From Basking Ridge village to Liberty Corner and Lyons, we design and engineer additions, second stories, renovations and new homes for Bernards Township homeowners.
Bernards Township covers about 24 square miles of the Somerset Hills, bounded by the Second Watchung Mountain, the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, the Passaic River and the Dead River swamp. It is a New York commuter suburb, with the historic center of Basking Ridge, the villages of Liberty Corner and Lyons, and neighborhoods and developments in between.
Homeowners here tend to invest in their houses rather than move: a larger kitchen and family room, a primary suite over the garage, a finished lower level or a full renovation of an older colonial. Each of those depends on structure, and our engineers design it together with the architecture so the drawings are complete when your builder prices them.
Licensed architects and professional engineers on one team, one contract and one set of signed and sealed drawings. See all of our services.
Rear, side and wraparound additions for kitchens, family rooms and primary suites, with the existing house evaluated by our engineers.
New floors over ranches, capes, garages and one story wings, with foundations and framing checked and reinforced as needed.
Whole house and partial renovations, wall removals and open plans, basements and attics, with structure and systems designed in house.
Ground up single family homes and teardown rebuilds, from site planning to sealed construction drawings.
Decks, covered porches, pergolas and garages engineered for footings, ledgers and loads.
Beam replacements, foundation fixes and engineer's letters for homeowners, buyers and insurers.
In New Jersey, most additions and structural renovations need zoning approval from the town before the construction permit, and the construction permit itself is reviewed under the state Uniform Construction Code. When a design needs relief from a setback, coverage or height limit, it goes to the town's land use board for a variance hearing.
Properties near the Great Swamp, the Passaic and the Dead River can include wetlands, stream buffers or mapped flood areas that limit where an addition can go. We check those constraints on the first site visit and design the footprint around them.
The township also has historic resources, including the Franklin Corners Historic District with Van Dorn's Mill. For older homes in and around Basking Ridge village, we design additions that respect the scale and character of the original house.
However your project is approved, we deliver signed and sealed drawings to you, support you and your contractor through the permit submission and answer the building department's review comments in house. Read how a project moves from consultation to close out on our process page.
Not necessarily. We check wetlands, buffers and flood mapping first and design the addition to fit within them.
Yes. We check the garage foundation and framing and design the structure for the new room above.
Yes, across all of Bernards Township.
See a fixed design fee in about two minutes, or book a consultation and we will visit your home.