Pre-Design & Site-Related Testing Services

  • Identify the testing services that will be recommended and required.
  • Retain a contractor to assist with scaffolding or swing stage rigging, site review, and destructive investigation, water testing, and related procedures.
  • Work with Client to identify a location on the building to perform investigation and testing procedures.
  • Provide on-site monitoring and coordination of testing and sample area installations.
  • Provide static water testing of masonry wall, window, and curtain wall systems.
  • Establish procedures to properly repair and seal wall, window, and roofing systems to address building leakage.
  • Provide in-place water testing of mock-up sample sealing and repair procedures.
  • Work with Contractor to perform destructive masonry procedures to establish origin of problems.
  • Establish procedures required to properly correct masonry problems.
  • Perform in-place water testing of installed corrective mock-up sample of masonry procedures.
  • Review testing procedures, findings, and proposed repair procedures with Client.
  • Should existing conditions or corrective procedures involve the structural integrity of the facility, retain a structural engineer to work as part of the design team, participate in review and engineering of the proposed repairs, and provide structural engineering recommendations for corrective action.
  • Provide concrete coring and testing at balconies, plaza decks, parking structures, and related areas to determine the extent of moisture between structural and overlay concrete.
  • Based on core samples and testing procedures performed, develop the extent to which overlay concrete and underlying waterproofing must be repaired or replaced.
  • Coordinate findings and decisions from site testing and sample applications into design criteria to be incorporated into the specifications for remedial work.
  • Prepare a report documented with photographs to describe existing conditions and to outline recommendations.