The Architectural Gift Guide – 2020 COVID Edition

We did it.  We reached the end of the year and the season of giving.  This holiday season we thought we would put together our top COVID gifts for friends and family.  Some of these items exist and some we only wish existed! You’re welcome. ONE. TOILET PAPER FORT PLANS Did you or a loved…

Project Spotlight: Lawless Brewery

Long time no blog…  Things have been a little hectic here at Hayne as we added a teeny tiny new member to the Hayne team family and temporarily lost Bianca to a more demanding boss… HAHA!  Soon she will be back in the office so why not restart our weekly updates… Lawless Brewery is well…

Hayne Road Trip!

Here@HAYNE we travel… safely of course! The Haynes took a road trip to Colorado in their new Ford truck to get out and enjoy some outdoors since the quarantine started back in March. Take a look below at some of the beauty they got to enjoy last week!              …

Counter Encounters: COVID-19 Edition Episode 2

Here at Hayne, we’ve been on deadlines for some of our commercial projects.  Submittals have been interesting, to say the least!  We thought we would share a couple of our experiences… Scene: Hayne Architects is trying to complete a project submittal for a commercial project at an undisclosed jurisdiction somewhere in the United States of…

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…

Tips & Tricks: Spline Length in Revit

Hello again! We hope you are staying safe as we continue through these quarantine times. Our office continues to work remote and we were recently asked to create a fire access plan with paths that were fluid, not linear, and calculate their lengths to show they meet code. The first thing I thought was “easy-peasy”…

Tips & Tricks: Calculating Minimum Plumbing Fixtures Required with REVIT

With a few commercial projects in development here at Hayne, we have been spending time reviewing the Building Code (thank you UpCodes!)  to calculate occupancy and minimum plumbing fixtures required.   When we worked in AutoCad this would be completed as a separate calculation, maybe in the floor plan file or in an excel file.  This…

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…