1CSDesign

Provides comprehensive engineering design for residential and commercial buildings across various material types, ensuring cost-effective, high-performing, and sustainable solutions that satisfy local building permit requirements.

• Residential and Commercial Building Design

  Delivers custom engineering solutions tailored for new builds and renovations of residential and commercial properties.

• Structural Material Engineering

  Applies expertise across timber, steel, reinforced concrete, concrete masonry units (CMU), cold-formed steel, and composite structures.

• Building Permit Engineering Plan Sets

  Prepares and delivers complete, code-compliant engineering plan sets for smooth building permit approval by local authorities.

Delivers earthquake-resistant structural analysis and wind load assessments to maximize stability and safety, utilizing performance-based approaches for high-risk zones to optimize resilience.

• Earthquake-Resistant Design

  Designs structures in strict compliance with applicable seismic codes and standards to withstand lateral earthquake forces.

• Wind Load Assessment

  Conducts comprehensive wind load evaluations to ensure long-term structural stability under high-velocity wind conditions.

• Performance-Based Structural Engineering

  Utilizes advanced performance-based design techniques tailored for high seismic and wind hazard zones to maximize safety and reliability.

Evaluates design alternatives through thorough cost-benefit analyses, optimizing structural systems to achieve a balance of safety, structural performance, and cost-effectiveness.

• Cost-Benefit Analysis

  Performs in-depth analyses to evaluate alternative systems and select the most economical, high-performing engineering solutions.

• Structural System Optimization

  Refines and optimizes structural frameworks to balance safety, constructability, material efficiency, and performance.

Specifies appropriate mechanical and adhesive anchor types for MEP units and non-structural components, verifying minimum embedment depths and edge distances to prevent structural breakout.

• Non-Structural Component Anchoring

  Selects and designs mechanical and adhesive anchor systems along with material specifications for MEP units and other non-structural building components.

• Embedment and Edge Distance Verification

  Calculates minimum embedment depths and edge distances to prevent concrete breakout, pullout, or shear failures in accordance with building codes.