Delivering value at every phase of a building’s lifecycle.
Protection from the Elements
Inspections & Asset Management Services
We help protect your investment by ensuring your building’s outer shell performs reliably — resisting weather, moisture, air movement, and temperature extremes. Our approach is rooted in a deep understanding of how building envelope systems behave over time, so you can make decisions that protect value and reduce risk.
1Due Diligence Inspection
A thorough and unbiased inspection is critical for understanding a property’s true condition — especially before you buy, sell, lease, or negotiate repairs. Our due diligence inspections provide a deep, comprehensive professional evaluation of performance and risk, along with a documented scope of work, recommended priorities, and cost estimates.
We focus on actionable insight: what’s performing well, what’s not, what’s likely to fail next, and what it will take to fix it. You’ll walk away with objective findings that support confident negotiations, realistic budgeting, and informed decision-making.
2 Building Envelope Assessment
Our consultants deliver clear, objective evaluations tailored to your goals — whether that’s a condition assessment of an entire property or a focused review of a specific concern. A building’s exterior systems are made up of materials and assemblies that must work together to manage weather, moisture, and environmental stress. How these systems age and perform is influenced not just by design, but also by detailing, installation quality, material aging, usage, and ongoing wear and tear.
Because conditions can vary widely across a building or portfolio, we don’t just identify isolated issues—we evaluate them in the context of overall performance, potential damage risk, safety concerns, and your long-term asset strategy. Our recommendations incorporate technical findings, risk prioritization, realistic cost estimates, and the owner’s plans for the asset so you can protect and enhance building value over time.
3 Facade Assessment &
Accurate assessment of building façades is essential for maintaining safety, performance, and long-term value. Our team brings experience across a wide range of building types and exterior assemblies, so we know how to evaluate conditions with precision and context.
We use proven techniques — including visual observations, electronic moisture detection, core sampling, material testing, leak investigation, water testing, and drone inspections when it makes sense — to verify how your façade systems are performing and where vulnerabilities may exist. When required, we provide Safety Certifications with a Professional Engineer (PE) stamp to satisfy local ordinances and regulatory requirements. We also assist with submittal requirements to ensure your documentation is complete and acceptable to authorities having jurisdiction.
The goal is clarity and confidence: you’ll receive a detailed evaluation that identifies what’s working, what’s at risk, and how best to address it with cost-aware solutions — along with certified documentation you need to comply with local safety standards and to support the design of effective, code-compliant solutions.
Safety Certifications
4 Roof Asset Management
Your roof is one of your building’s most critical components, and proactive management is key to protecting its performance and long-term value. As your independent roof expert, we provide structured monitoring and strategic insight so you always know where your roof stands and what’s ahead.
We conduct annual roof inspections that include thorough visual evaluation, photographic documentation, and condition analysis. These inspections identify wear patterns, emerging concerns, and performance trends, giving you a reliable picture of current condition and future needs.
Our detailed reports go well beyond simple observations. They include:
• Prioritized repair recommendations, highlighting high-priority issues that warrant attention
• Clear cost estimates so you can budget with confidence
• Photographs that document conditions and support decisions
• Estimated remaining service life of the roofing system
• Guidance that supports warranty compliance and helps preserve coverage over time
This combination of insight and actionable documentation helps you make informed decisions that extend the life of your roofing system, reduce risk, maintain warranty coverage, and protect your investment.
5 Roof Warranty Management
Roofing manufacturer warranties can be valuable — but only if they’re understood and maintained properly. The reality is that most warranties are written first and foremost to protect the manufacturer’s interests, not the owner’s. They often contain exclusions, strict documentation requirements, and procedural hurdles that can make coverage difficult to use when you really need it.
As your independent roof expert, we help you cut through complex and sometimes confusing warranty language so you understand exactly where coverage applies — and where it doesn’t. Our Roof Warranty Management service ensures you fully understand your warranty’s terms, what obligations must be met, and how to maintain compliance over the life of the roof.
We help you:
• Evaluate and interpret warranty language
• Identify documentation and inspection requirements
• Monitor compliance throughout a roof’s service life
• Navigate the warranty transfer process when ownership changes
A properly managed and transferable warranty isn’t just paperwork — it can be a perceived value driver when selling a property, giving buyers and lenders confidence that the roof has been maintained and risks have been mitigated.
6 Portfolio & Lifecycle Planning
Smart planning leads to smarter property decisions. Our 5-year needs assessment and repair design service gives you a forward-looking roadmap that helps you anticipate requirements, manage cost and performance, and sequence work over time. This is not a static report — scoping and scheduling are highly interactive with you, ensuring priorities, budgets, timing, and strategic goals are aligned every step of the way.
This service is especially valuable for owners and portfolio managers responsible for multiple buildings at once. Instead of reacting to problems as they arise, you get a proactive strategy to manage performance and costs across your entire portfolio.
