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Enhancing buildings with reliable post-tensioning systems and support. Committed to safety, value, and collaborative project success.

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130 37th St NE Auburn, WA 98002, USA

Fortis Pile

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Service Details

Our Design-Build & Consulting services provide expert guidance throughout the lifecycle of your post-tensioning project — from early design coordination and budget planning to constructability reviews, load path analysis, and onsite support. Whether you’re building new, retrofitting, or resolving design conflicts mid-project, we help reduce risk and move decisions forward with confidence.

Service Benefits

  • Build Smarter:
    Resolve post-tensioning concerns before they become field problems.
  • Field-Tested Insight:
    Backed by 100+ years of hands-on PT experience.
  • Reduce Scope Gaps:
    Bridge communication between designers, GCs, and installers.
  • Code-Compliant Strategy:
    We align all recommendations with PTI and IBC standards.

Experience and Qualifications

With more than 100 years of combined PT field and design experience, our team understands the pressures of both engineering and construction. We’re regularly brought in by engineers, architects, and general contractors to problem-solve PT conflicts, reduce risk, and ensure compliant execution. Whether it’s clarifying tendon placement, planning a retrofit, or navigating PT repair strategy, we bring field-tested clarity when it counts most.

What We Support

  • New PT system design reviews

  • Budget estimating and constructability planning

  • Load path and slab behavior consultation

  • Shoring-free retrofit strategy development

  • Remote and onsite meetings with your team

  • Code compliance and PTI-based best practices

Consulting FAQs

We support new construction, slab retrofits, PT layout changes, barrier cable projects, and repairs — working directly with engineers, contractors, and owners.

No. We don’t replace your EOR — we support them by providing field-proven insight and helping translate design intent into safe, buildable action.

Our recommendations come from experience on active PT projects, not theory. We combine engineering logic with construction reality to solve real-world problems.

Yes — this is one of our specialties. We assist in planning de-tensioning, tendon relocation, slab openings, and anchorage modifications that meet code without excessive shoring or rework.

Yes. We offer phone, video, and document-based reviews — as well as onsite walkthroughs when needed.