CTL Engineering has completed our first locally administered transportation (LPA) project providing Construction Administration with huge success. See how we delivered it 2 ½ years early and about a third under budget!
Pollutants and environmental toxins on your property can trigger regulatory fines and endanger people’s health. Moreover, litigation resulting from environmental hazards can be protracted and costly. Thus, if your properties face even a remote likelihood of contact with environmental hazards, you need experts to help you understand what you’re up against. An environmental testing lab […]
A building envelope failure can have drastic consequences, from expensive property damage to fatal injuries. Determining the cause of a failure — whether it’s anything from a foundation failure to a roof collapse – is central to litigation or arbitration cases that address these losses so the at-fault parties are held liable. Building envelope consultants […]
Toxic cleanups can expose property owners to liabilities reaching into the millions of dollars. When people prepare to purchase commercial/industrial real estate, they trust environmental site assessment (ESA) consultants to reveal the environmental risks within the land they’re about to buy. Unfortunately, consultants who conduct ESAs can make expensive mistakes if they’re not thorough enough. […]
The risk of environmental liability can derail the purchase of commercial real estate. So, a commercial property buyer’s due diligence must include an environmental site assessment (ESA) to weigh the threat of dangerous and expensive pollutant cleanups. Over the past three decades, CTL Engineering has conducted ESAs that protected clients from liabilities stretching into the […]
The recent update to the Ohio Building Code requires storm shelters in new K-12 school buildings and many other critical structures that submitted plans after November 1, 2017. Section 423 of the Ohio Building Code now requires storm shelters compliant with ICC 500, the International Code Council’s standard for designing and constructing buildings strong enough […]
Failure analysis begins with a riddle. Why did a product, machine, device, or structure break, collapse, stop working, or otherwise fail to perform its intended function? Answering that question requires careful detective work based on scientific principles, testing, analysis, and substantial forensic engineering experience. Clients trying to solve these riddles have a lot on their […]
Three CTL projects in Columbus, Ohio, illustrate the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, to make building inspections faster, safer, simpler, and less costly. CTL has three FAA-licensed drone pilots on staff to perform a host of inspection duties, primarily supporting our building envelope testing service. Before the emergence of aerial […]
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are becoming a must-have tool for building inspections. While they aren’t a perfect fit for every building inspection task, drones have many advantages for inspecting building exteriors in search of leaks and wear that can lead to costly failures if left unchecked. Advantages of aerial drones in […]
Lawyers and insurance claims professionals inevitably confront accident cases where the cause or liability is unclear. Proving what happened is the job of the accident reconstruction expert, who must have a deft combination of skills in physics, mathematics, kinematics, and human factors to definitively establish an accident’s cause. An accident reconstruction expert is crucial for […]
