Commercial
Cost and downtime: Commercial damage sites are usually dominated by building damage. Because the building components and equipment are often commodities, replacement may be cheaper than repair. In contrast, there are many specialized commercial operations whose buildings and equipment are very sophisticated. Repair vs. replacement and expediting of the repair is often involved.
Cause: At commercial sites, operating parameters are often not recorded. There usually will be maintenance records, witnesses’ observations, and artifacts that can be used in determining cause.
Anything, any way:
Commercial damage sites we have investigated for cause, estimated and monitored repair costs, and dealt with downtime issues include electrical incidents, fires, explosions, weather-related incidents, impact damage, inadequate design and poor workmanship, and many other causes—both routine and sophisticated.
Examples:
- Financial institutions
- Hotels, motels, resorts, and casinos
- Condominiums and apartment buildings
- Warehouses
- Office buildings and office complexes
- Houses of worship: churches, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, and temples
- Retail operations: Main Street, strip malls, mega-malls
- Medical offices, hospitals, medical research centers
- Agribusiness: onions, walnuts, sugar
- Municipal and state properties, schools, roads and bridges
- Universities
- Research centers