Congratulations Dallas Area Builders
The McSam Awards are organized annually by the Dallas Builders Association to recognize member achievement in marketing, advertising and product design.
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City of Austin offers online permits
The City of Austin now offers ePLAN Review permit filing system for residential projects. This online submittal is designed to streamline and organize the plan review, payment, and approval processes. This would minimize or eliminate trips to the Development Services Department. The city’s aim is to stop accepting paper permits as soon as April. There […]
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How Austin’s Energy Code affects your plans
The City of Austin rolled out their local amendments which are in addition to the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code. We’ve excerpted a few of the most common solutions to increase your R-value on what the City of Austin is requiring.
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Builder 100: The Big List
Every year, prestigious trade journal BUILDER magazine ranks the country’s top homebuilders. The 2016 list has just come out, and Kipp Flores is excited to share the lineup. We are proud to be partners with a dozen of the Top 100 (including three of the top ten!). Their success is as important to us as our own. Congratulations to our clients.
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2015 Parade of Homes – San Antonio Builders Association
Cary Kipp of Kipp Flores Architects designed two projects in this year’s Parade of Homes for Sitterle Homes. Both emphasize openness and the outdoors. Cary chose to orient the core of the homes towards both the side and rear of the lot – maximizing natural light and yard access on these zero-lot line designs.
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AIA Austin Homes Tour 2015
Kipp Flores is excited to share news of the upcoming American Institute of Architects Homes Tour. This annual tour highlights new construction and remodel projects of local architects and firms. Mark your calendar with the details.
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Plans were judged by actual consumers that were either looking for a new home, remodeling their existing home, or had just purchased a home in certain price categories.
READ MOREBig Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring Center
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas had several offices throughout Austin but wanted everything centralized at one facility. KFA designed the preliminary design and exterior façade of the mentoring center, which will include the offices for BBBS staff, conference rooms, youth activity areas, a community resource area, and volunteer training rooms.
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When we were contacted by Manos de Cristo, they were operating their dental office in a smaller space that was no longer meeting the needs of their increasing clientele. Sabas Flores and the KFA team created a new design to convert this existing church sanctuary into a new, state-of-the-art dental office, going from a 4 chair clinic to an 11 chair clinic.
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When the team at Austin Children’s Shelter approached Kipp Flores Architects, their goal was to create a campus, living quarters, and a general service building to allow them to continue providing important services to children, young adults and families in need.
READ MORECensus: Austin Fastest-Growing Metro in Texas, Third-Fastest in Nation
Austin was the third-fastest growing metro area in the nation during the past year,according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, with the population expanding by 3 percent between July 2013 and July 2014.
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