Facade Experts
Wheaton Sprague is chartered as a professional engineering company. We are a group of engineers, architects, consultants and designers with a focus on building envelopes, facade, curtain walls and cladding systems. We provide design, engineering and consulting services for the Building Envelope and Curtain Wall Industries to clients throughout the United States.
We work to provide technical support services that will bring order and structure to client’s businesses and projects, providing real value for our client’s investment.
We employ design professionals, technicians, and firm leaders who have worked directly for, and with, some of the client types we serve. Because we work hard to understand our clients’ businesses, we believe it gives us a unique perspective and a deeper understanding of our client’s side of the business.
We provide technical services such as:
technical consulting
structural engineering
thermal analysis and design
system design and systems engineering
building envelope information modeling
production shop drawings (delegated design drawings)
fabrication drawings
related services for all forms of exterior cladding systems that comprise the building envelope
We have two divisions:
Building Envelope ENGINEERING Division: Full-service engineering for exterior cladding systems including glass curtain wall, panel, stone and architectural specialty components.
Building Envelope CONSULTING Division: Expert consulting for building envelope, building façade and cladding systems including schematic design, design development and construction documents, specification development, construction administration, testing and witnessing of testing in laboratory or field, forensic investigation of building envelope failures or defects, expert witness testimony, thermal design and analysis, observation, peer review, blast / impact assessment, remediation and assessment services and other related services.
Company Leadership
John L. Wheaton
CEO
WHEATON SPRAGUE BUILDING ENVELOPE
Wheaton Sprague Building Envelope's President is John Wheaton. He is an award-winning CEO and a passionate advocate for the advancement of the building envelope and curtain wall industry. Check out John's blog where he writes on his experience of 24 years as an owner, his viewpoint on the Architecture/Engineering/Construction industry as a whole, and his philosophies of life and business.
Richard Sprague
President
WHEATON SPRAGUE BUILDING ENVELOPE
Richard Sprague is an architectural curtain wall designer who has devoted his career to the design aspects of the building industry, serving both architectural and building envelope firms. He serves as Vice President of Operations and Design, Drafting and Modeling Department at Wheaton Sprague, which he co-founded with John Wheaton in 1994.