*Jeff Hinkle Company has entered the chat*

I’ve started writing this thing about a dozen times now, so this time I’m just going to go for it. I spent entirely too much time researching what my first post should be about. Most of the advice was very generic, and, I think, would lead to something sounding very insincere. So, I’m going to tell you a story instead.

Years ago when we moved to Colorado Springs, we purchased a home right away. Not less than a month after we moved in, the toilet in the upstairs bathroom developed a leak, and, naturally, this began when we were out of town for the weekend. Since I was new in town I was scrambling to find contractors to replace the toilet and repair the water damage. At the time I didn’t really know anyone here, so word of mouth was out, and searching the internet only told me that yes, contractors exist here. But which one should I call? Will they do a good job? Will they lowball the quote and then nickel & dime me once the work has started? Is it the type of outfit that doesn’t have a lot of repeat business for one reason or another? Fortunately for me everything worked out, but that question still remains - how do you know who to trust with your project?

I can’t make that decision for you, but I can tell you what my company can do for you. In my career I have been involved in all stages of a project from feasibility analysis and FEED studies to final inspections and project close out. We can give you insight on the front end that will save you dollars on the back end. If you have a conceptual design, but don’t have engineering capacity, we can handle your detailed engineering & design and provide a construction-ready drawing package including layout plans, details, BOMs and MTOs. If you don’t have a design concept we can help you develop that. We can provide feasibility studies. We can handle your front end engineering & design and give you a solid package that you can hand off to a larger engineering house. We can provide design and specification reviews. If your organization doesn’t have reliable, vetted engineering & construction specifications to provide to a contractor, we can write those for you. If you are an equipment manufacturer without structural engineering capacity, we can evaluate your equipment and provide an engineer’s report, seal your drawings, provide tabulated anchor bolt loads, design a foundation for it - anything your client may ask for. We can design or evaluate your piping systems, design supports for the piping, evaluate the effects of the piping on your equipment, and then design foundations for all of it - same goes for routing your cable tray runs. Surely this would never happen, but, hypothetically, if you were to have a project go off the rails, we can participate in your project postmortem and help you make process improvements.

We serve a relatively narrow market, but we are very good at what we do, and I am very excited about being able to offer those services directly to you.