Services

GravityWorks provides a complete range of life cycle services, from design collaboration to on-site construction review:

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  • 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