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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & ENERGY, INC. Construction Defects, Seismic Hazards, & Structural Integrity Inspection
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Construction Defects and Seismic Hazards Determinations List of Structures and Facilities in Need of Structural Integrity Inspection for Construction Defects, Foundation Failure, and Seismic & Landslide Hazards, and the Structural Integrity Inspection Services Conducted by Civil and Construction Engineers, Seismologists, and Geotechnical Engineers
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Charles B. Pyke, Ph.D., President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., offers structural integrity inspections for the determination of construction defects and seismic hazards in buildings, bridges, dams, power plants, airports, public schools, and other structures anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, or around the world. We also offer referrals for recommended repair, reinforcement, restoration, and reconstruction services for many of the structures found to be defective or in danger of collapse or severe damage in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or adverse event. A comprehensive list of the t ypes of structures and facilities affected includes, but is not limited to:(For links to individual pages depicting the various structures and facilities for which we offer integrity inspections, construction defects and foundation failure determination, and seismic hazards determination, plus referrals for recommended remedial services, go to our primary construction services page.)
Bridges, railroad - governed by Federal Railroad Administration's Bridge Safety Standards 49 CFR Bridges, pedestrian. Approaches to bridges. Dams, spillways, and river levees. Hydroelectric power plants. Nuclear power plants. Other power plants. Highways, freeways, city streets, and other roads, including elevated highways, torn up by heavy truck travel. Railroad and bus stations. Railroad tracks, including elevated tracks, worn down by weather, land subsidence and liquefaction, earthquakes, and years of train travel . Railroad tracks that were not originally designed for today's heavy trains. Tunnels: road, railroad, and pedestrian. Elevated walkways. River levees and embankments. Aqueducts and canals. Seawalls, breakwaters, jetties, and groins. Piers, wharfs, and docks. Oil wells. Oil. refineries. Offshore oil rigs and platforms.
Coal mines and
coal processing plants.
Oil
pipelines - above and below ground.
Natural gas pipelines - above and below ground. Public works infrastructure, including underground water-supply pipes and conduits. Public works infrastructure, including underground sewer pipes and conduits. Public works infrastructure, including above-ground water-supply pipes and conduits. Public works infrastructure, including above-ground sewer pipes and conduits. Other infrastructure. High-rise office buildings. Buildings and other structures in Lower Manhattan that may have been weakened by the attacks of 9/11/2001. Buildings and other structures in overseas war zones that may have been weakened by bombs. grenades, or heavy gunfire. Federal buildings, state and local government buildings. Military bases and other military facilities. Hospitals, medical centers, and health clinics. Factories and other manufacturing facilities. Water reclamation plants. Large radio and television antenna towers, cellular telephone transmission towers. Large electric and telephone transmission line towers. Telephone poles. Bus and truck terminals. Public and private schools, colleges, and universities. Malls, theaters, and concert halls. Churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques. Stadiums, sports arenas, and other athletic and recreational facilities. Restaurants and fast-food outlets. Retail stores and malls. Police stations and fire stations. Prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. Hotels, motels, condominiums, and apartments. Single-family residences. Swimming pools - large and small. Ships. including cruise ships and cargo ships. Boats, including houseboats. Railroad cars, passenger and freight, worn down by overloading, adverse weather, and years of use. Airplanes: military, commercial passenger, commercial freight, and private - aging and wearing down by extended use. Numerous other types of buildings, roads, and other structures. For links to individual pages for the various structures and facilities for which we offer inspection seismic analysis, and recommended remedial services, go to our primary construction services page.
The defects and hazards include, but are not limited to:
Faulty, shoddy, or generally
poor original construction.
Construction that met
building and seismic codes at the time of the original construction,
but which fail to meet today's codes, and which could be a hazard to life
and property in the future.
Construction that met
building and seismic codes at the time of the original construction, but which have deteriorated over
the years or were damaged or weakened by fire, weather, floods, tsunamis,
earthquakes, ground subsidence, landslides, avalanches, or blasts (including
sonic booms or nearby demolitions).
Foundation failures of
bridges and
structures, resulting from corrosion, earthquakes, subsidence, liquefaction,
ground shifts, tsunamis, and/or
gradual deterioration of materials from water currents and weather.
Unsafe loads for railroad bridges and highway bridges.
Landslides: threats; slides that
have occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the
structure.
Liquefaction: threats;
liquefaction that has occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the
structure.
Slope failure: threats; slope
failure that has occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the
structure.
Sink holes: threats; sink holes,
including hidden sink holes, that may be developing, or may have developed since construction of a structure, and may have weakened the
structure and/or could threaten the structure..
Corrosion, over the years, of
underground and above-ground natural gas, water supply, and sewer pipes and conduits.
Asbestos that may be present in some structures.
Mold,
fungus, and dry rot that may be present in some structures.
Earthquake faults and potential for
major shaking or permanent ground deformation.
Proximity of a structure to earthquake
faults and soil vulnerable to magnified shaking.
Potential for subsidence of the soil
beneath a structure, including differential subsidence within a structure's
footprint.
Services Offered:
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Inspection of the integrity of the
structure, facility or pipeline.
Inspection of railroad bridges, as required annually by Federal Railroad
Administration's Bridge Safety Standards Number 49 CFR.
Construction defects
determination.
Foundation failure determination.
Structural analysis for
damage, deterioration, or corrosion over the years.
Seismic hazards determination and seismic safety
analysis
Landslide hazards determination
Repair of defects.
Mitigation, overhaul, or
renovation - partial or total.
Asbestos removal.
Reinforcement of the structure or facility.
Restoration or reconstruction of the structure or facility.
Protection against maximum
credible earthquake.
Protection against maximum
credible wind event.
Demolition or removal of entire
structure or facility.
Replacement of entire structure or
facility.
Design and construction of new
airports: towers, terminals, runways, and taxiways, U.S. and overseas.
Design and construction of new
universities, colleges, and schools - public and private - U.S. and overseas.
Design and construction of new
high-speed railroad tracks and railroad trains.
Research into improvement in the
construction of various structures or facilities.
* NOTE: Most inspection, evaluation, construction defects determination,
seismic hazards determination,
Environmental
Science & Energy, Inc. is not directly involved with any of said referred services.
Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. does not manage, supervise, oversee,
coordinate, or facilitate any of said referred services. Environmental
Science & Energy, Inc. hereby declares that our corporation is not, and
cannot be held, legally responsible for any of said referred services
and that our corporation assumes no liability at any time - past, present, or
future - for any projects, cases, jobs, work, tasks, or other services totally referred to
other companies or agencies.
This caveat does not apply to most services offered directly by Environmental
Science & Energy, Inc., including our data services, environmental planning
and assessment, forensic expert and testimony services, weather forecasting,
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warming modeling, research and studies,
public lectures, scientific software, and scientific documentaries, plus
For
more information
about these services
and other programs:
Telephone:
FAX: Call (520) 625-8346 to obtain fax number. e-mail: Call (520) 625-8316 to obtain e-mail address.
Mailing address for Dr. Charles B. Pyke,
President & CEO:
Mailing address
Billing and payment address:
P.
O. Box 292760, Phelan,
CA
92329-2760.
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