SIRS - What Happens After the Study

A Structural Integrity Reserve Study sets out the components a building must reserve for and what they will cost. It is a funding document. The repair still has to be scoped, bid and built - and the numbers in a reserve study are planning figures, not construction bids.

Turning a reserve line into a real number

A study might carry a line for concrete restoration based on a general allowance. What that figure actually costs on your building depends on how much deterioration is really there, which nobody knows until the engineer inspects and, in truth, until the surface comes off.

Sequencing the work against the funding

Where funding is phased, the work can usually be phased with it - by elevation, by stack, or worst-first on the engineer's priority. Structural findings and anything post-tensioned go first.

Licensed and permitted. Work is performed under Florida Certified General Contractor licence CGC #1540717, permitted and inspected.

Questions we get asked

Our SIRS number and our contractor bids are miles apart. Why?

A reserve study uses planning allowances across a class of building. A bid prices your building's actual deterioration, access and phasing. They are not the same exercise and should not be expected to match.

Can the work be split across budget years?

Often, yes - unless the engineer has flagged something as an immediate life-safety item, in which case it goes first regardless of the budget.

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