Structural Engineering Services

| Buildings | | Steel Structures |
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Educational
  • Multi-unit housing
  • Office and commercial
  • Healthcare
  • Retail & shopping
  • Industrial & heavy industrial
  • Laboratory & research
  • Customized steel framed structures
  • Pre-engineered building specifications
  • Precast concrete parking garages
  • CMU masonry
  • Wood framed
  • Equipment towers
  • Platforms
  • Mezzanines
  • Pipe bridges and bents
  • Equipment platforms and walkway trusses
  • Stair towers and enclosures
  • Elevator structures and shafts

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Structural Assessments |

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Concrete Structures |
  • Industrial mill buildings
  • Waste-to-energy facilities
  • Parking garages
  • Roof evaluations, modifications, and strengthening for RTU air handlers
  • Building envelope inspections and repairs
  • Bar joist roof capacity studies
  • Cast-in-place industrial concrete basements
  • Clarifiers
  • Retaining walls
  • Cooling tower basins, sumps, and clear wells
  • Containment dikes
  • Precast underground vaults

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Foundations |

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Rehabilitation and Repair |
  • Spread footings
  • Piled foundations
  • Caissons and drilled piers
  • Building column foundations and grade beams
  • Pre-engineered building foundations
  • Mats
  • Floor slabs
  • Foundations for static equipment (tanks, generators, & transformers)
  • Foundations for dynamic equipment (motors, blowers, & compressors)
  • Thrust blocks for underground piping
  • Building column repairs & replacements
  • Girder repairs & replacements
  • Baseplate & anchor bolt replacements
  • Building renovations & repair
  • Building modifications for adaptive reuse
  • Repair of fire damaged, corroded, or acid damaged steel framing
  • Protective coatings selection
  • Inspection & repair of cracked concrete water retaining structures
  • Crane runway upgrades
  • Duct supports

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Project Management |

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Construction Documents |
  • Preliminary and conceptual planning studies
  • Constructability studies
  • Engineering proposals
  • Engineering schedules
  • Client meetings
  • Proposal bid documents and vendor selection
  • Lump sum pricing
  • T&M pricing
  • Three-part specifications
  • AutoCAD drawings
  • Estimates of probable construction costs
  • Request for Proposal documents
  • Bid evaluations

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Construction Support |

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Professional Licenses |
  • Shop drawing review
  • RFI’s
  • Value engineering
  • Site inspections
  • Scope changes
  • Registered in CT, DE, FL, IN, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OH, PA, & VA
  • NCEES record registration

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Computer Technology |

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Building Codes |
  • STAAD.Pro analysis and
    design software
  • AutoCAD 2010, three stations
  • AutoCAD LT 2010, three stations
  • IBC 2006
  • IRC 2006
  • ACI 318 Structural Concrete
  • ACI 350 Environmental Concrete
  • AISC LRFD and ASD Manual of Steel Construction
  • ASCE 7 Minimum Design Loads
  • NDS American Wood Council 
| Professional Affiliations |  
  • ACI – American Concrete Institute
  • AISC – American Institute of Steel Construction
  • AIST – Association for Iron and Steel Technology
  • ASCE – American Society of Civil Engineers
 

Downingtown Engineering Consultants, Inc. | 315 E. Lancaster Avenue, Suite A | Downingtown, PA 19335-2941 | phone 610-873-7187 | fax 610-450-6582 | sales@callDEC.com
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