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One Step Further: How Engineering Elevated Design for The Artise

With mounting project challenges, including an occupancy change 85% into design, Scott Erickson--DCI Principal for The Artise in Bellevue, Washington--needed to leverage his performance based design experience and structural know-how to come up with innovative solutions that pushed the envelope.

Learn how he did it in DCI's latest video, just below.

Video by Erin Spaulding, DCI Engineers. Thumbnail photo by Ben Benschneider.

Meet The Artise Project Team



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Scott D. Erickson

Principal, Seattle

PE, SE

I love being able to use my creativity to help the design team develop architecturally pleasing, cost-efficient building solutions.”
Artise Structure Mag

"Necessity is the Mother of Invention" by Scott Erickson

Take a deeper dive into the structural solutions behind The Artise in the November 2024 issue of STRUCTURE Magazine.

photos by Kyle Loria

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High-Rise & Performance Based Design Engineers

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About the author

Erin Spaulding

Erin Spaulding, Associate, Communications Manager | Erin comes from a journalism background with an emphasis in feature writing. She enjoys capturing the unique details of a story and is a firm believer that every person (and every project, for that matter) has a story to tell. Erin loves running, fly fishing and learning about unique spaces. Back in Michigan, she owns a little studio condo that's been readapted from an asylum and turned into a mixed-use residential building.

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