High-Rise Building Inspection: High-Rise Building Reinforcement, Office Building Reinforcement, Office Building Seismic Retrofit, Public School Inspection, School Building Seismic Retrofit, Public School Reinforcement, Private School Reinforcement

The recent devastating earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China and the resulting Chile tsunami, along with the 2007 bridge collapse in Minnesota, underscore the need for preventative mitigation and restoration efforts for these countries, and for the many high-rise office buildings, condos, apartment buildings, and other major buildings and complexes in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world that may be in danger of collapse - partial or total - in the event of an earthquake, severe storm, tsunami, or other natural or human-generated stress.

Charles B. Pyke, Ph.D., President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., offers Construction Defects Analysis, Structural Integrity and Structural Safety Inspections, Investigation of Historical Structural Damages, and Seismic & Landslide Hazards Determination, plus Repair, Reinforcement, Strengthening, Refurbishment, Renovation, Restoration, and Reconstruction - perhaps even Demolition and Replacement - of Structures and Facilities listed below, along with the Design of New Structures and Facilities. [Many structures, facilities, and services may apply to earthquake-damaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti and to locations damaged by the earthquake and/or tsunami in Chile.] These include, but are not limited to:

Structures and facilities:

High-rise office buildings and other major business buildings - U.S., Canada, and overseas.
High-rise condominium buildings and other condos - U.S., Canada, and overseas.
High-rise apartment buildings and other major apartment complexes - U.S., Canada, and overseas.
Hotels, motels, and other buildings catering to the traveling public.
Government-subsidized housing buildings - U.S., Canada, and overseas.
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 above-ground infrastructure in the vicinity of high-rise buildings and other major buildings.
Other underground infrastructure near and beneath high-rise buildings and other major buildings.
Numerous other structures and facilities.

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 high-rise office buildings, condos, and apartment complexes, resulting from corrosion, earthquakes, subsidence, liquefaction, ground shifts, tsunamis, and/or gradual deterioration of materials from water currents and weather.
Asbestos that may be present in some structures.
Landslides: threats; slides that have occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the structure.
Damage caused by terrorist attacks, or hidden damage caused by sabotage or by attempted sabotage that appeared at first to have failed.
Corrosion, over the years, of steel structures.
Corrosion, over the years, of underground and above-ground natural gas, water supply, and sewer pipes and conduits.
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:

Structural integrity inspection of the structure or facility.
Construction defects analysis.
Investigation of catastrophic failure or major damage resulting from earthquakes, storms, or human-generated activities (terrorist attacks, sabotage, major accidents, etc.).
Structural analysis for damage, deterioration, or corrosion over the years.
Seismic hazards and seismic safety analysis.
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 school building or other structure or facility.
Replacement of entire school building or other structure or facility.
Design and construction of new high-rise office buildings, condos, and apartment complexes - U.S. and overseas.
Research into improvement in the construction of various high-rise buildings and major building complexes.

For more information about these services and other programs:

Telephone: Environmental Science & Energy, Inc.: (520) 625-8346 or (877) 373-4629,

cellular (520) 310-9931 or (775) 742-5376. Alternate (520) 625-8316.

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:

P. O. Box 1747, Green Valley, AZ 85622-1747

Contract, billing, and payment address:

P. O. Box 292760, Phelan, CA 92329-2760.