OUR EXPERTISE
We specialize in engineering investigation and analysis to reconstruct,
ascertain cause, and evaluate responsibility for accidents, failures and
malfunctions in these areas:
Accident Reconstruction (Vehicular):
- Automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles,
pedestrian, trucks, trains, ATVs
- Bio-mechanics and human factors
- Highway and traffic safety
- High and low speed collisions
- Right-of-way
- Roadway evaluation and assessment
- Seatbelts and airbags
- Sight and stopping distance and speed calculations
- Traffic signals
Amusement Rides:
- Personal injury; electrical, mechanical and structural
failures
Appliances:
- Gas and electric: design, installation, manufacturing
and service defects
Bridge Design, Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance
Building Codes and Standards Conformance
Chemical Engineering:
- Chemistry and chemical analysis
- Chemical process equipment
- Smoke/Soot analysis & determination of extent of
damage
Civil Engineering
Computers
Construction:
- Industrial, commercial, and residential
- Heavy and highway
- Safety (OSHA requirements)
- Evaluation of proper construction methods (i.e., bracing)
- Construction management
Construction Equipment Accidents:
- Cranes, front-end loaders, forklifts, ladders, scaffolds
Corrosion
Cost Evaluation
Crane Accidents
Electrical Engineering:
- Electrical equipment failures: cause, origin and extent
of damages
- Lightning damage evaluation
- Surges and power outages
- Electrocution and personal injury
- Fires, engineering support for cause and origin
- Electrical shorts and arcing
- Transformers and substations
- Damages from the elements (wind, water, snow, temperature,
etc.)
Environmental Control Systems
Explosions:
- Boilers, tanks, pressure cylinders, gas, propane
Fires - All Types:
- Residential, commercial, industrial, vehicular
- Fires, engineering support for cause and origin
- Extent of Electrical, Mechanical and Structural Damage
- Evaluation of fire detection and suppression systems
- Arson, engineering support for cause and origin
Fuel Tank Ruptures
Glass Failures
Human Factors - Investigation and Analysis
Hydrology & Hydraulics
- Floods, wells, groundwater, surface water runoff
- Sewerage and drainage systems
- Stormwater detention
Highway Design, Construction and Maintenance
Industrial Engineering and Accidents
Lightning Strikes
Mechanical Engineering:
- Heating, ventilating & air conditioning systems
- Chillers and chilled water systems
- Corrosion
- Explosions (see above)
- Fire protection systems
- Heating equipment: oil, gas, electric, propane, freeze-ups
- Hot water and steam systems
- Motors and generators
- Plumbing
- Sprinkler systems: wet pipe, dry pipe, pre-action and
deluge
- Tools
Metallurgical and Material Analysis:
- Metals, timber, plastics, masonry, concrete, composites,
earth, asphalt, rock and soil
Personal Injury:
- Residential, commercial and industrial
- Slip, trip and fall accidents and injuries (see detail
below)
- Guarding
- Playgrounds
- Burns and scaldings
- Electric shock
Pipe Failures:
- Rupture
- Freeze-up
Product Liability:
- Residential, commercial and industrial
- Design, manufacture, warnings, recalls, defects
- Automobiles; lawn and garden equipment; electrical equipment;
propane and natural gas equipment; gasoline powered equipment; worker's
compensation and industrial accidents; consumer products; snowblowers;
medical instrumentation and equipment; recreation and fitness equipment
Railroads
Retail Store Injuries
Safety Engineering
Sensor and Alarm Systems
Slip, Trip and Fall Accidents and Injuries:
- Residential, commercial and industrial
- Stairs, ladders, chairs, parking lots and garages, sidewalks,
loading docks
- Walkway surface friction
- Illuminance
- Stairways, ramps and railings
- Construction codes and standards; Americans with Disabilities
Act
Smoke/Soot Damage
Structural Engineering:
- Structural failures and analysis; extent of damage; structural
integrity
- Settlement, deflection and creep
- Earthquake, fire and tornado damage
- Corrosion
- Hydrostatic soil pressure; frost heave
- Lightning damage
- Roof failures
- Sink holes
- Collapses
- Temporary support structures (see detail below)
- Evaluation of pre-engineered metal buildings
- Blasting and vibrations
- Weather damage: snow, ice, rain, wind and flood
Surveying
Temporary Support Structures:
- Scaffolding, platforms, shoring, bracing, underpinning,
hoists and cranes
Welding Engineering
Worker's Compensation Accidents
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