PE Square Engineering

We are very sorry you feel this way. Normally we adjust to the different architectural requirements. Especially at a historic location. The plans should have been reviewed and commented on prior to construction. We have changed our plans many times to accommodate our customers.

Disappointed with quality and service of work.
We were building an addition onto an historic pier and beam home and wanted the addition to still use pier/​beam, but to use sub-​grade reinforced concrete blocks. PE Square put forth their design which was fine with one glaring exception:” they insisted on tying the blocks to the living structure with tie straps that were to be screwed into the exterior face of the blocks.
Standard building convention uses such straps, but integrates them into the blocks for a more secure setting as well as more aesthetic as the straps are places on the inner face of the blocks.
When requested of PE Square to revisit this design, they responded simply «We have reviewed the plans and we are not planning on making any changes to the drawings. Submit the plans as engineered… We are the engineers of record and that is our call.»
Our builder had some choice words, but we were on a time crunch and proceeded according to the plans we had.
Now we have ugly steel straps facing out from our foundation. Some bricks cracked (though still structurally sound) from the impact drilling of the mounting screws, making for even uglier facades. The addition still won’t blow away in a hurricane, but we are left feeling that PE Square’s priority is exclusively the robustness of a structure with no appreciation of actual build quality or appearance.
They are probably perfectly fine for slab homes, but I would avoid for anything pier-​beam