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Transform Your Home With An Outdoor Pavilion 

Transform Your Home With An Outdoor Pavilion 

Outdoor pavilions are a major home renovation trend recently. These types of structures transform your outdoor space and provide you and your family with a sheltered area to entertain guests. It’s also true that an outdoor kitchen can add serious value to your home!...

Case Study: Leaking Roof or Humid Attic?

Case Study: Leaking Roof or Humid Attic?

The Issue Axiom Structures was called out to investigate a single-family residence for possible water damage to structural members of the roof.  The client recently had their roof replaced. At the same time, a window contractor replaced a large window along the...

How Is Concrete Checked for Damage?

How Is Concrete Checked for Damage?

What factors can cause damage to concrete? The primary causes of damage to concrete, at least in South Florida, are changes in temperature and moisture (excluding some other issue like settlement). Concrete is porous, meaning it is not waterproof, and has many tiny...

How Will a Global Pandemic Change the Future of Engineering?

How Will a Global Pandemic Change the Future of Engineering?

Weddings over Skype, facetiming into a meeting, wearing a mask to walk to your mailbox... If you are lucky, these are the most notable ways that COVID-19 has changed your life. Around the world, however, more than just lives are changing. Society is adapting the ways...

Structural Wood Repairs for Damaged Members

Structural Wood Repairs for Damaged Members

During visual inspections of structural elements in a building, the wood framing is usually investigated to check for splitting, splintering, and other indications that wood structural repairs are needed. Our office also utilizes a metal sounding bar to determine if...

The Big Apple vs. Big Hurricane Sandy

The Big Apple vs. Big Hurricane Sandy

This morning, after reviewing the damage we witnessed yesterday, we set out in the cold crisp air to provide more hurricane damage assessments, but this time we’d be right in the Big Apple. We started in Rockaway Park, NY, where the house we inspected again appeared...