Inspections and Repair Design
Parking structures are a special class of structures that require special attention and consideration because the structural repairs and waterproofing to maintain them are often a punishment that doesn't fit the crime, the assessments of which are increasingly required by many states and municipalities.
Inspections and Repair Design
Like Parking Structures, exterior walls take a lot of abuse and deteriorate to unsafe conditions such that many AHJ's require their periodic inspection and repair. Payne Engineering is an experienced building envelope consultant and construction manager.
Green Roof, Amenity Space, or Just Plain Roofing Consulting
Roofing projects have hundreds of options, but one goal, which is to keep you dry. Payne Engineering can help determine the right program and roofing technologies appropriate for your use, occupancy, and wallet.
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning. Comfort and Energy Consulting
There is not one right solution to solve your project's heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning needs, as well as many wrong solutions. Fossil fuels or conversion to electric, centralized or decentralized, service upgrades and energy savings are just a few of the questions we can help you answer.
Int'l Fire Code Compliant Inspections
Fire escapes are like insurance. No one wants to use them, and few of us understand them. Mandatory inspections often result in unanticipated expenses. Payne Engineering has a sophisticated and reasonable approach to these inspections to help ensure your safety while treating you fairly.
Proven Subject Matter Experts in all the Services Provided
Payne Engineering provides practical, confident, and experienced subject matter expertise to construction and design defects related to a broad range of deficiencies involving structures, stormwater management, waterproofing, parking, ventilation, redevelopment and renovations, and transition from developers.
Electric Vehicles will be the Majority
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations are an increasing challenge in urban environments and multi-family communities who are trying to figure out how to meet the growing needs within the limitations of the existing infrastructure and ownership in these communities. Payne Engineering can help.
Reserve Study Laws are Increasing Nation Wide
Recent collapses have brought new awareness to the challenges many condos and coops face as they try to balance the needs of their existing infrastructure with the limitations of their community. State laws however are becoming more stringent. Payne Engineering can help navigate these competing issues with technical and fiscal judgement with healthy doses of experience and common sense.
CANNABIS CULTIVATION, MANUFACTURE, and DISPENSARIES
Why not? Payne Engineering has been very successful bringing common sense, prudence, and cost-effective design to an industry that is quickly growing out of the shadows into prominent urban spaces. Urban agriculture was once an urban legend until engineers, growers, manufacturers, and retailers learned how to play in the same apartment. Payne Engineering is one of them.
Trust Payne Engineering for your Most Important Investments
Payne Engineering is particularly well suited to provide specialized due-diligence for acquisitions and dispositions because they have seen and conquered every defect and condition. Payne Engineering can quickly mobilize and opine on your "it's complicated" real-estate transactions as far as it relates to engineering and architecture, and the assessment of the built environment.
Electric Bicycles and Alternative Transportation are getting a bad rap
... in the cities and communities that need them most. Why are electric cars not being banned from multi-family housing, while electric bicycles and scooters are becoming prohibited? Payne Engineering is passionate about alternative transportation and offers consulting to help overcome the typical objections and obstacles impeding their growth.
FIRE PROTECTION CONSULTING
Fire protection design is unusual and challenging. It is a system that waits in standby, but is designed to run at peak performance longer than any other system in the event of fire. There are many controls, pumps, valves, compressors, and other devices that wait like Palace Guards. Let Payne Engineering help ensure that the system is fit for service and repaired or ugraded as needed.
Historic Building Restoration and Preservation is Important and Valuable until its yours.
Repairs and maintenance are almost more expensive than anyone would hope or like, which could never be more true than it is with historic buildings. Let Payne Engineering help referee the challenges of important history and idealized national standards, against limited available resources.
Domestic Cold & Hot Water, and Gas
There are many plumbing challenges in existing buildings that are underscored by their potential for property damage or service interruption to occupants, often one-story below. Piping and domestic water production age, wear out, or become clogged due to water quality, equipment failure, or other factors that can be assessed and repaired if evaluated on a periodic basis.
Electrical Engineering and Emergency Power
Electricity, like anything else, is often taken for granted until it's not there. Commercial, Industrial, Institutional and Multi-family buildings are either unaware of their electrical vulnerabilities, or aware too late. Payne Engineering is experienced in the assessment, repair, or upgrade of electrical distribution systems, including emergency stand-by power.
Fire Alarm Upgrade & Code Consulting
Many are not aware of how many things need to happen in a building when smoke, CO, or heat is detected. Elevator recalls, ventilation shuts down, smoke is purged, fire doors are shut, and occupants are notified. Fire Alarm upgrades are often needed as building systems are improved or where required by Code when inadvertently triggered by other work, especially in high-rises. Payne Engineering is experienced with high-rise fire alarm design.
Assessing and improving storm water management to prevent flooding.
Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Ida, and it's getting worse. Rainfall quantity, frequency, and intensity continue to increase as far as the data is concerned for the past 20-years. If you think you have had problems now, just wait. Payne Engineering is experienced with the most difficult sites, both in urban and suburban environments.
Site and Civil Engineering including Paving and Planning
Civil engineering isn't always polite or neat because there are few things as unpredictable as the ground, especially when cutting it, filling it, founding on it, or paving over it. Payne Engineering has solved difficult site civil engineering problems from contamination, settlement, paving defects, and more.
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Payne Engineering changed the way we saw engineers and project managers. We are grateful they were on our side.
