Terms of service

We are not currently offering or performing engineering services through this site. Firm registration pending with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Until that registration is active, this site collects waitlist enquiries only. Nothing on it is an offer to perform engineering work, no submission creates an engagement, and no fee is charged or owed.

The sections below describe how the service will operate once it opens, so that you can read them before you commit to anything.

You send a plan set. A Professional Engineer licensed in Texas reviews it against the applicable code and the loads and conditions the structure will see, and applies a seal when the plans meet the standard. When they do not, you receive a written list of what needs to change and why.

A seal is never sold separately from the review. A Texas Professional Engineer may only seal work they performed or reviewed and are willing to take responsibility for. We will not seal drawings an engineer has not examined, and no request, deadline, or fee changes that.

A seal covers the engineering judgement on the sealed drawings: that the design shown meets the applicable code and standards for the loads and conditions stated on those drawings.

It does not cover any of the following.

Construction, workmanship, or materials. The seal is on a design, not on a building. We are not responsible for work built differently from the sealed set.

Conditions we were not shown. Reviews rest on the information you provide, including existing conditions, soil data, and product data. If that information is wrong or incomplete, the conclusions drawn from it may be too.

Approval by anybody else. Permits are issued by the local building official, who has independent authority and applies local amendments. We do not guarantee that any plan set will be approved. If a reviewer raises a comment on the engineering, we respond to it.

Inspection of built work, unless inspection is the service you asked for and an engineer attended.

Work is quoted as a flat fee based on what you describe and what the drawings show. The quote is agreed before an engineer begins. If the scope turns out to be materially different from what was described, we requote and you decide whether to proceed.

One round of revisions on a set we reviewed is included. Revisions are a normal outcome of engineering review. Redesign, a change of scope, or a new structure is new work and is quoted separately.

We may decline any job. In particular we decline work outside the competence of our engineers, because accepting it would itself be a violation of professional practice rules.

Any turnaround stated on this site is indicative. The turnaround that binds us is the one given in writing when a job is accepted. Rush handling is optional, priced separately, and agreed in advance.

Fees are payable as set out in the quote or, for account holders, under the account terms agreed with you. Sealed drawings are released on payment unless your account terms say otherwise.

You keep ownership of the drawings and information you send us, and you confirm you have the right to send them. We keep ownership of our own work product, calculations, and methods. You receive a licence to use the sealed set for the project it was prepared for.

A sealed set is prepared for one project at one location. Reusing it on a different site, a different structure, or a different project is not permitted and is unsafe. Altering a sealed drawing after it leaves us voids the seal and, under Texas law, may be an offence.

We treat your drawings and project information as confidential. See the privacy policy for how they are stored and how long they are kept.

To the fullest extent permitted by Texas law, our total liability arising out of any engagement is limited to the fees paid for that engagement, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, including lost profit, delay costs, or lost opportunity.

Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing limits the professional responsibility a licensed engineer carries for sealed work.

Do not attempt to break into, overload, or scrape this site, and do not submit material you have no right to submit. We may refuse service to anybody who does.

The site is provided as it is. We work hard to keep the information on it accurate, but content on a website is not engineering advice and must not be relied on as a substitute for a review of your actual plans.

Licensed engineers in Texas are regulated by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and anybody may raise a complaint with the Board about the practice of engineering. Tell us first if you can, because most things are fixable, but that route is always open to you and we will not ask you to waive it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, and the courts of Texas have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

We may update these terms. The version that applies to a job is the one in force when the job was accepted. Questions to [email protected].