Structural Engineering
Fahy Fitzpatrick Consulting Engineers offer the following Structural Engineering Services:
Structural Engineering and Buildings: Design and Approval
Structural Surveys & Reports
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 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 Propoerty 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.