Professional Engineers are like Detectives

The first priority of Professional Engineers is the safety and welfare of their clients who will spend their lives in a home that they clear.

According to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Consumer Affairs, Professional Engineers are committed to the public’s health, safety and welfare above all things.

Because of their credibility, accountability to the state and moral obligation, they often act like a detective with a magnifying glass ready in their pockets. Each risk is like a clue that can eventually lead them in solving a case: whether a house is safe enough to be inhabited.

Professional Engineers have the goal of ensuring that the people feel safe and secure inside the comfort of their homes, structural wise.

How are Professional Engineers like Detectives?

Just like detectives, they are trained to have a “nose” for potential threats in poorly made houses and faulty infrastructure.

They are trained through a four-year college degree and an additional four years of ground work as training. They also need to pass two intensive competency exams and earn a license from their state’s licensure board.

Just like detectives, they are taught how to “read” a building and see it beyond its surface.

They are wired to overthink and overanalyze, in the sole purpose of doing their jobs of safeguarding their clients. A simple crack in the wall will not be just a simple crack in the wall for them. They will dig and dig for information until they arrive at the conclusion that it indeed, it is just a simple crack in the wall.

Just like detectives, they provide an accurate picture of the structure and the overall systems of the building.

Their work doesn’t stop on observing a structure. They will provide an in depth, well-critiqued and unbiased report whether it is safe or not.

Just like detectives, they focus on the details.

Professional Engineers are trained to find the smallest of details that often go overlooked.

But, unlike detectives Professional Engineers work to prevent disasters in the making, rather than solve crimes that were made in the past.

Professional Engineers have the ability to avert ticking time bombs and make sure that their clients are safe, as well as they get what they pay for.