All articles May 3, 2026 4:30:01 PM · Studio Nope

What we learned from rebuilding a 1920s warehouse — twice

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The Riverside warehouse came across our desks twice — first as a partial demolition in 2018, then again last year as a full structural retrofit. In between, the building taught us more about adaptive reuse than any course we could have attended.

Read the building before you read the drawings

The 1923 plans turned out to be aspirational, not as-built. We now insist on a full point-cloud survey before our designers touch a thing.

May 3, 2026 4:30:01 PM Studio Nope

Why our scheduling moved out of Excel and onto a single shared timeline

The week our scheduling broke, the trigger was the smallest possible thing: an electrician booked twice across two sites. We caught it on Monday morning. By Wednesday afternoon we'd lost three days ...
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May 3, 2026 4:30:01 PM Studio Nope

How modular framing cut six weeks off our latest mid-rise build

When the team broke ground on Westmount Avenue last spring, we set ourselves an unusual target: deliver the structural shell six weeks ahead of a comparable stick-built project. Here is how modular ...
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May 3, 2026 4:30:01 PM Studio Nope

Concrete carbon: what we now ask every supplier before pouring

Cement production is responsible for roughly 8% of global CO2 emissions. As of last quarter, every concrete pour on a Meridian Build site comes with a supplier emissions disclosure attached to the ...
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Read the building before you read the drawings

Why our scheduling moved out of Excel and onto a single shared timeline

How modular framing cut six weeks off our latest mid-rise build

Concrete carbon: what we now ask every supplier before pouring