Forensic & Structural Engineering · Expert Testimony
Practice
Investigate first, model second, conclude last. Every engagement produces a record another engineer can follow to the same finding — the only standard that holds when the finding is contested.
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Determining why a structure behaved the way it did — and putting that determination in a form that survives cross-examination.
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Site-first investigation of collapse, distress, and serviceability failure, from first inspection through reconstructed load history.
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Numerical models built to be defensible: meshed, validated against measured behavior, and documented so another engineer can reproduce them.
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Recovering the design intent, load path, and capacity of structures whose drawings are lost, incomplete, or contradicted by what was actually built.
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Assessment, rating, and investigation of bridge structures across material types and delivery methods.
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Seismic demand, capacity, and retrofit — including post-event assessment where the question is whether a building may be reoccupied.
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Material-level explanation of structural performance, where the answer lives in the concrete or the weld rather than the frame.
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Instrumenting structures so behavior is measured rather than assumed — and so change is caught before it becomes failure.
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New design and design review, informed by two decades of seeing how structures actually fail.
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Sectors
The structural question rarely arrives on its own — it arrives inside a claim, a contract, a portfolio, or a proceeding.
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Retained by counsel and carriers where the structural question is contested and the finding will be tested by an opposing expert.
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Engineering services delivered under public contract, where the record is subject to audit and the reporting standard is set by the agency.
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Universities, healthcare systems, and transit authorities holding long-lived structures where continuity of occupancy is the operative constraint.
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Owners and stewards of large portfolios, where structural risk is carried on the balance sheet and has to be quantified rather than estimated.
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Engaged by builders and designers on constructability, defect, and means-and-methods questions, including during construction.
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Cross-border engagements coordinated with local codes, local counsel, and local practice, under the conventions of the governing jurisdiction.
Capability
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The firm has held engineering responsibility for structures and portfolios exceeding $7 billion in aggregate asset value — work in which structural risk sits directly on an owner's balance sheet.
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Services delivered under public contract, with reporting to the standard set by the contracting agency and a record maintained for audit.
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Retained on large-scale structures where the consequence of error is measured in public safety rather than programme.
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Investigation and analysis across jurisdictions, coordinated with local codes, local counsel, and the engineer of record.
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Reverse-engineering software developed in-house for recovering capacity from undocumented structures — capability not available commercially.