Who we test for
The work is the same handful of methods. What changes is the question being asked, and who has to answer for it. Find the one that sounds like your week.
Building the envelope
Testing that has to happen while the assembly is still open.
Commercial Roofing Contractors
You installed it, and now someone says it leaks.
Commercial Masonry Contractors
The barrier goes on, the veneer goes up, and from that moment any defect behind it costs ten times what it would have cost the week before.
Facade Contractors
A facade fails at its transitions.
General Contractors
The specification calls for testing, the subcontractor says the work is complete, and the owner will not accept handover without documentation.
Architects & Engineers
Writing testing into a specification is straightforward until you have to say which test, to which standard, performed by whom, and at what point in the sequence.
Owning and operating buildings
Finding what is failing before it becomes a claim or a capital request.
Building Owners & Property Managers
A tenant reports a stain on the ceiling.
Universities & Campuses
A campus is a private utility network that grew for a century under separate facilities directors, and the record of it lives partly in drawings, partly in a filing cabinet, and partly in the memory of someone who retired..
Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities
A hospital cannot be taken offline to look for a problem.
Restoration Contractors
Water does not stay where it entered.
Insurance & Risk Management
Underwriting an electrical system on a schedule of equipment tells you what is installed.
Electrical and mechanical systems
Surveys performed under load, so the fault shows up before the outage does.
Power & Utility Companies
The failures that matter are invisible until they are not.
Commercial Electrical Contractors
Two situations bring you to a thermal camera.
Data Centers
Redundancy protects you from a failure.
Manufacturing & Industrial Facilities
Unplanned downtime on a production line is measured in shifts, not hours, and the failures that cause it rarely announce themselves.
Solar EPCs & Asset Owners
An array that is underperforming looks exactly like an array that is performing, from the ground and from the monitoring portal.
What is underground
Knowing what is buried before something finds it for you.
Developers
A strike stops the job, and not for an afternoon.
Municipalities & Public Works
Water leaves the system somewhere between the plant and the meters, and the arithmetic showing how much says nothing about where..
Environmental Consultants
A soil boring or a monitoring well goes exactly where the sampling plan says it goes, and the sampling plan was drawn from a site map that predates half the utilities on the property..
Commercial Plumbing Contractors
The meter says there is a leak.
Not on the list?
The methods do not care what the building is used for. If you have water getting somewhere it should not, an assembly to certify, or something buried you need found, the test is the same one.