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According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the U.S. faces a shortage of 7 million affordable homes and rentals. And the project team behind Timberview VIII, an eight-story, affordable housing development, believes our industry can help change that number by introducing a sustainable and innovative material option – mass timber. Next week, attendees of the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland will get a firsthand look at this milestone project; but you can check it out right now by clicking our feature short film, “The Good Project.” And be sure to check out our last video where DCI Principal, Shirley Chalupa, PE, SE, walked us through the engineering decisions behind Timberview VIII, along with our project partners’ channels for their individual takes on this amazing project. https://lnkd.in/gnmQachX The Timberview VIII Project Team: Owner - Curtis Rystadt Structural Engineers - DCI Engineers Architect - Access Architecture General Contractor - Truebeck Construction Mass Timber Installer - Carpentry Plus, Inc. Mass Timber Supplier - Kalesnikoff #DCIEngineers #TheGoodProject #MassTimber #PortlandMassTimber #AffordableHousing #TimberviewVIII #Portland #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineer #DCIMassTimber Ethan Martin Adam Jongeward, PE SE Justin Fenton Video editing by DCI's Communication Manager, Erin Spaulding.

Exciting developments on Rainey Street! Check out the latest update on Paseo, delivering Fall 2025. #LVCollective #Paseo #RaineySt #AustinRealEstate #RealEstateDeveloper

On Wednesday, DCI’s Structural Sustainability Specialist Jessica Martinez, PE will take part in the virtual panel discussion, “Pathways to Reducing Embodied Carbon” from noon-1pm PST. Details and registration information are available here: https://lnkd.in/ebtJVARQ #DCIEngineers #DCISustainability #Sustainability #SustainableDesign #EmbodiedCarbon #LCA #LifeCycleAssessment Turner Construction Company, IMEG formerly Rushing

Engineering takes innovative, analytical and problem-solving capabilities. To do this work, you’ve got to be determined, yet flexible; detail-oriented, yet big-pictured; and above all, wicked smart. That is why we’re celebrating the women behind this historically male-dominated career path – the ones showing there’s room for everyone at the table to roll up their sleeves, sharpen their pencils and help make our built environment a reality. For International Women in Engineering Day, Sunday, June 23, we celebrate them, us and all who will be; because ‘engineer’ translates to ‘doer’ – and we’ve got the ladies to prove that. #DCIEngineers #INWED25 #Engineering #DCIisMe #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineers #WomenInEngineering

The project team behind LA’s largest homeless housing project gathered to cut the ceremonial ribbon this past Wednesday, June 19, signaling the opening of Weingart Towers – a 19-story, 278-unit structure in LA’s “skid row” neighborhood. This is just one of two towers for the massive project, which features common areas, dog runs, a computer lab, gym and music/art rooms. DCI’s Manuel Aldaco Lopez, Associate Principal, and Salma Syed, PE, Project Manager, were in attendance, along with several project team members and representatives from The Weingart Center Association. “This is not just a building,” noted Weingart Center Association president and CEO, Kevin Murray to the LA Daily News. “This is about people, about giving people dignity and respect.” https://lnkd.in/giaQtMZi #DCIEngineers #DCIDesign #DCILosAngeles #HomelessHousing #AffordableHousing #MultiFamily #WeingartCenterAssociation Suzanne Clemmer WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION INC

Last week, DCI’s marketing team took home a Reign Award for best Marketing Campaign from SMPS Seattle (Society for Marketing Professional Services). The winning entry, the Puzzlemania Challenge, was an internal wellness activity that invited all of DCI’s 20 offices to complete a puzzle. With three different puzzle sizes custom designed with the words, “Unity, Community, Connection” (300-piece for smaller offices, 500- for our midsize locations and 1,000 pieces for our largest staffed offices), the Challenge encouraged group participation with a prize for the fastest completed puzzle in their respective categories. It was a HUGE hit! And last week’s award was a testament to the group effort involved between DCI’s Marketing team and Wellness Committee – not only in bringing about this company-wide activity but to the collaborative spirit of the Challenge itself! #DCIEngineers #DCIMarketing #SMPS #SMPSSeattle #MarketingAwards #ProfessionalServicesMarketing #ReignAwards2024 #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineer #AECIndustry Cheers to DCI's marketing team: Amy Pugh, Erin Spaulding, Jordyn (Prince) McCoy, Brooke Giordano, Jessica Congdon, CPSM, Brett Bean, Leo Brine, Andrea Thielen and Katie Klindworth. Photo credit: Francis Zera

We’re halfway through the year, which means we can share that DCI has earned its 2024 compliance badge for the SE 2050 Commitment. If you haven’t been following the journey, we’re aiming to reduce embodied carbon in all our structures by the year 2050. Sound impossible? We invite you to learn more and join us in our sustainability efforts for a brighter, more energy efficient future. https://lnkd.in/gJZA-qjX #DCIEngineers #DCISustainability #SE2050 #Sustainability #SustainableDesign #StructuralEngineer #StructuralEngineering #EmbodiedCarbon Roger Heeringa, Jessica Martinez, PE, Ethan Martin, Arizona Dabrusin, PE

DCI’s multi-story warehouse project in Chicago is making its rounds, and that includes the most recent edition of Modern Steel Construction magazine. Authors Roger Heeringa, DCI Principal in Charge of Sustainability, and Jessica Martinez, PE, DCI Sustainability Specialist, help summarize how steel is playing a crucial role in the sustainable development of future warehouse designs. https://lnkd.in/gBM3NZWK #DCIEngineers #DCIDesign #DCISustainability #Sustainability #SustainableDesign #Warehouse #DistributionCenter #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineer Project Team: The Walsh Group - Walsh Construction & Archer Western, Ware Malcomb, Lyndon Steel Company LLC, and Nucor Corporation

DCI’s Daynen Clouse, EIT and Benjamin Ericson recently joined the Montana Mass Timber Rising 2024 Idaho Washington Border Tour, traveling around the area to see local Mass Timber projects – including DCI’s own Blockhouse Life in Spokane’s Perry District. Thanks, MMW Architects, for the great traveling tour! #DCIEngineers #DCIisMe #DCIMassTimber #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineer #AECIndustry #MassTimber #MontanaMassTimberRising

Affirmed Housing Group put together this video documenting the Grand Opening of their new affordable/supportive housing development Vitalia. Vitalia is a six-story, mixed-use residential building with 2,300-sf of commercial space on the first floor and five levels of apartments above. The building’s 79 apartment units will go towards housing Low-income and formerly homeless people and provide them with support services. The project was put together by Affirmed Housing Group and Architect Van Meter William Pollack, LLP of San Francisco. DCI Engineers is proud to have contributed to such a transformative project that will doubtlessly serve the community it’s in for decades to come. https://lnkd.in/g_df89Wb #DCIEngineers #DCIDesign #AffordableHousing #SupportiveHousing #MultiFamily #StructuralEngineering #StructuralEngineer #Vitalia #GrandOpening Sandra Biddulph, PE, SE, Suzanne Clemmer, David Hsu, Shannon Murphy