Process
How We Engineer true

Built on a foundation of building knowledge and experience, we start all partnerships with our TRUE process. This avoids conservative assumptions and overdesign — saving you time and money.

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Intelligent Design

Engineered TRUE to you… we deliver what you need.
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CAD Modeling

Accurate, considerate, and the right approach for success.
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Engineering Software

AWS created the industry leading software, CBeam / MCAL.
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Vision

Discovering your design concepts, parameters, and project needs
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Validation

Quick-turn confirmation that your systems, concepts.
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Design

TRUE to what you need based on feasible and economical solutions
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Optimize

Identify ways to save cost and time in the field with smart detailing.
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Solutions

Present and deliver easy-to-read design analysis, performance reports.
Solutions
Consulting and Engineering Solutions
Another set of eyes on your project can prove invaluable. Whether it is a review, further development, a load study or a consult on a specialty glass structure, AWS is here for you.
Third party peer reviews
Custom system design
Proposal / tender submittals
Schematic designs
Design development
Specification review
Imposed load studies
Specialty glass structures

TRUE to What You Need

Your project doesn’t begin with a product but with an idea, a sketch, and critical thinking from our expert team. We collaborate with your team throughout the entire project, ensuring that we deliver an efficient, economical solution that is specific to you.
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Engineering Services
Engineered for Elegance

Through rigorous analysis and an unrelenting drive towards perfection, our glass and framing designs provide structure, safety and elegance for any project.

Specialty Product

Design for skylights, louvers, sunscreens, canopies, and other architectural appendages.
Glazing Blast Analysis

WINGARD LE, with dynamic SDOF and/or static equivalent methods to determine the response of glazing assemblies.
Light Gage Metal

Designed for adequate support of window surrounds and other supporting structure for panel, tile and stone veneer.
Glass

Design for monolithic, multilayer and laminated plates, for structural stacked / suspended wall, glass floors / wind screens handrails / guardrails.
Natural Stone

Thin anchored veneer designed with statistical methods and FEM modeling to achieve safe and reliable use of natural materials.
Concrete Inserts + Embeds

Imposed load studies and appropriate design for efficient development of cast in place anchor devices.
Curtainwall Framing

Associated anchorage/support assemblies.
Structural Steel

Utilized external and internal of all glazing assemblies.
Code Evaluation

Determine applicable code imposed wind, seismic, dead, live loads as well as inner story drift requirements.