Structek Consulting
A GTA structural practice running sealed reviews on Fermito.
Structek Consulting is a structural engineering firm in the Greater Toronto Area producing sealed site review reports on active parking garage repair projects. This page describes the firm, the work Fermito is built against, and the rollout in progress.
The firm
35 sealed reports across two active projects, the work Fermito is built against.
Everything on this page is grounded in Structek’s actual report output. The numbers below come from the firm’s project files, not a discovery call.
- Practice
- Structural engineering - parking garage and building envelope
- Location
- Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
- Active projects on file
- 2 concurrent garage repair programs
- Reports on file
- 35 sealed site review reports across both projects
- Review cadence
- 1–3 site visits per project per week during active phases
- Signers
- Principal engineer signs every report
The work
What 35 site review reports actually cover.
The four categories below are drawn from Structek's project files. Each describes work the firm is actively producing sealed reports on, the same categories the Fermito rollout is tuned against.
01 · Concrete slab repair
Soffit chipping, rebar exposure, and overhead patching at P1 and P2 levels.
The majority of Structek's current report volume covers structural slab repair in underground parking garages: identifying delaminated concrete, confirming rebar condition after chipping, observing bonding agent and patch material application, and documenting the repair against the specification. A single project produced 20 site review reports across six months of active repair work.
20 reports · 6-month project cycle · Jan–Jun 2025
02 · Waterproofing removal and replacement
Membrane strip, surface preparation, and re-application at parking levels.
The second project tracks a full waterproofing lifecycle: removal of the existing failed membrane, surface preparation, and new system installation. Reports cover mobilization, waterproofing strip, concrete substrate condition, and contractor progress through each repair phase.
15 reports · 12-month project cycle · Jun 2024–2025
03 · Ramp heating and mastic
Heating cable installation, metal mesh, and mastic wear course at the garage ramp.
A subset of the first project covers specialized ramp work: heating cable spacing verified against shop drawings, metal mesh for adhesion support, and two-coat mastic application with texture finish. These reports demonstrate multi-visit observation chains where each report references the prior visit's open items.
Multi-visit chain · SRR #19–20 · cable + mastic sequence
04 · Photo-documented observations
Every observation tied to numbered, captioned site photographs.
Structek's reports carry 4–8 site photos per visit, each captioned and cross-referenced by number in the observation text. Photo subjects include delaminated concrete, exposed reinforcing steel, formwork, applied coatings, and completed repair areas. The photo-to-observation link is the evidentiary backbone of each report.
4–8 photos per report · captioned · numbered cross-references
The template
Four sections that appear in every Structek report.
Fermito's generation prompt is tuned to reproduce this exact structure. The template is not a generic report schema. It is the format Structek has used across 35 consecutive reports, and the format every generated draft must match.
- 01Header block
Project name, location, project number, date and time of review, date of issue. Two-column layout with metadata left and dates right. Consistent across all 35 reports.
- 02People table
Three sections: Review By (Structek engineer), Present (contractor personnel on site), Distribution (property manager, contractor project manager, Structek file). Every report names the specific people and companies present at the visit.
- 03Area reviewed + observations
A one-paragraph area-reviewed summary followed by numbered observation items. Each observation references specific photo numbers in parentheses. Observation count ranges from 2 to 6 per report depending on the visit scope.
- 04Sign-off and seal
Standard closing paragraph, then the principal's wet signature, designation (P.Eng., LEED AP), title, email, and telephone. The signature block is identical across all 35 reports. It is the firm's house format, not a per-report decision.
The rollout
How Fermito is deployed against this work.
The four blocks below describe the rollout as it is structured today: template ingestion, category selection, review workflow, and handoff. Each is a decision made against the real report output above, not a generic onboarding playbook.
01 · Template ingestion
Structek's house DOCX is the source of truth.
Fermito ingested Structek's existing site review template: the exact header layout, people table, observation numbering, photo caption style, and signature block visible across the 35 reports on file. The generation prompt is tuned to reproduce that format, not a generic report schema.
House DOCX · per-firm tuning · format match on every export
02 · Categories
Garage slab repair and waterproofing, first.
The rollout starts with the two categories that move volume in Structek's current practice: the same concrete repair and waterproofing work documented across the reports on file. Prompt tuning is calibrated against real observation language from these reports so the first generated draft reads like the firm wrote it.
Volume-led rollout · tuned against real report language
03 · Review workflow
The principal reviews every draft before export.
Fermito generates a draft from the engineer's field notes. The principal reads every sentence, edits where needed, and explicitly signs off before the DOCX exports. The attestation step - the moment the engineer takes ownership - is built into the product, not bolted on after.
Principal-in-loop · attestation modal · diff-tracked revisions
04 · Handoff
Fermito hands off, Structek seals.
Fermito does not try to own the seal-and-distribute step. Drafts export as DOCX into Structek's existing distribution workflow: property managers, contractors, and the project file receive the report through the same channels the firm already uses.
DOCX handoff · Structek seals · existing distribution untouched
What's being measured
Three things the published study will report on.
Measured outcomes land after a complete project cycle on the platform. Each of the three below is an open commitment. Anything the data does not support will be left out.
- 01Hours back to review
The headline metric is not how fast a draft is written. It is how much of the freed time flows back into the part of the week only a licensed engineer can do. The published study will report the shape of that shift across a complete project cycle, not a percentage saving on a single report.
- 02Voice convergence
Every revision on a live report teaches the system a little more of Structek's observation language. The published study will report how much editing the tenth report needed compared to the first, in concrete diff terms, not a satisfaction score.
- 03Sealed-work fit
Whether Fermito's template reproduction and observation framing held up against the standard the firm already set in the 35 reports on file. Did the generated drafts match the observation style? Were any drafts pulled back before signing? The study reports the answer in writing.
Next step
A working demo runs against real report data, not slides.
The demo walks through template ingestion, a generated draft from a real field observation, the revise loop, and a DOCX export in the firm’s house format. Thirty minutes, structured around the firm’s own templates.