Experience Must Be Earned in Commercial Building Envelope Consultanting Engineering
No engineering university in the United States teaches structural design with Aluminum or Glass as part of their curriculum. Structural engineers are taught in wood, concrete and steel. JEI Structural Engineers are uniquely qualified for building envelope design and building envelope engineering.
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Building Envelope Design Calculations
Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice. The many functions of the building envelope can be separated to Support (to resist and transfer structural and dynamic loads). JEI Structural Engineers work with glass, aluminum, steel and mixed materials to design and complete engineering calculation packages on Building Envelope Projects.
Building Envelope Consulting
Success or failure of a building envelope, including waterproofing, cladding, glazing and roofing, can determine the outcome of a project. GCI is the industry leading expert in building envelope consulting.
Building Envelope Consulting Design Services:
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Design Assistance – Assist with the selection and detailing of materials and systems.
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Specifications – Review and provide information as needed to develop specifications that fully describe the Contract Documents requirements. Confirm appropriate codes and regulation requirements as well as mistakes in the contract documents related to specification inconsistency.
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Plan Reviews – Peer review of building envelope design calculations. Provide review comments digitally in redline format.
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Design Team Meetings – Available for meetings to collaborate and assist with development of contract documents and discuss review comments. Meetings can be in person or online web meetings before the contract is awarded to minimize unforeseen costs.
Building Envelope Drawings
Buidling envelop drawing and details are available with wide range of glazing, finishing and custom size options. Fall protection, energy efficient, hurricane rated and blast resistant glazing is offered with complete skylight drawings completed by our team of strategic alliance companies.
Building Envelope Design Company
JEI Structural Engineering works with limitless design possibilities as a commercial building envelop company. We work with a building envelope manufacturers, glazing contractor, architects to provide Building Envelope Detail and Building Envelope Design Calculations and Consulting for glass, glazing and panel systems including:
Glass/Aluminum Building Envelope Systems
- Unitized and Stick Curtain Wall
- Punched Windows
- Operable Windows/Vents
- Sliding Glass Doors
- Suspended and Structural Glass Systems
- Double Wall Design
- All-Glass Walls
- Sloped Glazing
- Skylights
Other Glass & Glazing Engineering Services
JEI works with limitless design possibilities for commercial skylight projects. We work with a Skylight Company manufacture, glazing contractor or architect to provide Commercial Skylight Detail and Skylight Design or Skylight Consulting.
Our focus is exclusively glass & glazing industry expertise including work as a:
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