Structural Design and Improvements

LeanSteel® is a project delivery method that integrates the steel design and detailing process – avoiding wasted time and lost knowledge, and increasing a project’s speed to market.

For every new building, our goal is to provide our clients with an efficient design while not compromising quality. One method we have found that fosters this is fast-track project scheduling, which reduces project schedules and saves construction cost. Through structural technologies such as sustainable and performance-based design, Degenkolb can produce a design that is more efficiently constructable while ensuring maximum seismic safety on the building.

Green building design requires a reexamination of the entire design, construction and operation of a building in order to optimize each step of its life cycle.  This evaluation demands an integrated team process where the client, architect, engineers, constructors, and building operators work in concert so that each decision is made with the whole building considered as a system. The results of these efforts are not only a sustainable building whose efficiency extends beyond its design into its operation, but also a better coordinated design process which fosters a collaborative construction process.

Our experience ranges from the typical partition, ceiling and furniture anchorage to large MEP equipment upgrades including seismic anchorage and bracing, strengthening of support framing, and major structural alterations. We also enable architecturally significant features such as ornate steel stair structures and the mounting and anchorage of sensitive medical equipment. In all cases we can meet or exceed any established design standard.