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Have TDI work for you. Get more Jobs. Make more profit.
TDI is a structural engineering firm that specializes in Light Gauge design and
construction.
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TDI has extensive knowledge and experience with many different types of light gauge
projects:
- Hotels
- Barracks - example
- Single and multi story storage facilities
- Office building
- Warehouses
- Combat Operations Facilities (COFs) - example
- Composite panels, light gauge with concrete face
- Schools and Daycares
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As part of your subcontractor team TDI offers a variety of services to match your
needs.
TDI tailors the level of detail to your preferences and job requirements.
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If you are the general contractor or have teamed with a general contractor to bid
a design-build project, TDI can work as part of the pre-bid design team. TDI has
extensive knowledge and experience with the design of foundations, structural steel,
concrete, etc. in addition to extensive experience with light gauge.
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Why team with TDI?
TDI can provide a quick and accurate preliminary design that will allow you to reduce
your bid amount. If a project is design-build why bid the plans when they are overly
conservative? Your competitors aren’t. Many engineers of record don’t fully understand
light gauge design or detailing and so drawings that the general contractor puts
out for bid can be value engineered. We evaluate each project and find ways to reduce
the total project cost so that our team is the winning team. We use our knowledge
and experience to help you provide a more accurate cost estimate with less variance
from final design. By having a TDI preliminary design you will be able to provide
the general contractor with a secondary bid based on a less conservative design.
With TDI working for you, you will be the low bidder more often, without lowering
your margin.
TDI will establish a relationship with you and work to reduce your construction
costs. TDI is constantly using the field experience of its clients to update details
to reduce the total material, labor and time costs. As we work on more projects
together we will help you realize greater efficiency and avoid costly details.
TDI has engineers that are excellent at communicating to all parties. We are personable
and are conscious of the relationships between all parties. You don’t need an engineer
on your team that creates friction with the Engineer of Record or with the Corps
of Engineers or similar jurisdictional authority. You need an engineer that pushes
your case firmly while not destroying relationships that you have cultivated.
TDI answers questions directly. If we don’t have an answer we quickly research the
issue and provide a practical and cost conscious answer; not just something that
works, but something that works and does not cost a fortune.
TDI doesn't supply materials and therefore has no incentive to specify expensive
products or overdesign corrections. If you are currently using Clark, Dietrich, or similar
for design services, hire TDI to find out how much you can save. Hire someone that
has your interests in mind.
You may feel that your current engineering solution is able to cover the above items,
in which case TDI's final benefit comes into play. TDI provides great service for
a great value.
Call or e-mail TDI to request a proposal for your next project and to find out what services
you have been missing.
Testimonials:
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TDI helps secure work:
TDI provides professional services that are second to none. We have had the opportunity
to participate in design assist projects throughout the Southwestern United States
and with TDI on board as a reputable and proven engineering firm we have been able
to establish the DI/TDI team as a formidable “been there done that” team.
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- Drew Hawley, Estimator / Project Manager, Diversified Interiors, Inc.
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TDI helps increase profitability:
Working with TDI has increased profitability on both design assist and hard bid
jobs because of TDI’s willingness to go the extra mile to find out what both meets
the owner’s criteria while at the same time allowing us to possibly steer design
in areas that will afford us as the contractor a competitive advantage.
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- Drew Hawley, Estimator / Project Manager, Diversified Interiors, Inc.
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TDI is on your side:
TDI’s response time is first class and second to none. You seldom deal with organizations
that literally drop everything they are doing to make sure their client is taking
care of.
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- Drew Hawley, Estimator / Project Manager, Diversified Interiors, Inc.
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TDI finds answers:
Several of the jobs we have had the opportunity to work on in the past few years
have incorporated several different cladding systems into one finished product which
has made for some pretty significant challenges in getting everything to “work”
right. TDI has always stepped up in the most professional manner and provided not
only effective but cost savings measures when confronted with numerous field corrections
that invariably happen in the field.
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- Drew Hawley, Estimator / Project Manager, Diversified Interiors, Inc.
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Examples of how TDI can make the difference:
A nationally known general contract on a military design-build project has been
awarded the job but is shopping the light gauge framing. You know you are competing
against 1 or 2 other light gauge contractors. How do you get the job? By having
TDI review the engineer of record drawings you find out that the openings with glass
are over engineered for blast and you can eliminates one of the two heavy studs
and associated connections at each side of every window. Your bid to the contractor
is one number for the provided drawings and a reduced number for the TDI redesign.
You aren’t the low bidder on the provided set of drawings but your bid based on
the TDI design is the lowest. The GC gives you the contract because ultimately the
GC wants to make the most money possible.
You have an established relationship with a general contractor and you have an agreed
on price for a job. By having TDI value engineer the drawings you reduce the gauge
of the studs and number of fasteners in each connection. Your savings are significantly
greater than TDI’s engineering fees, resulting in increased profit.
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Texas Design Interests, LLC
6001 W. William Cannon, Building 2, Suite 203C
Austin, TX 78749
phone: (512) 301-3389
fax: (512) 301-3348
e-mail:
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