Request a Proposal
Get your number.
Send the drawings, the address, and the deadline. An engineer reviews the set, confirms the scope and the licensing path for your jurisdiction, and prices it — in writing. No portal account, no ticket queue, no week of intake review.
Qualifying scopes priced the same day
Start with the drawings
This form is the whole front door. Fill it once and it lands with the engineering team — the same people who will scope, price, and run the work. Everything with a star is required; everything else just makes the first reply faster.
We don't do site visits. We handle design work and PE stamping — our licensed PEs design and stamp your project from the drawings, surveys, photos, and records you send us, so work can start fast, in your state, without waiting for a trip to the site.
What Happens Next
From upload to proposal
Four steps, one contact, no hand-offs. You always know which step your project is on and who owns it.
Engineer review
A real engineer opens your set — not a sales rep and not a bot. We check the drawings for completeness, flag what would slow the permit, and note anything missing while it is still cheap to fix.
Scope + licensing check
We confirm the scope against the jurisdiction: which disciplines, which seal, which licensed professional takes responsible charge. If your state or project type needs something specific, you hear it now — not at plan check.
Priced proposal
You get the proposal in writing: scope, deliverables, schedule, and a fixed price. Qualifying scopes land the same day; larger scopes get a committed date in the first reply, inside 12–24 hours.
Approval + kickoff
Approve the scope and the work starts — design, calculations, coordination, and sealed delivery through the licensed professional named on your job, with plan-check support through approval.
No Fine Print Games
What your proposal includes
A Torch proposal is a working document, not a teaser rate. Six things are in every one:
Defined scope
The exact work we are pricing, discipline by discipline — structural, MEP, civil — written against your drawings and your deadline, not a boilerplate package.
Deliverables list
What you will receive: drawings, calculations, letters, and sealed sets, named individually so you can check delivery against the list.
Licensing path
The jurisdiction's requirements and who seals the work — a licensed Professional Engineer in your project's state, through Apex Grid Engineering's bench, verified before kickoff.
Schedule
Start and delivery dates we commit to, with the review cycles that affect them called out up front instead of discovered later.
Fixed price
One number for the defined scope. If the scope changes, the price change is quoted and approved in writing before the extra work starts — never after.
Assumptions + exclusions
What we are relying on and what is not included, stated plainly on the same page as the price. Surprises are a process failure, and we treat them that way.
Who Reviews Your Drawings
Challenger speed. Institutional bench.
Torch Engineering PLLC is the challenger brand of Apex Grid Engineering PLLC. Torch brings the pace — fast intake, fast pricing, one contact who owns your job. The engineering bench behind it is Apex Grid's: licensed Professional Engineers covering 49 states, with the coverage, bench, and team figures on this site belonging to Apex Grid Engineering.
That structure is the point. Regulated engineering and seals are performed through Apex Grid Engineering's licensed professionals, in the state where your project sits, under responsible charge that is named on the job. Project services and seals are subject to jurisdictional licensing and responsible-charge review by the licensed professional assigned to your project. Fast never means skipping the review — it means the review starts the day your drawings land.
Send the Right Set
What to attach
PDF is the format reviewers want. Current architectural or structural sets, permit sets in progress, redlines, and marked-up scans all work — a half-finished set with a note about what is missing beats a perfect set sent next week. DWG and DXF are welcome, and a ZIP is fine for multi-file sets. The form takes up to 10 MB; anything bigger, send the form without the file and email the set or a share link to info@torchengineering.com.
Three things in the project details save a full round of back-and-forth: the project address (city and state drive the licensing check), the building type and size, and the date that actually matters — bid day, permit submittal, or lease commencement. If a plan-check comment letter started this conversation, attach it. Comment letters are our favorite starting point.
Straight Answers
Before you ask
What does a proposal cost?
Nothing. Reviewing your drawings and pricing the scope is free, and no obligation comes with it. You pay only when you approve a written scope and tell us to start — the price in that scope is the price.
How fast will I get my proposal?
A human being answers every request within 12–24 hours. Qualifying scopes — a complete set, a clear jurisdiction, a defined deliverable — move straight to a priced proposal the same day. Bigger or messier scopes get a firm timeline in that first reply, not silence.
What files can I send?
PDF is best. DWG, DXF, ZIP archives, and photos or scans of markups all work. The form takes files up to 10 MB; for a larger set, submit the form without the file and email the set — or a share link — to info@torchengineering.com.
Who reviews and stamps the drawings?
Your set is reviewed by Torch's engineering team and sealed by a licensed Professional Engineer in your project's jurisdiction, through Apex Grid Engineering's licensed bench. The responsible professional is verified and named before work starts — the seal on your drawings belongs to the engineer who actually reviewed them.
I don't have drawings yet. Can I still request a proposal?
Yes. Describe the project — building type, size, location, and where you are in the process — and we will scope design from scratch the same way. A sketch, a survey, or a marked-up photo of the site is enough to start the conversation.
What does the proposal include?
A defined scope, the deliverables you will receive, the licensing and sealing path for your jurisdiction, a schedule, and a fixed price — in writing, with assumptions and exclusions stated plainly. No hourly meter running while you decide.
Do you do site visits or inspections?
No — we don't do site visits or on-site inspections. We handle design work and PE stamping only. Send us your drawings, survey, photos, and any existing records, and our licensed PEs will design and stamp your project from those. If something is missing or unclear, we'll tell you exactly what to send — we won't hold your project up waiting for a site trip.
Not ready to send drawings?
Ask the question first. The contact page reaches the same team, and the phone reaches a human — (480) 490-0064, Queen Creek, Arizona.
Torch Engineering PLLC · (480) 490-0064 · info@torchengineering.com — PE stamping backed by Apex Grid Engineering.