Ranson Consultancy Services [RCS] offers comprehensive Structural Audit
We are a structural audit company that provides services to ensure the safety and integrity of buildings and structures. We provide structural audits, which involve inspecting the structure’s framework, including its supports and beams. Our engineers conduct a thorough inspection of your building’s structure, looking for any signs of wear or damage, as well as checking for potential weaknesses in the supporting structure.
RANSON Consultancy’s structural audits of buildings are only performed by licensed structural civil engineers. An average Profile Auditor has more than 5 years of experience in the field, including construction supervision and design.
Our team has extensive experience working on many different types of projects including residential buildings as well as commercial buildings such as offices and warehouses. We also offer structural audits for industrial properties like warehouses and factories so that you can make sure that all areas have been properly assessed before any work starts on them.
Our team has extensive experience working on many different types of projects including residential buildings as well as commercial buildings such as offices and warehouses. We also offer structural audits for industrial properties like warehouses and factories so that you can make sure that all areas have been properly assessed before any work starts on them.
RANSON [RCS] offers structural audits to ensure that your residential, infrastructure, industrial and commercial premises are structurally safe, are in accordance with relevant building codes, and otherwise present no danger to employee life and health.
RANSON [RCS] structural audits are conducted by licensed and highly experienced structural engineers who possess expertise in both design and construction supervision.
Our Audit Protocol Covers:
- Background information/documentation: Detailed building description provision, and verification of structural certifications and construction approvals.
- Load conditions: Floor by floor assessment of load management, identification of ‘at risk’ loads and misuse of the building; application of non-destructive testing (NDT).
- Structural system: Description of structural forms, building foundation system and alteration review.
- Structural defects, damage, distress, deformation or deterioration: Assessment of the foundations, super structure, floors and roof.
- Plan and alignment: Verification in key areas of the factory that dimensions are compliant with the design plan.
- Maintenance and building exposure to aggressive environmental conditions: Evaluation of building maintenance, drainage and exposure to chemicals that could affect structural safety.
- Further structural surveys and checks: Additional assessment of potentially dangerous structural features, such as water tanks, lifts and safety barriers.
- Fire safety: Full verification of fire safety compliance, based on local legal requirements and best practices in the industry.
- Electrical safety: Full verification of electrical safety compliance, based on local legal requirements and best practices in the industry.
Thermographic scan: Verify the temperature of key electrical components to identify potential risks related to overload or loose connections
What You Will Receive Following An Audit:
Post-audit, you will receive a comprehensive structural audit report. This will include a grading of the factory’s safety level, a detailed explanation of any risks present and any necessary supporting photographic evidence. Our auditor will also provide a corrective action plan, based on the findings of the audit, which will detail any steps needed for remediation, such as repairs, retrofitting measures, strengthening of structural elements or replacement of damaged or faulty components.
Follow Up Services:
Beyond the audit, we also help clients to correct potential risks. We can help to establish an improvement program for each project and then follow-up to ensure that the necessary corrective action is taken.
We can also provide other follow-up services, such as:
- Live load analysis through laboratory material testing and/or on-site stress tests.
- Post-earthquake inspection.
- Simulation performance testing.
- Fire safety and electrical plan redesign.
- Review geotechnical reports to support factories on their remediation’s.
- Custom onsite training, e-learning and workshops on structural safety best practices, as well as specific structural safety topics such as load analysis and fire safety. These ultimately help suppliers to achieve structural safety compliance.
