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Structural design, steel detailing, field inspection, and precise existing-condition documentation for industrial, commercial, and residential projects.
Engineering services
Responsive engineering grounded in constructability, code compliance, efficient load paths, and the realities of the field.
Code-based design of beams, columns, trusses, braced and moment frames, connections, platforms, equipment supports, pipe racks, stairs, and access systems. SSD can carry a project from concept and calculations through coordinated BIM models, erection plans, and fabrication-ready piece drawings.
Delegated cold-formed steel design for exterior curtain walls, load-bearing walls, parapets, bulkheads, headers, jambs, deflection tracks, drift conditions, and specialty framing. Services include sealed calculations, member schedules, connection design, and project-specific framing details coordinated with architectural openings and structural movement.
Efficient, code-compliant framing for custom homes, multifamily buildings, additions, complex roofs, floor systems, timber members, decks, and load-bearing wall modifications. SSD develops practical framing layouts, beam and post schedules, connection details, lateral-load paths, and permit-ready structural plans.
Shallow and deep foundation systems for commercial buildings, industrial equipment, pipe racks, conveyor towers, pre-engineered metal buildings, basements, additions, and specialty structures. Design can include spread footings, grade beams, mats, pile caps, equipment pedestals, vessel foundations, walls, piers, anchorage, and reinforcement details based on available geotechnical criteria.
New-foundation, underpinning, uplift, lateral, and stabilization solutions for poor soils, restricted-access sites, rapid installations, additions, and settlement repair. SSD evaluates structural reactions, selects pile configurations and capacities, and details brackets, pile caps, grade beams, and load transfer into the supported structure.
Engineered earth-retention and excavation-shoring systems tailored to site geometry, soil pressures, groundwater, surcharges, adjacent structures, and construction sequencing. Capabilities include cast-in-place concrete, reinforced masonry, segmental systems, soldier pile and lagging, sheet piles, helical tiebacks, and temporary excavation support.
Practical engineering for commercial renovations, industrial modifications, adaptive reuse, distress evaluation, structural reinforcement, selective demolition, and complex field conditions. Work may include field investigation, load-rating calculations, repair concepts, shoring requirements, construction documents, and observation of completed repairs.
High-definition FARO laser scanning captures accurate existing conditions for industrial coordination, commercial renovation, equipment installation, documentation, and scan-to-BIM workflows. Deliverables can include registered colorized point clouds, ReCap-compatible files, BIM models, floor plans, elevations, sections, and dimensionally reliable base drawings.
Structural engineering for vertical and horizontal vessel supports, saddles, skirts, equipment platforms, pipe racks, process skids, access systems, and associated anchorage. SSD develops practical steel framing, support reactions, connection loads, and foundation criteria for new installations and plant modifications.
Concrete beam, column, pedestal, wall, pile-cap, and equipment-foundation design for new and existing structures. SSD develops reinforcing, anchorage, load-transfer, and constructible connection details for steel-to-concrete interfaces and process equipment supports.
Clear technical reports that document observed structural deficiencies, probable causes, limitations of the review, recommended actions, and priorities for repair. Reports can be supported by field photography, FARO point clouds, marked-up plans, repair concepts, and follow-up construction observations.
Steel systems
SSD Industries connects structural analysis, BIM coordination, and buildable details into one continuous steel-design workflow.
Member sizing, lateral-system design, connection development, coordinated 3D modeling, and individual fabrication drawings for industrial and building structures. Scope can include access platforms, stairs, catwalks, equipment frames, conveyor supports, mezzanines, bracing, base plates, and field-fit modifications.
Complete steel support systems for process access, elevated equipment, maintenance routes, and plant modifications. SSD coordinates live loads, guardrails, grating, stairs, framing, supports, anchorages, and the connection of new steel to existing concrete or structural steel.
Delegated engineering for exterior curtain walls, load-bearing framing, parapets, headers, jambs, deflection tracks, drift conditions, and project-specific connections.
Inspection capabilities
Field observations become useful decisions through precise documentation, engineering judgment, and direct recommendations.
Field verification for structural steel, concrete, masonry, anchors, and other Chapter 17 construction requirements.
Focused investigation of distress, movement, corrosion, deterioration, and other structural performance concerns, documented in concise assessment reports.
Site visits, repair verification, photographic documentation, and clear reporting that keeps work moving.
Registered 3D point clouds and BIM-ready existing-condition models for renovation, coordination, and hard-to-access spaces.
Concrete + anchorage engineering
SSD designs concrete members and foundations that carry real equipment, steel, and building loads into the ground - including reinforced beams, columns, pile caps, pedestals, equipment pads, and steel-to-concrete anchorage.
Hilti PROFIS Engineering is used as part of SSD's anchor-design workflow to evaluate post-installed anchor layouts, tension and shear demands, edge distances, embedment, and concrete failure modes. Final project details are coordinated with the governing structural design, product data, and field conditions.
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