OPPIDAN has been providing Inspecting Architect services to lending institutions since 1978. Our professional architectural firm consists of licensed architects, engineers, and construction experts who provide prompt, thorough, courteous, no nonsense inspection services.

Gus Mauro incorporated OPPIDAN in 1980, after having found previous success in the engineering, architectural and construction industries. Gus’s past experience and expertise in these areas made him acutely sensitive and knowledgeable of the needs of construction lenders. The Inspecting Architect service would provide lending institutions the comfort level they would need to facilitate funding projects of diverse sizes and complexities. Tom Weathered joined Gus in 1998 as their Senior Architect and since has been named President of the firm. Tom’s extensive experience as both a design architect and a construction manager has made this already seasoned OPPIDAN team even stronger.

As our experience, reputation, and staff grew, so did our list of clients and services. Today, OPPIDAN provides construction document review, draw evaluation services, and Cost To Complete reports to almost all of the construction lenders in the Chicago area. OPPIDAN also provides engineering inspections for private owners and developers, program management services for municipal clients, and Property Condition Assessments (PCAs) for end lenders in the Chicago area and throughout the country.

OPPIDANusa has positioned itself to take full advantage of today’s latest technology to provide the prompt, thorough, courteous, no nonsense service that has always been our mainstay.