A Damage Assessment Survey will list and estimate the cost of items of the building likely to be harmed by the event, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness. The following systems, if applicable, will be visually inspected for physical damage related to the event: grounds, structure, roof, envelope, paving and curbing, parking, flatwork, plumbing, air conditioning and ventilation, electrical, elevators, interior common elements, and amenities. The impairment is the cause to diminished strength, value, or quality. In addition to the visual evidence, testing would find items without visible damage for limited human vision, but with diminished strength under the surface, such as roof membrane, damproofing, and waterproofing sealants.
Damage Assessment Survey Report will include the following systems, as applicable: grounds, structure, roof, envelope, topography, storm
water drainage, paving and curbing, parking, flatwork, plumbing, air conditioning and ventilation, electrical, elevators, life safety, fire protection, interior common elements, and amenities.
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Property Condition Assessment
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The Property Condition Assessment is used to identify physical deficiencies including conspicuous defects or deferred material maintenance of the property system, components, or equipment. The PCA includes visual inspection while walking the property, interviews with people familiar with the premises, and any documents or drawings that may be available and required. The following systems will be observed as applicable; grounds, structure, roof, envelope, topography, storm water damage, paving and curbing, parking, flatwork, plumbing, air-conditioning and ventilation, electrical, elevators, life safety, fire protection, interior common elements, and amenities.
The Property Condition Report includes the description of the system, condition, deficiencies, suggested remedy, significance of physical deficiency, and opinion of probable cost to remedy broken down by:
1. Immediate cost to repair existing or potential unsafe conditions, building material or fire code violations, or conditions that if left unremedied have the potential to result in or contribute to critical element or system failure within one year. This will most likely result in a significant escalation of its remedial cost.
2. Short term costs to remedy physical deficiencies, such as deferred maintenance that may not warrant immediate attention, but requires repairs or replacement that should be undertaken on a priority basis in addition to routine preventive maintenance.
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A Condition Assessment of Concrete Framing elements will determine the scope of repairs that require immediate action as a result of existing material or potentially unsafe conditions. It will also determine conditions that if not properly repaired will result in critical element, system failure, or leaks. The visual inspection will be performed on the structural areas of concern, including items showing partial degree of distress. Concrete in distress in a building frame may show up in several ways depending on the location, such as checking cracks, crazing cracks. Causes of defects may be included in the chemistry of the concrete, electrochemical currents, stress levels due to environmental and operational loads. The visual observation may not allow to evaluate the causes, and will not discover deficiencies in progress underneath the surface, because of the intrinsic limitation of the human vision. Additional non-destructive spot tests will give more information about the nature of the deficiencies to specify the proper repairs procedure to increase durability of the repairs.
Structural Assessment report in accordance to ANSI/ASCE 11.
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Concrete and Waterproofing Assessment
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A Structure Condition Assessment will determine the scope of repairs that require immediate action as a result of existing material or potentially unsafe conditions. It will also determine conditions that if not properly repaired will result in critical element, system failure, or leaks. The visual inspection will be performed on the structural areas of concern, of structural items showing partial degree of distress to determine any possible causes, and remediation. Causes of concrete defects may be included in the chemistry of the concrete, electrochemical currents, or stress levels due to environmental and operational loads. Visual observation does not guarantee that all of the concrete deficiencies can be found, because of the intrinsic limitation of the human vision; therefore we recommend performing additional non-destructive testing to get more accurate information of the non visible damage.
Structure Condition Report signed and sealed by a Licensed Professional Engineer including description of the deficient items, pictures of typical deficiencies correlated with the report, detailed spreadsheet with quantities to repair by level of concern, sketch with location of the deficient items, and recommendations for repairs. The report would be over twenty pages and will be based on the format recommended by the American Concrete Institute entitled, "Guide for Evaluation of Concrete Structures Prior to Rehabilitation".
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