What would drive your ground-up commercial project to success? Whether you’re planning a new office building, hotel, healthcare facilities, retail space, or any other commercial facility like a multifamily unit or a condo, a high-quality structural engineering & design is most vital. At HAVEN, our team of structural engineers use a collaborative approach to shape your vision. We work closely with you, the architect, the contractor, and your city’s building department to prepare a design that’s code-compliant, sustainable, and planned around your business.

Steel structures are our specialty and integrated services are available including design-build, engineer of record (EOR) services, value engineering and steel connection design. We also provide designs for foundations, reinforced concrete & masonry light gage steel components within the buildings and structures that we engineer.

Our team utilizes state-of-the-art analysis procedures and creates 3-D analysis models for all projects. We are knowledgeable of the latest codes and construction methods. We are responsive throughout all stages of the project and seek to coordinate with other team members to make the project go smoothly in the field.

Steel stair engineering services include a professionally engineered report with calculations and stamped in the province of your project. Stair design includes all steel stair components such as guardrails, handrails and posts, stringers, headers,
treads, pan beams, landings, posts and bracing. Custom components such as removable handrail, safety chain attachments and gates can also be provided as well as other metals such as stainless steel and aluminum. We have designed stringers utilizing C, MC, HSS and plate stringers and treads consisting of light gage steel pans, grating, checker plate and pre-cast concrete.

Our team is well versed in stair engineering and our custom calculation programs check all applicable limits. We verify the deflection of the stair and guard rails according to code requirements (IBC and CISC). Our clients include regional and national steel fabricators, so we have experience will all types of steel stairs and understand the fabrication of this specialty item.

Coordination with the steel fabricator is essential to provide economical designs and superb performance of steel stairs. Our team utilizes 3-D structural analysis models on complicated stairs to assess their structural strength and to ensure the stair performs as expected. HAVEN also provides miscellaneous steel engineering services for steel canopies, platforms, ladders and free-standing stair towers.

For any type of steel stair design, contact HAVEN for efficient designs and reliable schedules to help make your project a success!

We provide engineering support to steel erectors to ensure structures are stable and safe during erection. Our comprehensive analysis looks at the structure during erection for temporary construction and wind loads and provides sequencing or bracing recommendations to help the steel erector keep the structure stable in an efficient manner. We’re well versed in long span truss analysis and stability, including the use of shoring towers and truss lift plans utilizing two heavy-lift cranes.
Our team is responsive and works to provide quick solutions during projects to keep your team moving.
• Site Specific Erection Plans
• Stability Analysis
• Design of Temporary Bracing
• Lifting Plans and Design of Lugs and Spreader Beams
• Truss Evaluation and Reinforcement Design
• Erection Sequencing Plans
• Shoring Towers

We provide concrete tilt-wall panel design services for load bearing and non-load bearing panels. We’re knowledgeable in construction practices with tilt up panels and design accordingly.

Our services include design of panels, details for panel openings, panel attachment details and more. We can analyze existing tilt wall panels for new loading conditions.

Tilt wall panels can be an economical solution for many projects and we’re happy to help with preliminary designs to judge feasibility.

Do you need help from a Structural Engineer, to get to the root of an underlying problem, or investigate the feasibility of making some sort of structural change to a home? Or have you received contradictory advice from different contractors, and you want a professional to properly diagnose the true cause of a problem before proceeding with repairs.
Site visit fees vary depending upon the travel time to the site. Please call us for a quote! A follow up report is always provided for liability reasons, and bears the seal of the Professional Engineer that attended the home. We endeavour to deliver our reports within a few days of our visit.
Structural Consultations are not a substitute for obtaining structural “design” services for a new project; Rather, an on-site Structural Consultation is intended to provide assistance and advice regarding a Structural related issue with a house, and to advise on how to move forward. In some cases, very specific recommendations may be provided, say to address a simple technical issue.
A Structural Consultation Report is a 2-3-page document containing a summary of the observations and recommendations made verbally during our visit.
Please note the following:
1. Our report is always based upon our visual assessment of your problem (i.e.: no physical testing of materials is done as part of this consultation.)
2. We can only report on what we can see or reasonably infer from our site observations. We are not magic…so in some cases, you may need to expose foundation walls, floor joists, beams, and the like, and provide us with access to areas of concern, so that we can offer you our best advice.
3. If you already have construction work in-progress that is being done under a Building Permit, then your first contact should be with whomever designed your project. Check your approved permit drawings for the seal of a Professional Engineer. There may also be seals from an Architect, or a Designer.
4. Construction Site Visits (Site Reviews) are completely different from an on-site Structural Consultation, as described here. A Construction Site Visit is simply a quality control measure done during a construction project, to check that items shown on design drawings have been installed by a Contractor in accordance with the design drawings.