NDT Tests & Diagnosis Systems
RCC: Rebound Hammer/ Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity/ Impact Echo Test CAPO/CORE Test\Carbonation/Cover Depth/ Chemical including Chloride, Sulphate, Alkali Silica Reactivity & pH /RCPT/LPR/Half-Cell Potential / Concrete Resistivity/Concrete In-Situ Permeability/Water Permeability Testing
Masonry: Compression-Shear- Tension -Flexural Behaviour and Strength Assessment of Masonry, Deformability Properties in, Brick/Flat Jack Test/ Bed Joint Shear Test/Brick Prism Test /In-Situ Diagonal Shear Test/Binding Mortar
Fire Damaged Assessment, Comparative residual strength loss analysis between fire Damaged & Undamaged section, Quality Audit of Construction (Design Data/In-Situ materials, Vertical Eccentricity & Alignment), Durability Analysis along with Corrosion-Crack Pattern-Depth Assessment, Crack Pattern Measurement, Tensiometer, Crack Till-Tale- Crack Scale, Traffic Volume Survey, Light Weight Deflectometer for Runway and Approach Road RE Wall lateral capacity Assessment, Bearing Condition and Overlay
Condition Survey- Structural Audit-Independent Technical Advice-Fire Damage Assessment
Layout Profiling for Plumbing System/Conduit Pipelines in Existing Building by Thermal Camera & GPR Based Scanner, Section Details of Wall/Floor/Layers/Leaf pattern by Endoscopic Method & Impact Echo Test/Scanning of Reinforcement in Structural Members in Numbers, Size & Cover Depth/Construction & Source of Materials/Assessment of Construction Pattern/Construction Sequence of structure, Scanning of Metallic and Non-metallic in Structural Members in Numbers, Micro-Core for Profiling, Infra-Red Camera for layer conditions, Baroscopic Condition Survey for External Sheathing Condition
Recreation of Architectural and as Built - Structural Drawings for Structure & Its Profiling
Earthquake Resistivity, Fitness Certification for operation and Floor Extension, Vulnerability Analysis, Rapid Seismic Vulnerability, Disaster & Hazard Mapping, Post Disaster Investigation, Collapse Assessment, Performance based Pushover Analysis, Arch & Dome Analysis, Hanger, Pulley and Truss Analysis. Forced Vibration analysis of Building, Capacity of Structure against Thunderstorm and Cyclone, Tunnel and Underground Metro Vibration in Residential over ground area, Loading Capacity of EOT Crane, Chimney, Storage Tank, Silo, Floor and Slab, Feasibility analysis of Solar Panel or external load like AHU, Washer Installation, Machine Foundation & TG foundation Capacity Upgradation Analysis.
Structural Stability Analysis- Safety Assessment - Vibration Impact- Stability – Performance Certification and vetting- Maximum Load Carrying Capacity
Load Rating (Static/Dynamic) for Bridges/ROB/Ramp/Slab/Floor Wind/Thunder Pressure Storm Test for Panel, Floor Load Carrying Capacity by Plate Load Test & Load Rating for Pavement & Runway, Pile Load Test, Pile Depth Analysis, Pile Integrity, Point – UDL Load Test, Load Rating for ROB, Bridge Pavement and Runway, / Two Point –Three Point Load Test.
Load Carrying Capacity Analysis & Load Test (Bridge/Floor/Pile/)
Strengthening Design (FRP Sheet, Steel Plate Jacketing, Steel Angle Jacketing, RCC Jacketing Design, Laminate design) Bearing and Expansion Joint Replacement Design, Floor Strengthening for Heavy Operational Uses, Demolition Plan & Design, Repair Handbook, Enhancement of Performance life after Repair
Cost Statistical for Repairing-Strengthening
Tender Documentation, BOQ and Cost Analysis for repairing work, Complete Repair & Rehabilitation DPR, Tender as Per Client Budget/Durability of Repairing Scheme, Cost Comparative between New Structure & Repair Cost.
Repair-Rehabilitation, Seismic Retrofitting, Periodic and Routine Maintenance Scheme
Detection of Buried Water Logging Body/Water channel/Materials by GPR & Seismic Refraction Test, Geo Technical Investigation for Soil Bearing Capacity, water Table & Soil Liquefaction, Foundation profiling by GPR/ Leakage Detection of Underground Liquid Channel or Pipelines by GPR, Utility – Wire- Pipeline Survey and Contour Mapping, Foundation Profiling, Soil Liquefaction Size. Silt Deposition level, Soil Electrical Resistivity, Under water investigation & Videography.
Under Ground Inspections & Under water Inspections Investigation (Geophysical-Foundation-Archaeological)
Historic Lime Design, Analysis of Compatibility of Modern Repairing Materials with Old Materials Strength Redesign of Jack Arch, RBC, Arch Vault, Brick Cement-lime Roof, Beam or Other Historical Structural Components Pipeline/material layers profiling by Infra-red camera / Masonry leaf profiling by Baroscopic survey.
Structural Conservation Consultancy of Heritage Structures, Residual Life Assessment
Monitoring during the Launching of girder and Box, Hollowness or failure of Pre-Stressing or Post tensioning , Dynamic and Static Load Testing of Rail and Highway Bridge, Strain in cable strayed section , Expansion joint condition and Differential settlement due to traffic impact load, Deflection, Settlement & Crack Monitoring by LVDT, Vibration Analysis, Strain/Stress Measurement, Corrosion Monitoring System/ Temperature & humidity monitoring /moisture ingress monitoring, Moment and torsional force measurement by 3-Axis Accelerometer, Bearing movement, Mode shape of structure under dynamic load, Wireless sensor installations, Inclinometer, Tiltmeter, Electro –Magnetic Sensors, Bearing Sensors, FBG sensor, Load Cell, Temperature and humidity monitoring, Moisture Ingress monitoring, load Intensity measurement
Structural Health Monitoring
