Over the past month we’ve been working with an engineer providing the structural review for the house.  After interviewing and getting quotes from a few different firms, we ended up using Rick Heide at Design Build Services.  A co-worker of mine used to work at DBS and gave it stellar reviews.  His pricing was extremely reasonable and I figured that since he came recommended that we should give him a shot.

Of course we had a few hiccups along the way; but I call it too many cooks in the kitchen.  When you have 3 professionals working together (engineer + architect + builder) plus an owner who’s a civil engineer you’re bound to end up with some differences of opinion.

Well, the engineer calculations and plans are finally done today.  That means that when we’re ready we can submit them to the County for review and that Mike can update our architectural plans to show the correct information.   Then those plans will be wrapped up too!

Engineering Calcs Cover

One of our Engineering Seismic Calculations Sheet

One of the Engineering Detail Sheet