Prindle Engineering, Inc.
Prindle Engineering, Inc.
Specializing in Forensic Geotechnical and Civil Engineering
Forensic Engineering
Forensic Engineering
Structures fail, collapse, sink, or shift for a number of reasons. The goal of Forensic Engineering is to establish the cause of the failure and to resolve or mitigate the issues that are causing the failure by creating and implementing a repair plan.
Prindle Engineering, Inc. gathers and evaluates visual evidence together with geotechnical, structural, and drainage data to reconstruct event sequences and to establish cause-and-effect relationships when conducting a distress or failure investigation.
Forensic investigations may include:
- soil and foundation analysis
- review of original design and design assumptions
- comparison of design and as-built conditions
- review of structure's historical data (timeline of distress)
- detailed inspection and photo documentation of observed conditions
- construction material analysis
- site grading and drainage analysis
- review of construction quality control data
- floor elevation survey and analysis
- shear-wave velocity measurements and analysis
- drilling, sampling, and geotechnical laboratory testing of soils
- Cone Penetrometer testing (CPT)
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) testing
- excavation for inspection of as-built foundations
- excavation for observation of in-place soil conditions
- leak detection testing
- pipe video inspection
- 3D CAD modeling of site conditions and geotechnical data
- excavation for soil analysis
Once testing is completed and problems identified, Prindle Engineering strives to provide our clients with constructable and economical solutions. As this can be a traumatic experience for the owner, especially a home owner, Robert Prindle P.E., President/CEO, is available to our clients 7 days/week.
A list of projects may be made available upon request.