Koji Hirota

Biography

Koji Hirota, AIA, LEED AP, is a senior consulting architect with Rimkus Consulting Group (RCG). RCG is a multidisciplinary forensics company providing professional services with more than 400 engineers, architects, scientists, and other experts offering real-world expertise that spans across a broad spectrum of public and private environments. Rimkus provides construction consulting, property consulting and forensic investigations.

Mr. Hirota has over 25 years of experience in the design, documentation, and construction of commercial, residential, and institutional structures. He has extensive experience leading teams from the initial proposal, design process, building code and ADA evaluations, documentation, and specifications thru contract administration and project closeout. Mr. Hirota has leveraged his building construction experience into clear solutions for building owners, insurance companies, attorneys, and associated clients.

Mr. Hirota's expertise and experience include property condition assessments, construction documentation and detailing, directing design intent, specifications, quality assurance, building code, and ADA compliance review. He has extensive experience in Contract (construction) Administration that includes serving as the contract appointed initial decision maker. He has guided the architectural team in the schedule, design, documentation, and Contract Administration of both public and private sector projects. Mr. Hirota served as the primary lead during construction, in contact with the client, GC and project team solving issues as they occurred in the field. Project experience includes planning, renovations and new construction of churches, schools, day care facilities, multi-family residence facilities, gymnasiums, commercial kitchens, network operations centers, hotels, interior office fit-outs, historic renovations, roof replacements, ADA accessibility renovations, and life safety evaluations. 

His current work in the field of building forensics includes inspection and analysis of failures in building envelopes on commercial, industrial, and residential properties. Assignments included construction defects, roofing evaluations, building envelope failures and deficiencies, storm damage, deficiencies related to building code compliance, ADA, and property damage.

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