ENVIRONMENTAL  SCIENCE  &  ENERGY,  INC.

Construction  Defects,  Seismic  Hazards,  &  Structural  Integrity  Inspection

 

YOUR SOLUTION FOR GREENER AND SAFER STRUCTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURES

(520) 625-8346

 

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CLIMATIC AND OTHER DATA;  PRECISE, PINPOINT  DATA  INTERPOLATION  TO SPECIFIC LOCATIONS;  ANALYSIS;  HIGH RESOLUTION  DATA  MAPPING

 

CONSTRUCTION  DEFECTS AND SEISMIC & LANDSLIDE  HAZARDS  ANALYSIS,  STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INSPECTION & REINFORCEMENT, REQUIRED ANNUAL RAILROAD BRIDGE INSPECTION

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,  GLOBAL WARMING,  SCIENTIFIC  INSTRUMENTS,  AND  WARNING SYSTEMS

 

FORENSIC DISCOVERY  AND  EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY

 

METEOROLOGY / WEATHER  FORECASTS,  SEASONAL  WEATHER  OUTLOOKS, ALERTS,  CERTIFIED  HAZMAT  TRAINING, CERTIFIED  WEATHER  OBSERVERS

 

RENEWABLE  ENERGY  GENERATION:  WAVE,  TIDAL,  WIND,  SOLAR,  OTHER

 

RESEARCH  &  DEVELOPMENT,  STUDIES, PUBLIC LECTURES,  OTHER  SERVICES

Dams, Spillways, Levees, Canals, and Aqueducts:

Structural Integrity Inspection for Construction Defects, Foundation Failures, and Seismic Hazards Determinations, plus Referrals for Repair,  Reinforcement,  Restoration, and  Reconstruction Services by Civil Engineers and Other Scientists and Engineers

 

Charles B. Pyke, Ph.D., President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of  Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., offers structural integrity inspections for the determination of construction defects, foundation failures, and seismic hazards in structures and facilities listed below.  We also offer referrals for recommended repair, reinforcement, restoration, and reconstruction services for many of the structures found to be defective or in danger of collapse or severe damage in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or adverse event.   In addition, we offer design of new dams and other structures and facilities.

Structures and Facilities:

  • Dams, federal, state, and local, in the United States, plus dams in Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

  • Dam spillways and gates.

  • Hydroelectric power plants - large, mid-size, and small - in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

  • River levees and embankments.

  • River channels.

  • Aqueducts and water transport canals, open and closed.

  • Water supply pipelines and conduits, above and below ground.

  • Sewage pipes and conduits, above and below ground.

  • Roads and railroads built across dams, plus access roads and railroads.  

  • Bridges and tunnels associated with, or built in conjunction with, dam and spillway structures (i.e., bridges carrying access roads and railroads).

  • Water reclamation plants -  in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

  • Other water conservation facilities - in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

  • Water channels, aqueducts, and pipes, leading to and from water reclamation plants.

  • Water supply pipelines and conduits, above and below ground.

  • Sewage pipes and conduits, above and below ground.

  • Public works infrastructure, including underground water-supply pipes and conduits.

  • Public works infrastructure, including underground sewer pipes and conduits.

  • Public works infrastructure, including above-ground water-supply pipes and conduits.

  • Public works infrastructure, including above-ground sewer pipes and conduits.

  • Natural gas pipelines, above and below ground.

  • Other public utility facilities.

The defects and hazards include, but are not limited to:

  • Faulty, shoddy, or generally poor original construction.

  • Undersizing of a dam or spillway that could result in overtopping of the dam in the event of a Probable Maximum Flood.

  • Construction that met building and seismic codes at the time of the original construction, but which fail to meet today's codes, and which could be a hazard to life and property in the future.

  • Construction that met building and seismic codes at the time of the original construction, but which have deteriorated over the years or were damaged or weakened by fire, weather, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, ground subsidence, landslides, avalanches, or blasts (including sonic booms or nearby demolitions). 

  • Foundation failures of dams, spillways, gates, and other structures, resulting from corrosion, earthquakes, subsidence, liquefaction, ground shifts, and/or gradual deterioration of materials from water currents and  weather.   

  • Water seepage through or under a dam or its foundation. 

  • Corrosion, over the years, of road and bridge components associated with, or built in conjunction with, dams.

  • Asbestos that may be present in some structures.

  • Damage caused by terrorist attacks, or hidden damage caused by sabotage or by attempted sabotage that appeared at first to have failed. 

