Jordan Craig, P.E.

Experience

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  Monroe & Newell Engineers, Inc.

  Jun 2007 - May 2008

  Design Engineer

  Design of premium wood framed residential condominium resort housing in Ski Resort towns located throughout the Colorado Mountain range.Wood framing design consisted of stud spacing, wall sheathing fastening, shear wall desgin, LVL and glulam beam design.Designed steel beams and columns where required.Used IBC and ASCE to calculate heavy snow loads and drift loading in excess of 100psf.Used Ram Steel for design of continuous steel beams in longer span conditions with bar joists.Foundation design and reactions.Interpreting Architectural drawings and designing with concerns to deflections, various loading at common areas, framing lay out and design for balcony hot tums, etc. Show less

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  Butler Manufacturing (BlueScope Buildings) / HCI Steel Buildings

  Aug 2008 - Sept 2015

  Structural Project Engineer

  Design metal buildings for various purposes including manufacturing, schools, sports facilities, airplane hangars, offices, warehouses. Designed large hot rolled steel clearspan and modular rigid frames, cold form secondary purlins and girts, hot rolled spandrel beams with strict deflection criteria, crane design including jib, top running, and underhung of various sizes including independent crane columns, and wall and roof metal panel cladding.Review projects designed by other engineers under my supervision as sealing engineer. Communicated design suggestions, comments, and punchlist items to engineers working under my supervision.Participated in training new and young engineers. Set project and department schedules and timelines and meeting demanding schedules.Providing project management and overall customer service.Reviewed and interpreted Architectural drawings for building layouts. Worked with owner and customer about resolving framing issues and concerned areas for framing/waterproofing.Using ASCE to calculate environmental loading on building including wind, snow, snow drift, seismic. Used IBC and MBMA (Metal Building Manufactures Association Manual) for design.Reviewed and marked up design drawings for detailing. Worked with detailing on fixing outstanding framing issues.Worked with owners in the field on design solutions for fit up issues.Reviewed details structural part drawings for manufacturing. Show less

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  Armko Industries, Inc.

  Sept 2015 - May 2016

  Engineering Manager/Project Engineer

  Structural design and re-roof consulting for new and existing constructionWaterproofing details for project re-roofingOversee all structural design and managed the drafting departmentReview roofing drawings and specificationsConsulting in allowable design loads for existing structural framing for re-roof applicationProvided customers with plan drawings of roof square footage from satellite imagery

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  French Engineering, LLC

  May 2016 - Apr 2019

  Senior Project Engineer

  Forensic Building Envelope Investigation and Structural Engineering primarily locating point sources of water intrusion of roof and walls assemblies, building envelope waterproofing design, hail and wind damage inspections, investigate improper installation of exterior cladding systems, assess waterproofing of drainage wall systems, compliance with building codes, analyze drawings for design defects, and structural analysis calculations for existing/remedial design. Perform water testing, wind uplift testing, nuclear moisture survey (certified to operate select nuclear devices), selective demolition on exterior cladding to verify installations, roof cores to verify existing construction.Reviewing existing and current building codes for various design purposes.Structural design peer review for Texas Board of Engineers.Writing legal, expert forensic reports exhibiting results and findings from forensic investigations. Writing reports to the Owner for remedial work based on findings from forensic investigation.Review forensic expert reports for legal cases, including but not limited to reviewing photographic evidence, expert opinions, historic weather data, and history of projects.Design, compile drawings, and write specifications for building envelope waterproofing and roof replacement remediation projects on existing buildings, including but not limited to code analysis, design, details, structural framing repair design and details. Remediation project Quality Administration by frequent site visits to observe Contractors' compliance with drawings and specifications, writing owners reports, and compiling photo logs with contract document compliance.Project Management with interaction with Customer, meetings with Customer and Contractor, reviewing project costs, submittals review complying with specifications, shop drawings review, Contractor compliance with drawings and specifications, and project schedule. Review pay applications and change orders. Show less

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  Lerch Bates Inc.

  Apr 2019 - now

  Director

  Pie Consulting & Engineering is now Lerch Bates effective January 2022. After being acquired two years ago, Pie is ecstatic to announce we are now fully integrated as one team under the name and brand of our parent company. Follow the Lerch Bates page for future updates from your trusted team of building enclosure and forensic experts or go to lerchbates.com/news/newlook/ to learn more.