Technology
Cost and downtime: Technological damage sites are usually knowledge-based in that the buildings and equipment are very sophisticated. There is often a balance between the value of the building and the equipment. Either or both may dominate the repair cost and duration. Repair costs usually involve state-of-the-art processes. Repair expediting concepts are similar to heavy commercial and manufacturing situations.
Cause: Cause investigations usually benefit from the extensive recording of the environmental conditions and operations.
Anything, any way:
Technological sites we have investigated for cause, estimated and monitored repair costs, and dealt with downtime issues have involved fire, explosions, electrical incidents, weather-related incidents, inadequate design and poor workmanship, hazardous material contamination, clean room intrusions, etc.
Examples:
- Research and university facilities...
- Hospitals and medical research facilities...
- Clean room manufacturing: pharmaceueticals, computers...
- Green construction and repairs...
- Agribusiness, processing plants, and commodity storage...
- Robotic assembly lines
- Plasma cutting equipment