A National Forensic Engineering Firm that Focuses on Damage and Personal Injury
As Multidiscipline Damage Engineers™ with over 1,000 engineers and technical specialists located throughout the United States and some overseas, Douglas G. Peterson & Associates, Inc., routinely deals with the forensic engineering cause, cost, and downtime questions associated with damage or injury, providing clear, understandable, forensically sustainable opinions in response to our clients' questions. The breadth of our damage engineering practice keeps us at the cutting edge of the economy.
We coined a trademark, Multidiscipline Damage Engineers™, to convey that we are a forensic engineering firm with a difference: We deal with the Cause, Cost and Downtime aspects of virtually all types of physical damage to commercial, manufacturing, infrastructure, and energy property and engineering aspects of personal injury.
Since 1971, Douglas G. Peterson & Associates, Inc., has been a leader in providing damage engineering investigations in a very wide range of damage and injuries; providing objective answers to our clients’ damage questions nationwide. We keep routine investigations simple and make complex investigations understandable, throughout all aspects of the economy. We have extensive experience with buildings, equipment, whole plants—from light commercial to Fortune 50 companies: be it $100,000 or a billion dollars in repairs and downtime.
We are your one source for forensic engineering investigations. We answer our global client base’s cause, cost, and downtime questions:
Cause:
- What was the cause?
- How did the damage unfold? What was the chain of events?
- Often the site is available for inspection before it is significantly disturbed
- Frequently we are asked to reconstruct what happened solely from available records, artifacts, and witness statements
Cost:
- What is the scope of damage?
- What is the impact of sustainability?
- Are the repairs appropriate?
- Do they include any maintenance, betterments, or prior damage?
- How much should it cost to repair the subject damage?
- We monitor the repairs—on-site (clerk of the works), frequent site visits, or single site visit
Downtime:
- What are the critical paths (longest sequence(s) of repair tasks)?
- What are tolling options?—How can production be maintained through others (outsourcing)
- How can operations be changed to minimize the impact of the damage?
- What are the best ways to expedite the repairs?
DGPA is also your source for Design Engineering including the following disciplines:
Structural engineering:
- Pre-purchase/due diligence studies
- Feasibility and cost studies
- New and existing building structural design
- Peer reviews of existing designs
- Value engineering
- Engineering solutions to sustainable goals