In addition to the Engineer of Record, DCI offers services as the Specialty Structural Engineer (SSE), equating to a full picture, vertically integrated project delivery solution. Whether it’s a mass timber feasibility concept, precast structure design, or structural steel detailing, DCI’s fabricator engineering support streamlines the design and construction process – standalone or all-in-one!
Specialty engineers can provide two services: Fabricated Product Engineering Design and Product Detailing. While these services can be provided separately, DCI is able to integrate both into a seamless solution for our clients.
While DCI’s designs include CLT/GLT panels and glulam beams and columns, DCI also specializes in mass timber connections, whether they’re beam to column, steel to timber, timber to CMU and concrete, or custom mass timber architectural stairs. The combination of expertise and CLT-specific modeling software allow DCI’s design team to complete elegantly engineered projects that remain constructible and within budget.
With engineering and detailing support for precast concrete construction, we’ve helped deliver hundreds of successful projects across the country in several markets. These include data centers and cold storage, bridges, parking structures, hermetic facilities, gymnasiums, aquatic centers, distribution centers, industrial plants, sound walls, culverts, retaining structures, and warehouse buildings. As SSE for these projects, we leverage vertical experience to coordinate with suppliers and provide accurate deliverables for our design and construction teams.
DCI offers Structural and Miscellaneous Steel Shop Drawings for new construction and renovation projects and engineering for connection and brace design. We contract directly with AISC Certified Fabrication Facilities across the country on a wide range of projects. With these long-term relationships, we better understand how to approach each individual project, considering cost, schedule, constructability, and fabricator’s preferences.
Our experienced staff, including engineers, detailers and drafters, are familiar with the local codes and standards and have the flexibility to respond to the specific requirements of our Clients.
In addition to our engineering capabilities, DCI’s in-house detailers turn design concepts into deliverables for more accurate, streamlined efforts across the board. Detailing allows for accelerated project schedules, reduced trade discrepancies, dynamic cost schedules, better transparency and quality control, and more controlled connection constructability.
With design staff in both the U.S. and in Chennai, India, DCI has the capability to detail to LOD 400 or greater, allowing for a "second shift" level of work for faster procurement and always represented by US BIM detailers for coordination clarity. With one point of contact across the board, DCI provides clear communication for detailed deliverables.
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