Our Vision
We provide complete consulting, design, and construction services of the highest quality in the external facade industry. We will be instrumental in the implementation of our client's vision while insuring compliance with the highest quality of technical and performance requirements.
Our Mission
- Facilitating successful designs and implementation through faithful application of technical expertise and experience.
- Insuring the reputation and integrity of our clients by maintaining an objective balance between architectural and technical requirements.
- Providing practical design and construction solutions for all project challenges ranging from the typical and simple to the most unique and difficult.
- Facilitating more efficient means of design implementation.
Our Technical Experience & Standards
Our structural design process ranges from static check of members for simple systems, dynamic elasto-plastic using SDOF for simple beams with dynamic loading, to fully utilized finite element analysis for complex systems.
We have extensive experience with the design, calculation and testing of blast resistant facades, including GSA projects.
We have successfully completed many OSHPD & DSA Projects. For such Projects, the approval process usually goes through more stringent requirements. NS has extensive experience with OSHPD & DSA requirements and criteria as well as inspection and submittal processes. We are aware of the efforts that are required (and must be spent) upfront, so as to minimize delays in the approval process, which in turn will impact installation.
While indeterminate systems subjected to wind load is analyzed with a linear or non-linear static analysis, using elastic material properties. Systems subjected to blast loading utilize a FE model, with non-linear dynamic time-step analysis, using elastic/plastic material properties.
Even for high spans, wide modules, and perforated systems, where high deformation, torsional stability and anchorage stiffness govern the design, a FE model is constructed using a combination of linear beam members and non-linear plate sections, analyzed with fully dynamic procedure with approximated stress-strain curves.
In an effort to optimize the design and reduce the materials used, the stress-time history of a system will pin point where the maximum stress is, and will outline the highly localized stress portion where added stiffness will be required.
Our Values
- Facilitating successful designs and implementation through faithful application of technical expertise and experience.
- Insuring the reputation and integrity of our clients by maintaining an objective balance between architectural and technical requirements.
- Providing practical design and construction solutions for all project challenges ranging from the typical and simple to the most unique and difficult.
- Facilitating more efficient means of design implementation.