Why You Should Use a Civil Engineer for Tiny Home Villages
Many cities are discovering the benefits of creating tiny home villages for their increasing homeless populations. These villages allow homeless families, elderly and singles to get back on their feet and move on to their own accommodations. The villages include laundry washing rooms, small stores, community gardens and other aspects of daily living. If you are a contractor planning a tiny home village, here are some reasons you should use a civil engineer to help with your plans.
Amenities Planning
There will be several amenities the village should have, such as laundry facilities. These amenities need to be placed in an area that is easily accessible to all the members of the tiny home village. Keep in mind that the facilities will likely also be in a tiny home or grouping of tiny homes. This means you need to ensure the pull of water and resources is not overtaxing the resources for the entire village. Your civil engineers can help with this and with the planning and location of each laundry unit.
Tiny Home Structure
One of the structural engineering tasks you will need deals with the tiny home structure. Though most tiny homes are built in the same way, you may want tiny homes in the village to be slightly different. For example, you will have some tiny homes that are built for daily living. Other tiny homes will be designed to hold laundry units, shower stalls or other amenities you want the village to have. You may think this would be an easy design task, but the structural integrity of a tiny home can be vastly different from a traditional building. Structural engineers can help ensure the plans you have can be maintained with durability and integrity in the tiny home buildings you have.
Drainage and Street Routing
One of the areas of a village construction, even smaller tiny home villages, have drainage and street routing issues. Engineers can help with the layout and development of the drainage areas, roadways and routing. They can also work with the topographical area of the land to ensure that you can work around certain topographical developments rather than having to remove them and bring in earthmoving and landscapers to fix the issue to complete the village. The drainage and street routing is especially important in these types of tiny home villages because of the scale of the homes and the fact that many people will be using bicycles or walking to travel.
When you are ready to start planning out the village, contact your local engineers. They can help you with the design as well as mapping out the civil planning of the village itself. If you need further assistance, they can help with structural engineering issues as well as geotechnical issues you may have depending on the location of the village.
