STRUCTURAL PLANS,
REVIEWED & SEALED.
You produced the structural package. We put a licensed structural reviewer on it — framing, foundations, connections, calculations — and seal it when it earns the seal.
Structural review and sealing means a professional engineer licensed in the project jurisdiction independently checks your framing, foundations, connections and calculations against the adopted code and standard of care. If the package holds up, the responsible PE signs and seals it. If it doesn't, you get a written correction list — not a vague rejection.
What a structural review actually covers
A structural seal is a licensed engineer taking legal responsibility for the load path of a building. That responsibility is why real review exists. When a structural package comes in, the reviewing PE works through the gravity and lateral systems end to end: how loads are collected, how they travel, and where they land. The reviewer checks the design criteria stated on the drawings against the jurisdiction's adopted code — dead and live loads, wind and seismic design parameters, snow and drift where the climate demands it — and confirms the calculations and the drawings tell the same story.
The review covers foundations and anchorage, framing members and connections, diaphragms and shear walls, and the details where structural packages most often fail: holdowns, drag struts, post-installed anchors, and the interface between the structure and everything attached to it. Where the package includes delegated design — trusses, precast, cold-formed steel, shoring — the reviewer checks the interface criteria the specialty engineer's work has to satisfy.
On the checklist
- Framing plans, sections and connection details
- Foundation plans and soils-report conformance
- Gravity and lateral calculations
- Wind and seismic design criteria vs. the adopted code
- Anchorage, holdowns and diaphragm nailing schedules
- Delegated-design interface criteria (trusses, precast, CFS)
- Existing-structure and addition interfaces
- Code-edition and design-criteria statements on the title sheet
Who sends us structural plans
Most structural packages arrive from people who design well and stamp rarely: architects whose structural consultant is booked out, design-build contractors with in-house drafting, engineers licensed in three states holding a project in a fourth, and owners' teams whose permit deadline outran their sealing capacity. The pattern is the same — the engineering is done or nearly done, and what the project needs is a licensed, accountable review in the jurisdiction where the building will stand.
That is a legitimate and normal way for buildings to get permitted, provided the review is real. A responsible PE cannot seal work they have not reviewed to the standard they would apply to their own design — and our reviewers work to exactly that standard. When the package needs help, you hear it from us in writing, with the specific code basis, while there is still time to fix it.
Corrections we see most
The repeat offenders are consistent: design criteria on the title sheet that don't match the calculations; lateral systems that work in one direction and were never closed in the other; connection details drawn from a catalog without the loads they have to carry; and foundations designed to a soils report nobody attached. None of these are fatal. All of them are cheaper to fix in review than at a permit counter or — worst of all — in the field. A disciplined correction list, returned fast, is the core of what you are buying.
Cost & timeline
Structural review pricing is scoped per package, never guessed from a rate card. The drivers are sheet count and calculation depth, the lateral system's complexity, whether delegated-design interfaces need coordination, and how complete the set is when it arrives. Send the set and you get a written, scoped quote — with the engagement's timeline stated in it — before any review begins.
Every engagement is quoted in writing with its own timeline before work starts — an estimate built from your package's actual scope, stated per engagement rather than promised by slogan. A complete, review-ready set moves first; incomplete sets get a completeness note, so nobody pays to review half a package.