Damage Investigations—Anything that is Damaged, Any Way, Any How
For over 35 years, professionals throughout the country and internationally have turned to Douglas G. Peterson & Associates, Inc., Multidiscipline Damage Engineers™, with over 1,000 engineers and technical specialists located throughout the country, for solutions through forensic engineering investigations into the cause, cost, and downtime engineering aspects of commercial, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and technology property damage and personal injury.
Often, the investigations involve routine structural, mechanical, or electrical damage engineering problems involving building or equipment damage or personal injury; other times, they involve more complexity or a need for a great deal of sophistication, being a single source to meet our clients' damage engineering needs to assist them in dealing with the major collapse of a building, a plant explosion, major infrastructure damage, or state-of-the-art equipment damage.
All commercial, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, and technology sites are designed and constructed using a combination of a relatively few, similar building components and types of equipment that vary in levels of sophistication. The combinations can be very specialized and sometimes proprietary. That is why we have developed such an extensive national network of associates as we conducted thousands of damage engineering investigations over the last 38 years into damage that occurred during construction, startup, or more often, while in use. Some examples:
- Buildings: foundations, structural supports, HVAC, elevators, escalators, roofing, building envelopes...
- Trade centers
- Office buildings and office complexes
- Financial institutions
- Municipal, state, and federal buildings
- Strip malls, malls, mega-malls
- Convention centers and casinos
- Hotels and resorts
- Condominiums and apartment buildings
- Warehouses and refrigerated storage facilities
- Hospitals and health care facilities
- Equipment: malfunctions, failures, explosions...
- Boilers, gas, steam, hydro and wind, turbines, pumps, compressors...
- Motors, generators, transformers, X-ray machines...
- HVAC, elevators, escalators...
- Production equipment: roofing machines, paper machines, printing presses...
- Electronic controls: control rooms, alarm systems, robotics...
- Transmission equipment: gas, oil, electrical, telecommunications...
- Whole plants...
- Automobile parts manufacturing and assembly plants
- Electrical generating plants
- Pharmaceutical plants
- Machine shops
- Refineries
- Foundries, steel mills, aluminum plants
- Paper mills
- Food processing plants
- Power generation facilities