This local retail store is installing new HVAC equipment on the roof Tuesday and Wednesday this week. To insure the structural adequacy of the supporting roof, the retailer contracted with Tim McCarthy P.E.
On a moment's notice, Tim McCarthy P.E. sent a trained structural inspection team to the site "to determine precisely the structural parameters," said Tim McCarthy P.E. "Many such buildings no longer have construction drawings available, therefore the necessity of a site inspection."
Tim McCarthy P.E. completed the structural analysis, which determined that in in several locations structural reinforcements would be necessary.
The construction crews have been qualified and scheduled. Their work will be done Monday night, in time for the HVAC installation.
Tim McCarthy P.E. is the leading supplier of nationwide turnkey structural services to the retail and HVAC industries.
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Roof Strengthening and Roof Reinforcement methods are explored in this site. The most economically successful roof structures have utilized truss shapes. During the course of the last century, eonmies of scale and mass production have been brought to this naturally economical structural shape. As the engineering process has been increasingly performed by manufacturers, private engineering firms are often unsure how to design reinforcements for the structures for their Client's when needed.
