- Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) Panelization Expertise – Are you or your client interested in panelizing your next building project? Let us help you layout the project by recommending framing strategies to keep costs down and minimize constructability issues.
- Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) Building Recommendations – Looking at a CFS building for the first time or wanting to investigate alternate options to the CFS systems you have used in the past? With our extensive experience, ZO Consulting can help you look at the multiple CFS building options so that you can offer the best solutions to your client.
- Exterior Façade Joint Locations - Starting a new building? Let us review your design concepts for exterior façade joint locations to accommodate anticipated building movements and jointing requirements between different trades.
- Building Performance – The building code only provides minimum requirements for life safety specific to structural and fire. But what if you want more? We'll explain the minimum code requirements and what options there are to increase the performance and resiliency of your building.
- Contract Drawing and Specification Review - Sending a project out to bid? Let us review the contract drawings and specifications to make sure the exterior jointing and performance requirements are well-defined and aligned with your desired performance.
- Shop Drawing Review - Reviewing Exterior Building Envelope or Cold-formed steel (CFS) load-bearing shop drawings? Let us review the drawings and let you know if they meet code and are consistent with your design intent. In addition, we can make sure the various subcontractor/trade partner drawings are coordinated with each other, minimizing costs, delays, and time-consuming RFIs.