  • Damage resulting from the burrowing of animals

  • Corrosion, over the years, of underground and above-ground natural gas, water supply, and sewer pipes and conduits.

  • Landslides:  threats; slides that have occurred since construction of a structure and may have weakened the structure.

  • Earthquake faults and potential for major shaking or permanent ground deformation that could cause significant or catastrophic dam failure.

  • Earthquake faults and potential for slow creep that could gradually result in distortion or offset of the foundation or a dam, spillway, or levee - resulting in a possible catastrophic failure (such as the Baldwin Hills Dam, Los Angeles, California, December 14, 1963). 

  • Earthquake faults and potential for slow creep that could gradually result in distortion or offset of the foundation or an access road, bridge, or railroad track.

  • Proximity of a structure to earthquake faults and soil vulnerable to magnified shaking.

  • Potential for subsidence of the soil beneath a dam or spillway, including differential subsidence within a structure's footprint.

Services Offered: *

  • Structural integrity inspection of the structure or facility.

  • Construction defects determination.

  • Foundation failure determination

  • Investigation of catastrophic failure or major damage resulting from earthquakes, storms, or human-generated activities (terrorist attacks, sabotage, major accidents, etc.). 

  • Structural analysis for damage, deterioration, or corrosion over the years.

  • Seismic and landslide hazards determination and seismic safety analysis

  • Sizing of new or existing dams and spillways with respect to major storms and floods that could fill the reservoir and generate spillway flow, including Probable Maximum Precipitation and Probable Maximum Flood that must be safely passed through the dam and spillway in order to result in overtopping and possible failure of the dam.

  • Repair of defects.

  • Mitigation, overhaul, or renovation of dam and/or spillway - partial or total.

  • Asbestos removal.

  • Reinforcement of the structure or facility.

  • Restoration or reconstruction of the structure or facility.

  • Protection against probable maximum flood in order to avoid overtopping and failure of dam.

  • Protection against maximum credible earthquake.

  • Protection against maximum credible wind event.

  • Removal of silt and debris from reservoirs.

  • Removal of silt, choking vegetation, natural debris, and man-made refuse  from river and stream bottoms.

  • Demolition or removal of entire dam and spillway structure.

  • Replacement of entire dam and spillway structure.

  • Design and construction of new dams and spillways - U.S. and overseas.

  • Research into improvement in the construction of various dams, spillways, and upstream or downstream river channels and levees..

  • Research into improvement in the construction of various structures or facilities.

* NOTE: Most inspection, evaluation, construction defects determination, seismic hazards determination, structural analysis, foundation failure analysis, seismic safety analysis, and/or other inspection-related services - plus construction, building, demolition, removal, repair, reinforcement, retrofit, overhaul, restoration, reconstruction, rebuilding, enlargement, and/or other building-related construction and remedial services - are referred to, and administered by, other environmental or engineering companies.  Clients are to deal directly and entirely with said referred environmental and/or engineering company or companies for any and all said referred services.  

Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. is not directly involved with any of said referred services. Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. does not manage, supervise, oversee, coordinate, or facilitate any of said referred services.  Environmental Science & Energy, Inc. hereby declares that our corporation is not, and cannot be held,  legally responsible for any of said referred services and that our corporation assumes no liability at any time - past, present, or future - for any  projects, cases, jobs, work, tasks, or other services totally referred to other companies or agencies.

This caveat does not apply to most services offered directly by Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., including our data services, environmental planning and assessment, forensic expert and testimony services, weather forecasting, certified weather observers, certified hazardous materials training, global warming modeling, research and studies, public lectures, scientific software, and scientific documentaries, plus most scientific instrumentation and some of our renewable energy development (not requiring the installation of large hardware items, which are referred to other companies - in which case this caveat does apply). 

 

For more information about these services and other programs:

Telephone:    Environmental Science & Energy, Inc.:  (520) 625-8346,

       cellular (520) 310-9931 or (775) 742-5376.  Alternate (520) 625-8316.

FAX:  Call (520) 625-8346 to obtain fax number.

e-mail:  Call (520) 625-8316 to obtain e-mail address.

Mailing address for Dr. Charles B. Pyke, President & CEO: 

   P. O. Box 1747, Green Valley, AZ  85622-1747

Mailing address for Timothy E. Wright, Chairman of the Board: 

   1222 West, 630 South, Logan, UT  84321.

Billing and payment address:

   P. O. Box 292760, Phelan, CA  92329-2760.

 

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