Services
GravityWorks provides a complete range of life cycle services, from design collaboration to on-site construction review:
- Forensics:
- For existing commercial and residential structures, including historic structures, field review, analysis, and recommendations
- Additionally, for historic buildings, review of the period materials and construction methods to design structural upgrading with a sensitive approach to preserve and maintain the original fabric of the structure
- Structural design, including signing and sealing the structural portion of the construction set of documents:
- Design consultation and collaboration, including development of preliminary framing plans as well as temporary shoring to stablize an older building, with planned repairs happening in stages
- Gravity analysis to produce foundation and framing drawings and calculations
- Lateral load analysis to produce drawings and calculations
- Structural detailing
- General structural notes
- Computer-aided-design (CAD) drafting services of structural plans
- Plan-review resolution to obtain building permits
- Construction review and plan modification:
- Plan revisions and remedial solutions to field problems
- Review/modification of shop drawings
- Special structural inspections
- Construction observations