Forensic & Structural Engineering · Expert Testimony
The Firm
Certified Engineering Inc investigates structural failure, establishes cause, and produces analysis that holds up under scrutiny it does not choose.
Certified Engineering Inc is a forensic and structural engineering practice. The firm investigates structural failure, establishes cause, and produces analysis that holds up under the scrutiny it will not choose — opposing experts in litigation, audit under public contract, and peer review before a code body.
The practice is retained by government agencies, institutional owners, insurers and their counsel, and international clients. Its work spans buildings, bridges, and industrial structures, and covers the full arc of a matter: first inspection, evidence preservation, computational analysis, written opinion, and testimony.
The firm additionally specialises in reverse engineering — recovering the capacity and design intent of structures whose documentation is missing, incomplete, or contradicted by what was actually built. This work is supported by analysis tooling developed in-house, because commercial software presumes a documented design that in these matters does not exist.
Method
Published so a client knows the sequence before the first invoice, and so the record is defensible after the last.
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A conflict check is run before any matter is accepted. Scope, schedule, and the specific question to be answered are agreed in writing at the outset.
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Site inspection under documented protocol, with evidence preserved to a chain-of-custody standard suitable for proceedings. Sampling and testing programs are specified before material is disturbed.
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Computational models are built to be reproduced — meshed, validated against measured behavior, and documented so an opposing expert can run the same analysis and reach the same result.
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Findings are issued as a written opinion with the underlying data appended. Deposition and trial testimony are provided where the matter proceeds.
Quality assurance
Conclusions of consequence are reviewed against the underlying data before an opinion is issued.
Models, inputs, and assumptions are documented and retained so any finding can be reconstructed years later.
Physical evidence and field data are logged and preserved to a standard that survives challenge in proceedings.
Conflict checks precede acceptance, and adverse engagements are declined rather than screened.
Registrations & offices
Professional Engineer (P.E.)
State registration maintained for jurisdictions in which the firm practices.
Certificate of Authorization
Firm-level authorization to offer engineering services.
Professional membership
American Society of Civil Engineers · Institution of Structural Engineers · International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.
Licence numbers, states of registration, and the firm's Certificate of Authorization are provided on request and accompany every report issued.
Los Angeles, California
Principal office
Primary service area
Forensic and expert engagements are accepted nationally and internationally.
Newsroom
Releases issued by the firm and distributed over the wire.
16 July 2025
Press release · ABNewswire
Announcement covering the firm's Southern California practice, its service area across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and its client-focused approach to engineering work.