Bringing value to our projects through specialized expertise in key areas

Strategic materials and system choices account for embodied carbon origin and impact. We identify, analyze, and track quantities, engaging with this data throughout the project. You will have a comprehensive understanding of how selected options effect the impact of the building on the environment throughout its development and through its lifespan.

A sustainability strategy becomes much clearer when options for reducing carbon impact are understood with other project considerations, such as budget, constructability, program, schedule, and social and political perception.

We proactively identify, assess, and work to mitigate potential negative outcomes related to a building’s site and context as we experience climate change-related impacts.

Frequent severe weather events mark our recent history, increasing the demand for resiliency and risk mitigation in building design and construction. Most industries, building typologies, and regions now require some type of proactive response to uncertain events and changing conditions.

Resilient design requires an integrated approach that considers different conditions and influencing factors experienced under different scenarios and performing with different outcomes, assessed from a variety of perspectives to find collaborative solutions to utilize all available tools and strategies to anticipate and mitigate possible negative outcomes.

Complex timber structures require a systematic approach to materials specification and detailing, one that recognizes the interdependent nature of building systems. From design intent to become reality, specialized knowledge of how to design and detail timber structures must be present from conception through construction.

An integrated project team can tackle complex structural challenges with the necessary tools, data, and perspectives to deliver effective and comprehensive solutions.

DeSimone provides in-situ vibration monitoring to measure and analyze wind, equipment, and human-induced vibrations to detect subtle changes that may indicate early signs of wear, imbalance, misalignment, and systems degradation. Sensors collect data on site, in real time, and over time. The data is collected and then the movement is modeled so that it can be studied and, if necessary, possible solutions can be implemented in the model before being built in reality.

We provide high-quality structural engineering for tilt-up precast structures, as well as panel elevation, lifting and bracing, engineering, and panel reinforcing engineering and shop drawings. Because our drawings are fully fabrication and field-ready, we can deliver uncompromised project vision, performance, and design intent in a format that saves time during construction.

Our field-ready documentation includes detailed plans and models for wall panels, panel reinforcing, and the panel lifting and bracing erection design, key services that we provide in-house through our tilt-up engineering specialists. The entire project team benefits from clear, fully illustrated plans that streamline onsite construction.

Our structural engineers and detailers often collaborate to create fabrication-ready LOD 400 models during the design process, shaving months off the construction schedule.

We develop complete LOD 400 structural models through early collaboration during the design process between our structural engineers and detailing team. Issues are identified and resolved during design development, a clear advantage for fast-track and design-build projects. Our fabrication-ready modeling offering, integrating design and detailing, can save significant time in construction, as steel fabrication can begin months earlier than in a conventional process.

Our integrated engineering and detailing capabilities are a clear competitive advantage for our clients, saving them considerable time and resources, and reducing errors and coordination during active construction. From the outset, you have real-time coordination across disciplines. You have greater cost certainty and transparency. You have predictability.

Integrating structural engineering, detailing, and in-house fabricated steel procurement as well as fabrication and delivery oversight leads to schedule reduction and cost certainty, at an earlier point in the design process.

The advantages of sourcing steel through DeSimone are enhanced by proven engineering, including custom hybrid steel structural designs, integrated connection engineering, professional project management, and practiced field supervision. Early in the project process, we establish direct communication between the structural engineer, architect, detailer, and fabricator. The outcome is a faster, more cohesive design, documentation, and procurement process, with less error and coordination challenges along the way, that enables the delivery of high-quality results in less time and with more cost certainty.