Structural analysis & design
Designing and analysing steel, concrete, and timber structures under gravity and lateral loads.
I'm Joshua Potvin, a structural engineering graduate at Rivard Engineering with a parallel passion for IT, where I build web apps and self-hosted services under WSERVERS.
Joshua Potvin — structural engineering graduate at Rivard Engineering, builder and IT tinkerer by habit.
The personal workshop of Joshua Potvin, structural engineering graduate — self-hosted services, web apps, and experiments.
I'm Joshua Potvin, a structural engineering graduate and a recent addition to the team at Rivard Engineering. I'm early in my career and eager to learn. I am soaking up everything I can about how structures are built in practice in hopes to merge engineering design and practical constructability.
What I love most is making detailed design as effortless as possible to produce. I build clear, repeatable design documents that ask only for the inputs that actually matter. Finding a way to code engineering intuition to reduce the necessary inputs and provide faster designs. Strip out the noise, surface the essentials, and let engineering intuition do the rest.
WSERVERS is how I present those solutions. It's the home for my tools and documents I build to turn careful engineering into something clean, shareable, and easy for anyone to pick up and use.
A mix of structural engineering work and the IT projects I build under WSERVERS.
A private, self-hosted AI pipeline. No third-party servers, fully under my control. My goal is to use it as a backup to help plan schedules and manage projects. With task reminders when times get busy.
The next thing taking shape under the WSERVERS banner. To be announced.
There's always something brewing. The next idea I can't stop thinking about will show up here.
Where my focus lives, structural design from first principles through to detailed drawings.
Designing and analysing steel, concrete, and timber structures under gravity and lateral loads.
Building analytical models and production drawings with industry-standard tools.
Designing to Canadian building codes and material standards.
The day-to-day craft of turning analysis into buildable, documented work.
The stack behind my WSERVERS projects.
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