Structural crack inspection as a part time civil engineering job

Описание: Structural crack inspection services can be a part time civil engineering career for aspiring structural consultants and civil engineering consultants.
Many engineers aspire to consult or freelance early in their civil engineering and structural engineering career.
It is very important to diversify your business in order to achieve the revenue target. When we begin as structural engineers or civil engineering consultants, it may be a challenge to establish initially. In that period, civil engineers need to think smartly and diversify the business.
Inspection services can be a major revenue model for civil engineers. In today’s world, many building buyers, especially apartment buyers would prefer to have the building inspected for cracks, quality of construction, quality of structural design and for the snags in construction.
Civil engineers can offer this as a service
Steps
See if structural drawings are available for the building project.
If available, check for the reputation of the consultants and advise the client
Check for quality of drawings and partly reverse engineer the member sizes and rebars
If drawings are not available, do a quick survey and prepare an as built drawing and be sure scheme and member sizes are reasonable
Check for visible cracks and mistakes
Check for possible snags in construction
Prepare a documentation of this and provide the client
This business model can bring in a decent revenue that will allow you to meet the office expenses till you establish as a consultant.
Also, you should be able to diversify and also forecast your revenue. In the video, I have shown a quick method on how to forecast your monthly revenue.
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