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Specification and Design of Pre-engineered Metal Buildings (Part II)

By Hunter Wylie / July 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Specification and Design of Pre-engineered Metal Buildings (Part II)

In the first part of this article, we looked at the basics and dimensions of metal buildings for industrial settings. In this second part of the article, we explain the design criteria and specifications of pre-engineered metal buildings.

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Specification and Design of Pre-engineered Metal Buildings (Part I)

By Hunter Wylie / June 17, 2021 / Comments Off on Specification and Design of Pre-engineered Metal Buildings (Part I)

Pre-engineered metal buildings are common features in industrial settings. In fact, they have become common features in many types of construction from utilitarian sheds to keep out the elements to multi-story architectural buildings for just about any use. This is the first part of an article looking at specifying metal buildings for industrial settings.

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Helping Sawmills Manage Demand

By Hunter Wylie / June 17, 2021 / Comments Off on Helping Sawmills Manage Demand

Crow has helped customers save millions of dollars in capital expenses by re-purposing current facilities and equipment on site. If you’re in the lumber business, it’s hardly news that demand has been outstripping supply – largely due to a pandemic housing boom that few saw coming. With new home building reaching a 15-year high, demand for new building materials such as 2×4 lumber is through the roof.

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Plan management and execution

Why Risk Based Safety?

By Hunter Wylie / May 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Why Risk Based Safety?

Keep the risk low, keep employees safe, and keep operations up and running – which keeps the revenue flowing.

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Choosing the Right Partner

By Hunter Wylie / May 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Choosing the Right Partner

Choosing the right partners to support your project often determines the success of that project. What’s needed are vendors with subject matter expertise and a proven track record of success.

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Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

By Hunter Wylie / March 25, 2021 / Comments Off on Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Designing buildings to stand up to the elements requires detailed site analysis to determine weather patterns, climate, soil types, wind speed and directions, heat, path of the sun, and more. Solutions involving insulation, vapor barriers, and air barriers will vary radically depending on whether the site is in the cold and snowy north, the hot and humid south, or the arid desert.

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Freres Lumber Builds a New Breezeway

By Hunter Wylie / February 23, 2021 / Comments Off on Freres Lumber Builds a New Breezeway

Recently, Freres worked with Crow Engineering to design an open-sided structure using its MPP product. The aim of the project was to infill a space between two manufacturing buildings at the Freres Plant 3 mill in Mill City, OR.

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The Crow Engineering Chess Tournament

By Hunter Wylie / January 17, 2021 / Comments Off on The Crow Engineering Chess Tournament

Two players. One chess board. One move yields a countermove – attack and defend, strike and counterstrike. Warring adversaries fight it out by the rules of an ancient game. There’s a quiet but palpable tension in the room. Then a single word breaks the silence: “checkmate.”
Learn how Crow Engineering brought chess into the office.

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Sawmill assessment brings big ROI

By Hunter Wylie / January 17, 2021 / Comments Off on Sawmill assessment brings big ROI

At Crow Engineering, relationships with customers last for years. One company – a long-term customer – recently engaged us to review ways to increase the productivity of its lumber manufacturing process. To assess and identify improvement opportunities, we conducted an efficiency study of the company’s log infeed and breakdown systems.

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Modernizing a Mill with 3D

By Hunter Wylie / December 8, 2020 / Comments Off on Modernizing a Mill with 3D

Recently, Crow Engineering completed an engineering design to replace a raw material infeed conveyor at a building products mill. The mill was connected to a mining operation with a single conveyor to deliver feedstock. The conveyor was built in 1962 and worn out. Any interruption or problems with this conveyor caused both mining and mill production to stop. The owner hired Crow to evaluate the situation and investigate possible solutions to replace, upgrade, or rebuild the raw material feed line.

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