Pre-Construction
We provide support services and consultation to architects, structural engineers, architectural conservators, restoration contractors, and property stewards to assist in planning and development for heritage conservation projects and at existing structures.
Our primary intent in our support services is to assist the design team to obtain needed information as quickly, flexibly, and efficiently as possible.
In the design team role, we provide a flexible variety of services, including:
· Initiate, enable, troubleshoot, project consulting.
· Assistance in pre-construction site investigations.
· On-site support of design team activities.
· Site work.
· Skilled destructive probes (supplement to non-destructive).
· Logistics.
· Test pits.
· Lifts.
· Masonry cleaning mock-ups.
· Paint strip mock-ups.
· Sample extraction and cores.
· Steel coupons.
· Mock-ups.
· Construction logic.
· Schedule development.
· Assistance in condition surveys.
· Feasibility analysis (as pertains to traditional trade resources).
· Location of difficult-to-source materials.
· Demonstration projects.
· Prototype development and fabrication.
· Assistance in working through difficult projects.
