The Monthly Newsletter

This is a portfolio sample. At the end of each month, that month’s four articles are synthesized into a short digest and sent to the client’s list in the client’s voice. The firm and sender below are fictional placeholders. Two of the four pieces it recaps are the structural articles elsewhere in this portfolio; the other two represent a typical month’s remaining output.

Subject: What a building hides

This month’s pieces look like four different subjects, but they are one. Each is about the same gap: the distance between what a building appears to be and what it actually is. A renovation that looks straightforward. A listing that looks like a deal. A bid that looks like savings. A crack that looks like nothing. Most of my job is seeing across that gap before it becomes expensive. Here is the month.

What the Drawings Don’t Show
The drawings a building comes with describe how it was designed, not how it was altered over the decades since. The costliest surprises in a renovation are the ones no one wrote down.

What to Check Before You Buy a Building
A short list of what to look at before you commit, from the foundation to the permit timeline. Almost everything that goes wrong on these projects was knowable before anyone signed.

Why the Cheapest Structural Option Costs the Most
The lowest bid often wins by quietly removing the margin you cannot see: redundancy, durability, the allowance for the unexpected. What reads as savings on paper is usually a cost moved to later, with interest.

What a Crack in the Wall Is Telling You
Most cracks are cosmetic. A few are the building telling you something is moving. The difference is not always visible to the eye, and knowing which is which is the entire reason to ask before you patch over it.

If any of this raised a question about a building you are working on, reply to this note. I read every one.

Tom Hadley, PE
Hadley Structural Engineering

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