Areas of Specialty
Residential Services
We can help with all aspects of residential design. We have years of experience consulting with do-it-your-selfers, contractors, designers, architects, and property owners on all manner of projects. Some of the key services we offer include:
- Structural review of new homes, remodels, and additions
- Seismic retrofitting of existing structures
- Foundation assessments on existing structures
- Design of repairs for fire/water/catastrophic damage
- Special inspections and structural observation – bolting, epoxy, concrete placement, rebar, welds
- Manufactured home assessment
- Stormwater systems design
- Structures without building permits
- CAD services
If you need help with any aspect of design, construction, permitting, or evaluation and assessment, let us know – we can definitely help.
Commercial and Public Design
Our office has consulted on the design of many commercial and public structures. We have worked on:
- Schools
- Banks
- Restaurants
- Office Buildings
- Clinics
- Farm Stands
- Houses of Worship
- Many, many more
Our office utilizes a suite of powerful structural modeling software that allows us to build and investigate any structure. The impact of changes can be implemented on the fly, allowing the design to be streamlined for the best performance while keeping costs down.
We can provide construction oversight, special inspection, shop drawing review, structural assessments, life-safety evaluations, and post-construction documentation.
We are also committed to community development and have performed pro bono work for Habitat for Humanity and other non-profits.
Towers and Telecom
We have a vast database of towers in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, and have been providing structural analyses on these towers since day one. We are experts in evaluating tower capacity and can design solutions for overstressed conditions. We can help with:
- Monopoles
- Guyed towers
- Self-supporting towers
- Unique transmission structures
- Telecom buildouts
- Design and analysis of equipment facilities
- Anchorage of telecom units to rooftops, water tanks, or other structures
- Upgrade design for failing towers
- Mapping services
We utilize state-of-the-art software to analyze your tower to current code (right now, revision G of the TIA) and can back-analyze to previous revisions. If you are in need of mapping or analysis for a tower, let us know.
Specialty Services
Johnson Broderick Engineering can help solve almost any engineering problem. We offer many services that are unique and will help you achieve your goal, such as:
- Infrared imaging of structures to detect unseen anomalies, such as moisture intrusion
- Foundation assessment for manufactured homes -FHA, VA, conventional
- Design of stormwater systems – drywells, rain gardens, storage systems, bioswales
- Mobile CAD services
- Fire escape evaluation and retrofit
- Structural disaster repair design – tree strikes, snow damage, fire damage, automobile damage, flood damage
- Scaffolding design and emergency shoring
- Unique structures – yurts, straw bale, subterranean structures
- Solar panel and wind power assemblies for residential or commercial applications
- Structures without building permits
And the list goes on. Call our office and we can work out a solution for your problem together.