Heritage redesign, preservation, and re-adaptation of existing buildings for future, sustained use. Biophilic design, sustainable building materials, and proven green construction methods drive the practice. Fire safety, certification, and approval are known requirements, scoped and priced from the first conversation.
Timber condition, structure, and what is worth keeping. A written read on an existing building before anyone commits to a plan.
Fire performance, certification paths, and carbon reporting for the market you build in, scoped before design begins.
Bringing an existing structure to current energy and use standards without losing what made it worth saving.
Twenty-six years in lumber, engineered wood, and structural timber. Nineteen at the engineered design desk. That seat covered contractor sales, estimating, purchasing, logistics, product lines, training, installation guidance, and site walks with code officials. Architects, engineers, builders, suppliers, and owners, often on the same job.
Most firms give you one of those people. Bardowl gives you the desk where all of it meets.
Senior guidance on how to sharpen a timber operation. I have led sales teams, built engineered wood programs from scratch, managed product mix and purchasing cadence, and run the logistics that keep material moving. I start by understanding your business, then deliver organized advice you can act on.
How they sell, what they know about the products, how they handle technical questions, and where deals fall through. Recommendations, not a seminar.
What you stock, what you do not, and what you should, measured against your market and the direction the industry is moving.
Purchasing cadence, manufacturer relationships, product selection, design team evaluation, and training your people on why to use what, when, and where.
Freight, delivery routing, mill relationships, lead time management. Advice from someone who has managed the flow.
Output quality, turnaround, technical accuracy, and how well a design department serves sales and customers.
Where you sit in your market and what you can do about it. I have deep knowledge of regional timber markets and the supply chain in North America.
Client-aligned project protection. Understanding first, then clear and organized advice.
I read construction documents the way a builder reads them. I catch missing details, specification gaps, and structural assumptions that will not survive the field.
I walk your site and evaluate what is happening against what the plans say. Framing quality, material handling, code compliance, workmanship. Written report with photos.
Before you sign, a professional read on a builder's process, past work, subs, and how they handle problems.
Specs checked against real availability, lead times, and correct application.
Your budget against real numbers. Change orders evaluated for legitimacy. Scope boundaries documented and held.
Full project representation from planning through closeout. Meetings, inspectors, permit offices, progress review.
This is a standalone consulting practice. I am not using advisory engagements to sell other Bardowl services. If another company, Bardowl or otherwise, is the best fit for something you need, I will tell you. The cheapest fix is the one you catch before it is built.
Bardowl Consulting is priced to compete with established firms in this space. The difference is what you get for it: twenty-six years of experience, a defined scope, and clarity before money starts moving. Pricing is set per engagement. Start the conversation and we will tell you what the work should cost.
Tell us about your project. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
Twenty-five years in lumber, engineered wood, and structural timber. Nineteen of them at the engineered design desk for one of the Midwest's leading wholesale lumber distributors.
Bardowl, and every tool on this site, came out of that work.
