As Senior Associate with the Building Technology Services practice
area of ENVIRON, I focused on extending the useful lives of multiple buildings through
façade maintenance, repair and restoration, building renovations, historic
preservation, and water leakage investigations. Services included close-up
examinations of exterior building façades to identify conditions of distress
and to investigate the causes of those conditions and were performed on various
building types, including brick, stone, terra cotta and curtainwall
construction.With
respect to sustainability, restoring and repairing existing buildings extends
the useful lives of buildings, thereby utilizing the embodied energies in these
buildings, reduces construction waste by keeping them rather than tearing them
down, and helps in conserving raw materials used in new construction.