About Mark Meshulam
My name is Mark Meshulam. I am a construction consultant with 40+ years of experience. I stumbled into the construction industry in 1981 and have never looked back. It is an exciting field with ever-evolving technology. In this field, you literally never stop learning.
I spent the first 30 years as a facade contractor, furnishing and installing window, entrances, curtainwalls, skylights and other engineered facade products in the Chicago market with a company called Builders Architectural Products. Within that company, I created a consulting division called Builders Architectural Repair & Testing because sometimes our clients needed help, not products.
Here are some of the important matters that came, and continue to come our way:
- A woman injured when a storm window detached from a building and struck her
- A new high-rise that suffered an epidemic of spontaneous glass breakage
- A child who was injured when a shower door shattered on him
- A condominium that suffered from a severe mold outbreak due to water leakage through exterior walls
- An apartment building that suffered severe condensation on the windows
- A brother and sister who fell from an unsecured hotel window (luckily they lived)
- A boy who fell from the bedroom window of the family’s new home (tragically he did not survive)
- Three murder cases in which broken glass was part of the evidence
- A sad case where two women leaned against a hotel window, broke through and fell from heights (one survived, one didn’t)
- Consulting with an architectural firm about replacing a huge skylight at a university
- Consulting with an architectural firm about selecting and detailing new windows for 4 new high-rises
- Consulting with a general contractor about managing quality window installation for three new high rise residences
Now, operating as Mark Meshulam LLC with websites www.chicagowindowexpert.com and www.facadeconsultants.com, we are full-time construction consultants with many years of hands-on experience under our belt.
We are here to bring our deep experience in the construction industry to you as a construction consultant. We can help you analyze and fix a problem, be your expert witness in litigation, or help you get the best possible quality from your project.