01
Design assessment
A Design Review / Risk Assessment is the foundation of the MI&S services and involves a design drawing review and a microclimate analysis to assess the building or structure’s design and site surroundings in relation to the location’s long-term historical meteorological conditions.
The Design Review / Risk Assessment is the first part of our full-scope service, summarized below, which includes:
- Consultation
- Recommendations
- Reporting
- Detailed Mitigation Development/Design Assist/Construction Administration Support
- Winter Operational Guidelines services summarized below
Additional Services include:
- Performance Mock-Up Testing
- Winter Operational Guidelines Instruction
02
Consultation
We work diligently with the design teams and/or ownership to determine the most appropriate project specific risk reduction strategies before issuing reports.
03
Recommendations
We work together with the client to recommend customized and detailed recommendations that are effective, practical, economical and aesthetically acceptable. The recommendations are based on a balanced approach that takes into account design phase and the required operational management procedures.
04
Reporting
Our reports are issued in a draft and if requested confidential format as we understand that the identification of risk and hazard for a project can be is a sensitive issue. All of our reports include the documentation of methodology, analysis and review or assessment results, as well as the detailed recommendations for implementation into the design.
05
Winter Operational Guidelines
We develop a well-established and proven package of project specific guidelines that inform, educate and instruct the client and operations staff of the actions required to establish safe winter operational procedures for the completed building. This step includes advising on pre-winter preparedness, winter storm action planning, winter observations and inspections.
- Variables of precipitation type (i.e. snow, freezing rain, mist, high elevation cloud for tall buildings, wind drifting for buildings with large roofs)
- Severity and frequency (i.e. an annual occurrence snowfall comparted to a 1 in 100 year snow event with multiple types of precipitation over multiple days)
- Wind (i.e. direction blowing from onto buildings/structures, drifting, sustained speeds and gusts, turbulence, etc.)
- Solar/diurnal air temperature effects (i.e. acting on snow accumulations to melt and freeze into more hazardous ice and icicles)
- Weather events leading up to and following a winter event (i.e. previous existing ice and snow on surfaces or extended cold temperatures after an event to extend the life and therefore transformation possibilities of accumulated ice and snow before it can melt completely)
- Surface properties (i.e. thermal profile, shape, roughness, colour, etc.), make the exact prediction of winter performance impossible.
AND OUR PROCESS ARE THE RIGHT ONES
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AND OUR PROCESS ARE THE RIGHT ONES
FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT?
