Office & Retail Renovation in Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills office and shop renovations where an old footing or hidden steel found during demolition is engineered into the plan. Aspenwell Construction.
Cutting the slab for a new post footing in a Woodland Hills office sometimes exposes an older footing nobody drew. It may be left from a wall removed long ago, and it can sit exactly where the new post was meant to land. That discovery reshapes the plan, and the engineer may reuse it, widen it, or shift the post onto clean, undisturbed soil beside it.
Other things a slab and wall can hide
Demolition also turns up conditions the drawings never showed. A beam might rest on a post with no connector, a wall might hold a buried steel column, or a slab might be thinner than the plans claim. Electrical conduit and plumbing can run through the very spot chosen for a footing. Each finding goes to the engineer with photos and measurements, and the revised detail is added to the permit set as a plan revision before that work continues. Other areas can proceed while a revision is reviewed.
How a finding changes the quote
The written quote lists the structural items and what the engineer's design assumes, such as footing size and slab thickness. When the opened building differs, the change is priced in writing and the owner approves it before that work proceeds. A larger finding, such as a full new footing or a steel post, comes with its own drawing and inspection. Scanning the slab before demolition, and opening a few test spots in walls, cuts down on how much is learned late in the job.
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If the wall above allows, yes. The engineer designs the header or frame, adds or confirms a footing at both posts and restores whatever bracing the wall supplied. Hidden conditions found during demolition, such as an old footing or a buried column, are folded into that design before glass goes in.
Staying open is workable for most renovations. Phases close off one area at a time behind dust walls, exits and the entry stay usable, and loud cutting is moved to closed hours. A surprise found under the slab can shift a phase, and we tell you before the schedule changes.
We file it with LADBS, the reviewing agency for Woodland Hills, and stay on it through final: drawings, structural calculations, revisions for anything found during demolition, plan check answers and inspections. Landlord and sign approvals run alongside.
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Describe the house and what it needs. We look at the structure first and send the quote in writing.