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Facade Assessment

Facades are complex. Our extensive experience with facades of all types and vintages enables efficient and effective evaluation and repair solutions.

Edward Gerns
Principal

Bridge Engineering

Earthquake Engineering

Facade Assessment

Failure and Disaster Response

Historic Preservation

Litigation Consulting

Materials Evaluation and Research

Peer Review and Commissioning

Repair and Rehabilitation

Roofing and Waterproofing

Structural Evaluation

Testing and Instrumentation

Building owners and managers turn to WJE when they need a firm that fully understands the problems associated with their building facade. WJE pioneered the practice of modern facade assessment and repair more than forty years ago. WJE’s work investigating landmark facade failures, including New York City’s Woolworth Building in 1977 and Chicago’s Aon Center in 1988, positioned the firm as a global leader in the field. Today, WJE is recognized as a trusted resource for independent, objective, and technically sound facade assessment and repair/restoration design on both contemporary and historically significant buildings and structures.

One of the unique core strengths WJE brings to all of its work is the technical depth and expertise available from the firm’s materials science group in the Jack R. Janney Technical Center (JTC). Over 50 years of industry-sponsored, leading-edge research and laboratory testing for material durability and performance provides WJE professionals with the in-house resources necessary to take a holistic approach to problem-solving that is critical to developing comprehensive, cost-effective, and technically sound repair and restoration strategies for building facades of any age, material composition, or construction type. The technical depth of the JTC and hands-on approach to problem-solving that all of the company’s professionals take in the field are both hallmarks of WJE, whether we’re working from scaffolding or engaging the services of the professionally certified WJE Difficult Access Team to reach facade and domed surfaces that others consider impossible to reach.

Using state-of-the-art testing equipment and laboratory capabilities, WJE professionals have successfully diagnosed and solved problems in thousands of building facades.

Facade inspections

Water entry and condensation studies

Structural component assessments

Capital reserve/due diligence surveys

Repair, rehabilitation, and recladding design

Peer review and commissioning of new designs

Construction observation and troubleshooting

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