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Structural Practice Area
Structural Engineer-Engineering Expert

Forensic perspective beyond the construction process.

Structural cases often requires an expert with focused expertise. We have licensed professional structural engineers who have experience with residential, industrial, institutional, municipal and commercial structures, including roadway and railroad bridges. Our engineers specialize in investigations and litigation involving structural engineering, identifying causes of structure failure, code compliance, standards, structure safety, and more.

Their expertise includes design, construction, construction inspection, maintenance, condition inspection, bridge ratings, construction safety, claims analysis, constructability reviews, erection plans, falsework engineering and heavy rigging.

Services provided include:

  • Analysis of modes of structural failure/collapse
  • Review of construction defects and determination of responsible party
  • Analysis of engineers performance during design and construction document preparation
  • Review of construction site safety procedures
  • Analysis of contractors performance during construction including means and methods, staging, sequencing, falsework, lifting and rigging
  • Claims analysis

Related Articles/Documents
  • Tilt-Wall Braces - Expert Article on Helical Ground Anchors
    • Tilt-Wall Braces - Expert Article on Helical Ground Anchors

      Structural Engineer, Mark Duckett, PE, authored the attached article regarding the use of Helical Ground Anchors for "Anchoring" Tilt-Wall Braces in the Summer 2010 edition of the Building Officials Association of Florida (BOAF) newsletter.

      View Full Article HERE

  • Engineering Professional Liability - Expert Investigates Damage to Adjacent Structure
    • Engineering Professional Liability - Expert Investigates Damage to Adjacent Structure

      While construction was being performed on an adjacent site, the owner of an 80,000 square foot, two story office building complained repeatedly of vibrations in his building. After the construction was over he later claimed to have just discovered significant damage to his five year old building that could only have been caused by the vibrations. We reviewed the claimed damage, the original construction drawings for the owner’s building and the history of the adjacent construction.

      View Full Case HERE

  • Heavy Rigging - Expert Engineered and Managed a Complex Rigging Operation
    • Heavy Rigging - Expert Engineered and Managed a Complex Rigging Operation

      Brent Leisenring engineered and managed a complex heavy rigging operation in which a 120 foot long, 600,000 pound reactor vessel had to be moved from a barge, two miles into and through an operating oil refinery, picked up and rotated into a vertical position and set, within 1/8 of an inch accuracy, onto 12 anchor bolts on a concrete foundation pad-without the use of a crane to handle the vessel in the refinery.

      View Full Our Work HERE

  • Robson Forensic Case Reports: Construction
    • Robson Forensic Case Reports: Construction

      Construction cases often require an expert with focused expertise. We have experts in architecture, civil, electrical, mechanical, geotechnical and materials sciences.

      View Full Our Work HERE

  • Robson Forensic Brochure
    • Robson Forensic Brochure

      Robson Forensic has been providing high quality and professional forensic engineering, architectural, scientific and investigative services throughout the United States since 1987. Robson Forensic provides expertise in a broad range of forensic and technical disciplines.

      View Full Our Work HERE