Structural Detail Library
A governed set of construction details aligned to how your crews build: connections, members, foundations, and assemblies your designers call by name every permit cycle.
Dixon Engineering provides licensed structural and multidisciplinary engineering for design-build firms at production scale: governed detail libraries, calculation packages by system and element, internal plan review, and permitting support with Professional Engineer sign-off.
Engineering should be systems-based. Engineers do their best work in structured environments, solving permitting and planning challenges with repeatable methods.
Phillip Dixon, P.E.
Licensed engineering services that build across your project portfolio. Each engagement expands a governed library your team and our Professional Engineers can sign on the next permit cycle.
A governed set of construction details aligned to how your crews build: connections, members, foundations, and assemblies your designers call by name every permit cycle.
Client exemplar
Pacific Outdoor Living is a Los Angeles design-build firm founded in 1999. They run a full in-house model: site analysis, design, permitting, and construction across pools, hardscape, outdoor kitchens, pergolas, and complete backyard transformations. Dixon Engineering provides licensed engineering for their structural detail library and calculation packages.
Pacific has completed 20,000+ projects on a design-build promise: on budget, one coordinated team from site analysis through construction. Their permitting department, in-house crews, and five-step design process require structural engineering that keeps pace with production.
Dixon Engineering established the Gude Pacific Structural Library: a detail corpus drawn from Pacific's construction standards and estimating library, converted into governed blocks and paired calculation packages. Details are indexed by system (pergola, patio cover, pool-adjacent structure) and by element (post base, beam, brace, connection) so designers select the correct assembly from the library on every job.
Calculation packages follow the same taxonomy. A freestanding pergola system includes member-level checks, connection supplements, and paired construction details. A patio cover follows the same internal review path before authority submittal. Each project starts from a defined engineering baseline.
That is the licensed engineering model Dixon delivers: systems-based structural engineering for high-volume design-build firms.
Systems in active library development include:
Pacific's design-build path runs Site Analysis through Construction. Dixon Engineering runs a parallel licensed structural path with Professional Engineer oversight at each stage.
Document details and calculation precedents from live projects and construction standards. Index by system and element.
Publish calculation packages with paired details. Each system follows a defined checklist and Professional Engineer review path.
Licensed internal plan review against library criteria before external submittal. Professional Engineer findings stay in the taxonomy.
Deliver authority-ready licensed documentation citing the same details and calculations your design team used.
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