Crystallis

Planning and developing strategies for the long- and short-term needs of your building is essential to protecting your building assets and investments. Our team will work with you to establish maintenance and renewal plans that address the lifelong needs of key components in your building.

These services include reserve studies, façade inspection reports, depreciation reports, maintenance plans, facility condition assessments, and more. With over 20 years in the industry, we’ve put together over 2,000 reports for owner groups across North America. To help our clients identify funding requirements for significant future projects, we’ve developed customized systems that include dynamic modeling of anticipated costs, planning options, and funding approaches to help you prepare for future needs.

A building enclosure condition assessment (BECA) and investigation may be required when an enclosure is suspected of having a problem, such as a leak. A BECA report describes either the current condition of the overall enclosure or specific components, such as windows or a balcony, and aims to identify problems or potential problems. If we detect failures, we will recommend the next steps that may lead to repairs or a renewal.

Our team will review the original building drawings, carry out an owner survey, and then spend time onsite visually reviewing various components of the building enclosure. In addition, we will make exploratory openings to assess the condition of hidden components. Our team may use a range of testing and special analysis techniques, such as thermography. We provide a written report of our findings and recommendations and present them at meetings with the owner group.

On any rehabilitation project, our Construction Project Management (CPM) team undertakes the basic contract administration (CA) functions required by the contract. In addition to CA, our team can provide project management (PM) services, an elevated level of service and oversight where our experienced project managers work with general contractors on your behalf. We also routinely provide construction management (CM) services, working as your agent to handle all aspects of construction and acting as the prime contractor. With CM services, we arrange contracts directly between you and subcontractors, and we manage the work on your behalf. Our team of experienced project managers, project coordinators, and superintendents work closely with our technical team to ensure a smooth transition between the design and construction phases.

With our CM services, your site will be supervised full time by a professional RDH superintendent, who acts as your advocate to ensure that the project is running smoothly. With our CPM team taking care of all the administrative matters and foreseeing problems before they arise, you will have peace of mind that your project will be successful.