Engineering Services

+ Residential

Foscadh engineers have a wide variety of experience in residential design. From multi-family, mid-rise housing to private-client, high-end homes.

• Private, single-family, residential buildings
• Mid-rise, multi-family, residential buildings
• Glulam and engineered lumber
• Heavy timber, post-and-beam
• Steel girders
• Heavy and drifting snow load
• High-wind, hurricane resistant structures
• High-seismic, new and retrofit
• Residential structural evaluation and repair
• Retaining walls
• And more!

+ Commercial

Commercial structures require cost-effective designs that can be constructed efficiently. Careful coordination with other professionals and trades is key. Our engineers have practical knowledge in common construction issues and can tailor our designs to meet the aggressive construction schedules often required for commercial buildings.

• Sustainable design, LEED AP Building Design + Construction
• Mid-rise commercial buildings
• High-rise commercial buildings
• Post-tensioned slabs
• Precast concrete structures
• Tilt-up wall design
• Steel and concrete space-frames
• High-wind, hurricane resistant structures
• High-seismic, new and retrofit
• Renovation of existing structures
• Structural condition assessment
• Additions and expansions
• Retaining walls
• And more!

+ Industrial

Foscadh engineers have extensive experience in industrial design, including pulp and paper, lifting & handling, precast concrete fabrication, and more. Our experience allows our industrial designs to be tailored to your specific needs, minimize unscheduled downtime, and provide value to your industrial process.

• Heavy industrial structural repair
• Modification of existing buildings for new equipment and processes
• High corrosion environments
• Medium-rise and high-rise industrial building design
• Tank support slab and attachments
• Equipment support and anchorage
• Heavy operating floor load design
• Platforms, mezzanines, and access walkways
• Fall-protection tie-offs
• Piping structural supports
• Process equipment structural supports
• Monorails, design and load rating
• Bridge crane support structure
• Lifting beams, design and load rating
• Lifting and handling plans
• And more!

+ Infrastructure

Foscadh engineers have extensive experience in precast and concrete infrastructure. Below grade structures include utility vaults, box culverts, etc. Above grade structures include precast bridge components, full-depth precast bridge slabs, retaining walls, etc.

• Box culverts
• Utility vaults
• Manholes
• Vehicle rated buried structures
• Airport structures
• Precast concrete structures
• Prestressed bridge components
• Retaining walls
• Foundations
• Utility buildings
• Single span bridges
• And more!

+ Renovation

Repurposing old structures often entails unique design challenges not found in new construction. Foscadh engineers have long championed practical engineering solutions for existing structures. Our close work with contractors and tradesmen allows us to use a collaborative design process, ensuring that the design is not only functional but also tailored to the specific personnel working onsite.

• Evaluation and inspection of existing structures
• Strengthening of existing structures
• Column and/or wall removal evaluations
• Change of use for existing structures
• Structural feasibility studies
• Damage investigations
• Design of additions
• Seismic retrofit
• Designs to International Existing Building Code (IEBC)
• And more!

+ Repair

Foscadh engineers are experts in structural repair for residential, commercial, and industrial structures, and below-grade concrete infrastructure structures. Structural repairs are a complex engineering problem where experience and extensive structural engineering technical skill are required.

• Structural analysis and evaluation
• Steel corrosion analysis and repair design
• Concrete crack analysis and repair design
• Repair of damaged precast concrete
• Wood timber repair design
• Masonry wall repair design
• Foundation repair design
• Strengthening of existing structures
• Failure and collapse analysis and repair design
• Emergency shoring and support
• And more!

+ Buildings

• Double tees
• Hollow core
• Prestressed beams
• Precast columns
• Precast walls, including:
  • Tilt-up wall panels
  • Insulated wall panels
• Precast moment frames
• Precast structural connections
• Stairs and elevated slabs
• Precast foundations
• Lifting and handling of precast elements
• Precast stadium risers
• Custom, precast building members
• And more!