Wheaton & Sprague Engineering Inc.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FOR THE BUILDING ENVELOPE

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Wheaton Sprague Building Envelope is an international exterior cladding / curtain wall design engineering consultant.

We provide the following structural engineering services for the exterior cladding components of a building, and have Professional Engineering registrations in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Wheaton Sprague provides S.E. services in Illinois, and has a partnership for P. Eng services in Canada.

At Wheaton Sprague, our brand is Creating Structure - for the project and for the client. Many firms don't design. They just calc what is shown. We work to solve problems with a goal of client satisfaction stemming from consistent materials cost savings on projects.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SERVICES:

  • Design Criteria 
  • Windloads / Snowloads 
  • Seismic Load
  • Blast Analysis & Design
  • Thermal Analysis


CURTAIN WALL ENGINEERING:

  • Vertical Mullions
  • Horizontal Mullions
  • Anchors
  • Embeds / Inserts
  • Specialty Components


PANEL FACADE:

  • Panel Analysis- Composite material, solid sheet and perforated
  • Panel Connections
  • Panel Support Structure


STONE FACADE:

  • Stone Analysis
  • Stone Attachments
  • Backup Structure
  • Terra Cotta

Dimensional Stone and Stone Facade;  Structural Engineering, System Design, Consulting, Shop Drawings, Shop tickets for:   

  • Exterior and Interior Stone; Dimensional Stone, Handset Stone, Stone veneer
  • Stone System Back-Up Structure; Steel, Strut, Aluminum, Truss Stone System Anchorage-split tails, pins, dowels, ferrule inserts, extrusions, epoxy
  • Complete stone cladding system engineering, design, consulting, detailing.


SKYLIGHT

  • Point Supported Glass
  • Unitized 
  • Stick


SPECIAL SERVICES OR INDIVIDUAL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

  • Windload Analysis
  • Seismic Analysis
  • Code Consultation
  • Development of System Capacity Charts and Graphs
  • Curtainwall Systems Investigation and Selection
  • Development of Computer-based applications for Curtainwall Structures
  • Review of Client Structural Calculations
  • Review of Client Shop Drawings
  • Preliminary Review - Value Engineering
  • Review of Stone Strength and Stone Selection
  • Field Troubleshooting
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Blast Analysis

ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS:

  • Sunshades
  • Louvers
  • Solar Panels
  • Guard & Handrails
  • Glass Components
  • Glass Canopies
  • Secondary Steel Structure


Additional services are available upon request

Creating Structure
1100 Campus Drive, Suite 200 Stow Ohio, 44224-1756
Tel: 330.923.5560 Fax: 330.923.5569