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Design support

Specialty Items

We help manufacturers, fabricators, contractors, and design teams bring specialized components and unconventional material systems into safe, coordinated, permit-ready construction.

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What we do

Engineering beyond conventional building systems.

Specialty items often sit at the intersection of product design, structural performance, fabrication, and building-code requirements. We define loads and boundary conditions, analyze components and connections, coordinate interfaces with the primary structure, and create documentation suited to review and construction.

Our experience with conventional and emerging materials allows us to communicate effectively with architects, engineers of record, manufacturers, installers, and reviewing agencies. We focus on solutions that are structurally sound, manufacturable, repeatable where appropriate, and practical to install.

  • Specialty steel
  • Structural insulated panels
  • Composite materials
  • Delegated design support

Capabilities

Focused support.
Complete perspective.

Scope is tailored to the project, from a focused evaluation to full design and construction-phase services.

01

Specialty steel

Canopies, stairs, platforms, railings, screens, supports, connection design, shop-drawing engineering, and custom assemblies.

02

SIPs + ICF

Analysis and detailing for structural insulated panels, insulated concrete forms, wall and roof systems, openings, and connections.

03

Composite materials

FRP components, platforms, piles, reinforcing systems, and other corrosion-resistant or high-performance applications.

04

Manufacturer support

Product evaluation, component engineering, prototyping support, testing coordination, calculations, and repeatable details.

Our process

From question to
buildable direction.

01

Understand

We establish goals, existing conditions, constraints, available information, and the decisions the engineering must support.

02

Analyze

We evaluate loads, materials, systems, code criteria, interfaces, and practical alternatives.

03

Document

We communicate the selected solution through clear calculations, reports, drawings, details, or specifications.

04

Support

We remain available through review and construction to answer questions and respond to field conditions.

Frequently asked

Good questions lead
to better projects.

Can you support a product that is new to the building market?+

Yes. We can help define structural requirements, evaluate performance, coordinate testing, and develop calculations and details for project-specific or repeatable applications.

Do you engineer delegated-design and shop-drawing items?+

Yes, when the scope, design criteria, interfaces, and jurisdictional requirements are clearly established.

What are structural insulated panels?+

SIPs are high-performance panels typically made with a rigid insulating core between structural skins. They can form walls, roofs, and floors while combining structural capacity with an efficient enclosure.

Start a conversation

Bring us your structural challenge.

Share a few project details and we’ll help define the right next step.

Email our team 631 560 0259