Facilities Preservation
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Our Facilities Preservation group is highly diversified and offers a wide range of services, including bridge structures, high performance coatings on concrete, and building envelope consulting. Our scientific, professional, and comprehensive approach delivers effective and practical solutions tailored to a variety of unique clients. Our group consists of highly qualified, certified (AMPP), and accredited professionals with extensive experience, enabling us to provide premium consultation, investigation, testing, planning and design, and failure analysis services.
Some areas of expertise includes:
- Material selection and paint system coating condition assessments
- It is our duty to select and use the proper sealant materials to best preserve the structure.
- Forensic investigation and failure analysis
- Our team conducts thorough investigations and laboratory testing of defective wall and bridge conditions in hopes of preventing future coating system failures.
- Existing structure evaluation and remediation system design
- We assess the condition of the structure in depth and trace previous issues to avoid additional costly repairs, environmental complications, or safety concerns in the future.
- Water intrusion investigation, testing, and mitigation
- Our group has the knowledge to use low-maintenance coatings, avoiding accelerated water intrusion deterioration and potential indoor air quality issues. This practice typically encompasses the entire “building envelope” and includes windows, window systems (openings in general), deck membranes (i.e. traffic coatings), expansion joints and misc. wall penetrations.
- AMPP QP 5 Certified Inspection Services
- Our highly-skilled group is qualified to perform QP 5 inspections for the high-performance coating and lining industry worldwide. This prestigious accreditation ensures that we adhere to the industry’s highest quality standards, verifying rigorous inspection practices, and procedural excellence.
Senior Staff
Kevin Schweikhart
Facilities Preservation Group Leader
Kevin Schweikhart
Facilities Preservation Group Leader
Areas of Expertise:
FDOT steel bridge structural paint rehabilitation including pre-design condition assessments and technical design experience. Consulting related to building envelope restoration, new construction and Quality Assurance (QA) related to waterproofing and protective finishes.
Kevin is a Florida native from Tampa. When he’s not working, he is playing guitar or enjoying his backyard lake (boating, canoeing or paddle boarding).
David Eggleston
Senior Project Manager
David Eggleston
Senior Project Manager
Areas of Expertise:
High Performance Coatings (bridges) and Waterproofing (multifamily housing “apartments”)
After over 45 years in Florida, Dave now considers himself a Floridian. Favorite indoor leisure activities include watching college football during the fall, reading books and cooking. Favorite outdoor activities include hunting, fishing, working on older cars (pre-1970’s). His first car was a 1964 Mustang, and then he caught the Mustang bug.
Russell Stauffer, PE
Chief Engineer
Russell Stauffer, PE
Chief Engineer
Areas of Expertise:
Technical QA/QC Review
While not a native Floridian, Russ has lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1977, splitting his time between his permanent home in Clearwater and, hopefully someday, his ‘retirement’ condo on Sand Key. He spends his leisure time with his wife and grandson, enjoying his music collection and broadcasts, which range from opera to classic rock, Leo Kottke to classical, and even calliope music.
Jason Luchtenburg
Senior Building Envelope Technician
Jason Luchtenburg
Senior Building Envelope Technician
Areas of Expertise:
Waterproofing consulting and problem solving, including onsite CEI QA and testing to assure projects are built or rehabbed in accordance with project documentations.
Florida transplant, Midwest native who finds himself fishing at Honeymoon Island on his paddle board or mechanical work on cars when he is not traveling and meeting clients for construction projects.
Mark McCarthy
Senior Coatings Inspector
Mark McCarthy
Senior Coatings Inspector
Areas of Expertise:
Industrial Coatings Consultant/Inspector for FDOT, Turnpike, Various Counties, Cities and Municipalities
Mark is a Florida native and enjoys riding motorcycles, listening to hard rock, and traveling during the off season. Also, building computers or retro-gaming machines, absorbing audiobooks, and arguing with podcasters contribute to his pastime.