Milestone inspections, SIRS, and restoration guidance.
Plain-language explainers for boards, managers, and owners on structural inspections and reserve studies, written by the engineers who do the work: what the work involves, what the reports mean, and what to ask.
Why these exist
Written for the person who has to make the decision.
Board members, community association managers, and owners are regularly handed a notice from the building official, a report full of terminology, and proposals that do not agree with each other. These guides explain what the engineering work involves, what a report should contain, and what a reasonable next step looks like.
Each one is written by a member of our staff, with the author and their licensure named on the page.
None of this is legal advice, and none of it substitutes for an engineer looking at your building. It is the background that makes the conversation with an engineer shorter.
Start with the one your building needs.
The milestone inspection, explained for owners and boards
What a milestone inspection under Section 553.899, Florida Statutes, involves: Phase 1, Phase 2, the sealed report, and what to ask the engineer, laid out step by step.
A Florida Structural Integrity Reserve Study is your association's capital plan
How a Structural Integrity Reserve Study under Section 718.112(2)(g), Florida Statutes, turns a component list into a funding calendar, and why the numbers behind it matter more than the binder it comes in.
What Contract Administration covers
The gap between the drawings and the built work, pay application drift, and why weekly minutes are a project's memory. Contract Administration costs a small fraction of construction cost and covers all of it.
Firm brochure
A printed overview of the firm, our services, and representative projects, available on request. Ask through the contact page, and we will send a copy.
More guides.
How to read a sealed engineering report before committing to repair scope.
What a professional seal carries, the difference between observed and concealed conditions, and fifteen questions to ask the engineer before the board votes.
Where structural inspections become restoration decisions.
Element by element, from balconies to waterproofing transitions, plus a five-step decision logic for moving from inspection findings to a restoration scope.
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