Structural Engineering
Fahy Fitzpatrick Consulting Engineers offer the following Structural Engineering Services:
Structural Engineering and Buildings: Design and Approval
Pyrite Identification & Remedial Engineering Services
Structural Surveys & Reports
Pre-purchase & Due Diligence Surveys for Investment Properties
Pre-purchase House Surveys
General Engineering Reports
Certificates of Compliance
Expert Witness Reporting
Project Management
Property Defects Surveys & Reports
Heritage Development / Protection Projects
Project Supervisor Design Process (PSDP)
Structural Engineering and Buildings: Design and Approval
Preliminary Design and detailing of buildings to include:
- Houses & Extensions
- Apartments
- Offices
- Retail/Shops
- Industrial Units
- Factories
- Hotels
- Refurbishments
- Listed & Heritage Buildings
- Warehouses.
We complement architectural design with aesthetic and cost effective structures using:
- Concrete
- Steel
- Timber
- Masonry
- Glass
- Carbon Fibre Plates
- Proprietary Products.
We undertake design on various types of building elements including:
- Foundations
- Floors
- Beams
- Columns
- Walls
- Roofs
- Water Retaining Structures
- Underground Basements.
Structural Surveys & Reports
We carry out full independent surveys of both new and existing homes and properties. Providing a comprehensive report which details any structural defects within the property. This includes both critical and non-critical items such as:
- Subsidence
- Settlement
- Wall and floor cracking
- Pyrite Damage
- Damp
- Water damage
- Poor workmanship by builders
- Fire Damage
Pre-purchase & Due Diligence Surveys for Investment Properties
- Structural Fabric Surveys
- Detailed Condition Surveys
- Building Regulations Compliance Surveys
- Planning Permission Compliance Reports
- Fire Certificate Compliance Reports
- Ownership and Burden Searches
Pre-purchase House Surveys
Our pre-purchase surveys are carried out prior to signing for both new and existing properties. This allows the potential home owner to make an informed decision on the property.
Thereby allowing the purchaser to review their offer to in light of any repair works that are identified on the Pre-purchase Survey.
We carry out a full survey of the property and provide a report that will detail the general condition of the property. This includes:
- Dampness checks
- Any signs of damage to timbers
- Full exterior and interior building survey
- Insulation checks
- Fire proofing
- Cracking
- Ventilation
- Any urgent issues that warrant examination by a specialist.
General Engineering Reports
We provide engineering reports on a variety of different situations. These include:
- Legal disputes with your building contractor
- Damage to your property as a result of works to a neighbouring property
- Assessment of impact of works to a neighbouring property prior to commencement of works
- Monitoring of your property while works are carried out on a neighbouring property
- Party wall disputes.
Certificates of Compliance
Provision of:
- Certificates of Compliance with Planning and Building Regulations
- Certificates of Compliance with Building Regulations
- Certificates of Exemption from Planning.
Expert Witness Reporting
- Party wall and boundaries
- Accidents: Slips and trips
- Structural defects
- Subsidence and Pyrites
- Flood and Fire damage
- Dilapidation.
Project Management
Carrying out extension or new build works to a property can be a stressful and difficult time for the home owner. We offer a project management service that will guide from inception right up to completion of the works. Our services include the following:
- Liaison between you, your architect and your contractor. Represention on your behlaf on site.
- We offer overall cost control on the project. Monitoring potential expenditure on site and over runs.
- Quality Control
- Overall program control to agreed program of works.
- Technical advice.
- Product advice, product selection, supplier selection and critical timelines.
Property Defects Surveys & Reports
We carry out full independent surveys of both new and existing homes and properties. Providing a comprehensive report which details any Property defects within the property. This includes both critical and non-critical items such as:
- Subsidence
- Settlement
- Wall and floor cracking
- Damp/mould
- Water leakage and damage
- Poor workmanship by builders
- Fire Damage
- Interior and exterior surveys
- Insulation/Heat loss
Heritage Development / Protection Projects
- Structural surveys and reports for heritage / protected structures
- Design of structural works to preserve heritage buildings
- Design of temporary and permanent works to preserve heritage structure during development / improvement works
- Monitoring of the behaviour of structures during adjacent works.
Project Supervisor Design Process
Health & Safety regulations for construction specify that you must engage the services of a suitably qualified PSDP for all building projects (built for commercial gain) where construction is likely to take more than 500 person days or 30 working days.
Fahy Fitzpatrick is fully qualified to deliver a full range of PSDP services for all residential and commercial building and infrastructural developments.
Pyrite Identification & Remedial Engineering Services
Fahy Fitzpatrick offers a full range of engineering services to home owners affected by structural damage caused by pyrite. We are currently involved in the positive identification of pyrite in many homes throughout Leinster. We are also acting as independent experts for homeowners where the original builder or insurance company is engaged in the repair works including certification.
These include the follow:
• Independent visual structural surveys of the entire property.
• Floor level surveys in accordance with Premier Guarantee protocols
• Providing a comprehensive survey and levels report which details all structural defects
• Organize and oversee testing of the infected fill.
• Inclusion of all aspects of the Premier Guarantee protocols in a final report.
• Liaise with Legal expert and offer expert engineering advice
• Provide specifications for remedial works
• Supervision and certification of completed remedial works OR
• Independent monitoring where the original builder is engaged in remedial works
Signs of Pyrite
If you suspect your home is affected by pyrite some of the noticeable effects are as follows:
1. Lifting of a ground floor concrete slab producing cross shaped cracks spreading across concrete slabs. These may be visible on tiled floors.
2. Bowing of the ground floor.
3. Horizontal cracks in partition (timber stud) walls at mid and ceiling levels.
4. Cracks around the chimney breast at ceiling level.
5. Cracks over internal doors.
6. A myriad of ceiling cracks.
7. Doors not opening or closing properly (jamming) and requiring on-going adjustment.
8. External cracks in walls at a low level with possible lateral shift.