Residential Engineering Services List:
Foresight Engineering has capabilities to design your next residential project. Our previous projects include small lakeside camp upgrades to multi-million dollar homes to multi-story residential housing.
No project is too big or too small; Foresight Engineering is available for something as simple as a residential property survey or for something as advanced as a low-rise multi-housing complex. The following is a list of the typical residential services we provide:
- Heat loss using infrared thermal imaging camera
- Home inspections and pre-purchase evaluations
- Floor plans to comply with 101 Life Safe Code (NFPA)
- Full 3D drafting with isometric views
- 3D modeling and color renderings
- High-end home design
- Passive solar design using Energy 10 software
- Storm water permitting (1 Acre disturbed)
- Site location permitting (3 Acre impervious)
- Built-up, single ply, and shingle roofing systems
- Insulation designed to prevent interior condensation
- Subdivision design, which includes roadway, grading, stormwater, water, fire protection, and sanitary sewer
- Stormwater detention basins, both existing and new, using HydroCAD software
- Stormwater quality design
- Cost estimating
- Residential oil tank ultrasonic thickness testing
- Concrete, steel, aluminum, masonry, and wood design
- Retaining walls and foundation design
- Designed loads per ASCE-7 or applicable specifications
- Wind and seismic lateral force resisting systems
Alternative Energy Design
- Passive solar
- Straw bale homes
- Super insulated buildings
- Green roofs
- Wind power
- Solar power
- Alternatives cost analysis
