Resume | Alan Pettingale

Alanpettingale.com, Masonry Restoration, DFW area, Texas, 2017 to present (owner)
Consultant and Mentor for The Masonry Society
Specialized Masonry Restoration, U.S.A. 2003 to 2017 (president and founder)
Implemented masonry repair and anchor stabilization on a wide variety of structures and buildings, from churches, schools, universities, historical, and historic residential homes.
Replaced/installed thousands of remedial wall ties to anchor masonry veneer where existing wall ties have corroded or missing.
Applied all forms of traditional lateral restraint anchors in historic buildings to stabilize moving walls.
Structural Repair Services, England 1996 to 2003
Surveying buildings for wall tie corrosion and research and development of new repair strategies for masonry restoration and training technicians/Crew
WT Fixings, England 1994 to 1996
Subcontractor working on Historic bridges and structures, ranging from viaducts to dock walls in London using a range of diamond coring equipment.
Brick Tie LTD , England 1987 to 1994
Area manager in charge of installing remedial wall ties and quality control, surveying buildings, working with Engineers and Architects

Historical Edwardian houses and structures
Historical Victorian houses and structures
Bridges / Viaducts
The oldest was York Wall in Yorkshire built by the Romans
Substantial number of residential homes installed with remedial wall ties pre-1945

The Hidden Problem – A keynote presentation about masonry problems, given to the Foundation Repair Association at there Annual Seminar meeting 2004 and was published in the Fall 2004 issue of On The LEVEL, the association newsletter
Article “Stabilizing Traditional Masonry Buildings” by Amy Johnson, which appeared in the Fall of 2007 issue of Traditional Magazine
Mr Pettingale was interviewed for Dallas/FortWorth Construction News in August 2005 “Giving all you have got”
Consultant in 2008 to Mr Tom Witherspoon PhD P.E. assisting with masonry repair for his book Infrastructure Evaluation Maintenance and Repair
Archway Repair – A video for masonry professionals demonstrating the use of theSimpson Heli-Tie™ anchor system to reinforce and repair masonry Archways 2010
Wrote a paper for the 11th North American Masonry Conference 2011, “The Use of Lateral Restraint Anchors for Stabilization of Multiwythe Masonry Walls”

Designed a unique remedial system for anchoring masonry veneer (Patented)
Designed a pointing machine for raking out existing mortar joints on Historic buildings (patent pending)
Designed a system using the most up to date imaging techniques to install remedial wall ties

Attended a course in England for Cintec Hark cementitious anchor systems and adapted these for all types of properties and structures.
Attended a course in England for specialized anchor systems, Helifix Mortar Bed Reinforcement
Member of the Wall tie installers Federation England