creating a Project Template Part 1 – Origin and Line weights

Last week was all about mental preparation.  This week we will focus on the most frustrating REVIT graphic that I always forget to adjust when starting a new project… LINE WEIGHTS! Ok.  Let’s dive right in.   Now SAVE your template!  Let’s take a breather…  Next time we will look at adjusting our text and…