Services

Structures

Structures NEW

service overview

Multifaceted engineering services for buildings, infrastructure, and other structures.

Multifaceted engineering services for buildings, infrastructure, and other structures.

Structural designs must balance a range of parameters, including geometry, appearance, functionality, cost, constructability, sustainability, and performance to provide optimal solutions. When structures deteriorate, do not perform as intended, or fail, determining the cause is critical to understanding why. This knowledge helps us develop appropriate repair or restoration approaches when required and design durable new structures that perform well. SGH collaborates with our clients and project teams to understand the goals and takes advantage of our multidisciplinary expertise to provide solutions for many types of structural engineering projects.

Advancing the meaning of what’s possible.

specialized capabilities

Building Design

SGH helps project teams achieve their vision by developing creative and coordinated structural designs. Our experience in design, investigation, and rehabilitation enables us to tackle any structural design challenge for new or existing buildings.

Building Design

Repair & Strengthening

When a structure deteriorates or fails to perform as intended, a building undergoes a change in use/ownership or renovation, or jurisdictions require upgrades, SGH can design repairs and strengthening. We conduct assessments to understand the structure’s condition and develop strategies to extend the useful life, achieve the desired use, or improve the structure’s ability to withstand loads. We match the intervention strategy to the need, ranging from in-kind repairs to comprehensive strengthening programs, such as seismic retrofits.

Repair & Strengthening

Seismic Engineering

A structure’s ability to withstand a seismic event without experiencing an unacceptable functional loss also involves its ability to adapt to changing conditions and recover. SGH applies performance-based analyses and failure-risk assessments with traditional design approaches to develop solutions for new structural designs and seismic retrofits. Our technical experts are actively involved in committees that advance the industry’s understanding of earthquake effects and a structure’s response to the ground shaking.

Seismic Engineering

Temporary Construction

Successful projects rely on efficient and effective construction. Construction engineering bridges the gap between contract documents and executing the design. SGH helps the project team by assessing existing conditions, conducting field testing, and evaluating the risks and rewards of various means and methods approaches. Our multidisciplinary teams deliver practical engineering solutions along with temporary and permanent structural designs to help contractors accomplish the work.

Temporary Construction

Marine & Civil Works

Successful projects rely on efficient and effective construction. Construction engineering bridges the gap between contract documents and executing the design. SGH helps the project team by assessing existing conditions, conducting field testing, and evaluating the risks and rewards of various means and methods approaches. Our multidisciplinary teams deliver practical engineering solutions along with temporary and permanent structural designs to help contractors accomplish the work.

Marine & Civil Works

Geotechnical

No two sites are the same. Site conditions, including the soil, bedrock, groundwater, buried infrastructure, and adjacent construction vary from project to project, creating different sets of design and construction challenges. SGH understands these challenges and collaborates with our clients to mitigate inherent geotechnical risks and facilitate construction at the site.

 Geotechnical

Creative solutions for structural challenges.

client solutions

New Construction

New Construction

New Construction

Designing new elements of our built environment
Failure Investigation

Failure Investigation

Failure Investigation

Uncovering what went wrong
Repair + Rehabilitation

Repair + Rehabilitation

Repair + Rehabilitation

Extending the life of structures and infrastructure
Preservation

Preservation

Preservation

Restoring and protecting our most treasured buildings and artifacts
Evaluation

Evaluation

Evaluation

Analyzing conditions and advancing innovation