Services

Fossa Technical Advisors offers technically rigorous judgment in situations where enclosure-related decisions carry material risk: during design, during construction, and after occupancy.

We operate alongside architects, engineers, façade consultants, and testing laboratories as an independent advisory layer, providing clarity, causality, and defensible technical analysis.

How our advisory work is applied:

Design-Phase Risk Advisory

Independent judgment applied during design pre-construction to reduce predictable enclosure failure modes before they are embedded in the project.

Engagements include:

Evaluation of enclosure design concepts and critical interfaces informed by documented failure conditions and field performance history
Review of enclosure strategies against anticipated weather exposure and enclosure-related air, water, and thermal dynamics
Independent assessment of substitutions, deviations, and scope changes with respect to enclosure performance risk
Owner-side advisory during construction, separate from design authorship, trade execution, vendor interests, or testing entities

Fossa Technical Advisors is engaged when standard project management, conventional consulting, or testing protocols have not resolved underlying performance questions, and the cost of being wrong is material.

Construction-Phase Technical Review

Independent evaluation of enclosure execution during construction, focused on identifying embedded performance risk before it becomes latent exposure.

Review of project delivery against design intent and performance risk
Evaluation of detailing and interface conditions affecting enclosure durability
Independent interpretation of field testing and mock-up results
Off-site manufacturer and fabrication review to assess production conformity, quality controls, and percentage-of-completion documentation
Executive-level memoranda documenting observations, risk exposure

Forensic & Post-Occupancy Advisory

Independent forensic analysis of enclosure performance issues after construction or during occupancy. Technical scrutiny where cause, responsibility, or exposure is unclear and the cost of a wrong conclusion is material.

Root-cause investigation of water intrusion, air leakage, and condensation
Evaluation and critique of prior testing, documentation, and investigative conclusions
Advisory support for targeted test strategy, interpretation, and evidentiary framing
Assessment of proposed remediation strategies, scope definition, and quality criteria
Technical support for insurance claims, disputes, and litigation

Work products are prepared to withstand technical, contractual, and legal scrutiny.

Selected Experience

Independent advisory on complex enclosure performance issues during active construction and post-occupancy.

Investigation of intermittent and multi-trade water intrusion pathways where conventional QA/QC and remediation efforts have not resolved the issue.

Technical support in dispute and claim conditions involving façade and enclosure performance.

Review of high-risk enclosure interfaces, barrier system transitions, atypical geometry, and system interactions.