Our planning includes:
• Comprehensive condition analysis of existing building envelopes
• Risk and performance prioritization to identify which components demand attention first
• Cost forecasting and performance projections for repairs, maintenance, and replacements over the next five years
• Lifecycle projections that estimate remaining useful service life
• Collaborative scoping and scheduling that aligns performance goals and budget realities
• Integrated repair design support to help translate assessment findings into actionable project plans
With this approach, you’ll walk away with clarity on where risks and performance gaps are concentrated, what investments should happen when, and how best to optimize performance while managing costs — making your long-term planning more predictable, efficient, and defensible.
Repair, Restoration & Replacement Services
When components of your building envelope require repair, restoration, or replacement, a thoughtful, strategic approach makes all the difference. Clear scoping, cost transparency, and expert oversight help ensure work is executed effectively, performance expectations are met, and budget pressures are managed.
As your independent building envelope advisor, we help you define what needs to be done, choose the right solutions, apply expert detailing, and protect both performance and budget over time. From early concept and cost planning through contractor selection and construction oversight, our services provide a trusted roadmap to action — one grounded in real field data, tailored to your goals, and designed to deliver measurable value.
1 Design Options & Costs
Every building envelope repair, restoration, or replacement can be approached in different ways — and each approach affects performance, cost, and long-term value. Our design options and cost planning services give you clear alternatives — from short-term fixes to long-term solutions — with detailed cost estimates and performance projections for each.
Our recommendations are based on real field data and focused on balancing performance and lifecycle cost. This helps you budget wisely, reduce surprises, and select solutions that align with your asset strategy.
2 Plans & Specifications
Clear plans and specifications are the foundation of successful building envelope repair, restoration, or replacement work — especially when waterproofing detailing and transitions are involved. We prepare documents that precisely define the scope, quality, performance expectations, and critical waterproofing details so contractors know exactly what to price and build.
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Well-crafted plans and specifications reduce ambiguity, support fair and competitive bidding, and improve price confidence. When paired with cost planning and bid management, they help you control budget, manage performance outcomes, and protect value throughout the project — while ensuring water-sensitive assemblies work as intended.
3 Bid Management
Effective bid management ensures you get fair, competitive pricing and clarity about what is being proposed. Our bid management services start with well-defined scopes of work and logical bid packages that help contractors provide accurate pricing for building envelope repairs, restoration, or replacement.
We guide the entire process — from recommending qualified contractors and managing pre-bid activities to responding to RFIs, issuing addenda, compiling results, and clarifying scope and schedule before contract execution. We also build in allowances and unit pricing for hidden conditions, and account for general conditions, mobilization and setup, and tenant restrictions, so your proposals reflect real-world project requirements.
4 Construction Adminstration
During construction, we serve as your independent technical advisor and an extension of your management team. We help ensure accountability, efficiency, and quality through coordination meetings, progress documentation, change order review, payment approval, and project closeout support.
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Our construction-phase services include:
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Verifying work conforms to contract documents, specifications, and manufacturer requirements
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Providing objective field observations and photographic documentation
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Reviewing change orders for scope, pricing, and necessity
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Supporting payment applications based on verified progress
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Assisting with punch lists, closeout documentation, and warranty compliance
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This approach allows owners and managers to maintain control while minimizing risk, cost overruns, and unnecessary disruption.
5 Third-Party Quality Control &
Plans and contracts don’t guarantee performance — field execution matters. Our third-party quality control and independent review services provide objective verification that work aligns with the contract, specifications, and performance expectations.
As your independent building envelope expert, we offer:
• Quality control inspections during construction
• Peer review of design professionals’ and contractors’ work
• Independent arbitrage support to resolve disagreements before they escalate
• Defensible documentation to support negotiation or further action if needed
Reports include photos, condition observations, and prioritized recommendations you can use for corrective action or planning.
Independent Review
Building envelope failures are rarely obvious and seldom caused by a single factor. Our investigative services blend technical expertise with advanced diagnostics to uncover hidden issues, determine root causes, and define durable solutions — giving you clarity, confidence, and a path forward that protects performance and reduces risk.
Building Enclosure Investigation Services
2 Envelope Condition &
Understanding the current design and condition of your building’s exterior systems is often critical to diagnosing the root cause and extent of a problem. We provide comprehensive evaluations of roofs, façades, cladding, and other enclosure components to assess performance, identify distress, and estimate remaining service life.
Exterior Wall Investigations
4 Roof System Forensics
Clients often contact us when persistent leaks have them contemplating a roof replacement — especially on systems over 20 years old, where history, plans, and specs are missing. When a system may need extensive repairs or replacement, three data points that are not visible are critical to know: how many roofing systems exist, how much wet or damaged insulation is present, and whether and where ACM (asbestos-containing materials) is present.
5 Technology-Driven
Hidden issues often don’t show up with a visual inspection from easily accessible locations. Our diagnostics use advanced tools and engineering judgment to reveal problems, cover large and inaccessible areas, and improve recommendations:
• Drone & Satellite Inspections
• Infrared & Nuclear Imaging
• Moisture Detection & Leak Mapping
• Blower Door Testing
• 3D Reality Capture & Digital Documentation
• AI-Assisted Image Analysis (Emerging)
Investigative diagnostics give you clarity and confidence — the ability to find hidden problems, base decisions on data, support budgeting and design, validate conditions for bidding, and quality control.
Envelope Diagnostics