Structural Engineering Projects from Eugene, Oregon and Beyond

Near Westfir: survey, site design, land use and Forest Service coordination for a new 100-foot tower beside an existing compound on Dead Mountain.

Near Cheshire: structural design for a larger dining hall at Camp Lutherwood, the next step in the camp’s master plan, including an assessment of the existing building.

Springfield: A pre-engineered steel storage addition to a 37,000 sq ft manufacturing plant, with a hidden wall-panel problem found and repaired during construction.

Eugene: As-built drawings, wall design, egress study and a fast permit for a self-serve frozen yogurt wall in a busy burger restaurant near Valley River Center.

Veneta: Repairing rot-damaged floor framing and permitting an older wood-framed building in phases so it can serve as indoor dining for a food truck plaza.

Eugene: Permit drawings to reclad, re-window and update an office building for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, approved by the City in under three weeks.

Eugene: a ballasted, guyed anchorage for the finish line truss inside Hayward Field for the 2025 Eugene Marathon — no anchors into the ground.

Coos Bay: a new five-floor steel egress stair tower for the 1928 Hall Building, on drilled piles through about 100 feet of bay mud to bedrock.

Civil engineering for a 14-lot residential subdivision in Florence, Oregon, including the street, utilities, stormwater and a wastewater pump station.

Corvallis: a new 100-foot self-supporting steel tower replacing a decaying wood antenna pole on Marys Peak, taken through public land use approval and permit submittal.

Eugene: a larger replacement deck on a steep lot, on a steel beam and posts with its leading edge about 16 feet above grade.

Springfield: site review, civil site design with rain gardens, and value-engineered wood-framed structure for a new drive-through restaurant on Mohawk Boulevard.

Eugene: during the Lane Events Center reroof, we assessed rust-damaged steel roof deck and designed in-kind replacement details that kept the project moving.

Eugene: A fire-damaged six-unit apartment building rebuilt to current code with new trusses, an accessible unit, sprinklers and restored stairs and walkways.

Eugene: A steel moment-frame expansion of a grocery store’s loading dock canopy, designed for snow drift and joined to the existing structure, completed in 2020.

Structural and civil engineering for a studio and workspace addition at the KVAL broadcast facility in Eugene, Oregon.

Eugene: special inspection of micropiles, shotcrete walls, welding and post-tensioning on the seismic upgrade of a former department store.

Springfield: Conveyor pit, concrete push walls, sorter and office foundations, and site review to move a recycling operation into an existing warehouse.

Florence: steel moment-frame porte-cochere designed and permitted for the Masonic lodge, giving members a covered arrival on the Oregon coast.

Cottage Grove: A 90,000 sq ft former sawmill building scanned and assessed, then partly converted and permitted as a truck repair shop.

Florence: feasibility study, site and utility design, permit drawings and construction administration for a new 4,000-square-foot office building.

Otter Rock: foundations for a new 150-foot tower built around a working one, so the antennas stayed on the air during the changeover.

Oregon and Washington: about 50 jobs on some 27 Taco Bell restaurants — new stores, rebuilds, remodels and site-specific plan checks.

Eugene: Converting a Mill Street storage building into a small brewery and tasting room, with tank anchorage, code analysis and permit drawings.

Sisters: steel connections and a structural check for custom laminated wood LED light poles, with Sternberg Lighting and J.H. Baxter & Co.

Eugene: structural design for a 28-home co-housing community of wood-framed buildings and a common house on a riverside site.

Near Eugene: a modern riverside home with cantilevered steel corner beams and large glass walls, built with Six Degrees Construction.

Eugene, Springfield and Cottage Grove: pro-bono and discounted structural and civil work on about 30 Habitat for Humanity projects, 2004–2017.

Structural design for two additions to an operating meat packing plant near Eugene, Oregon.

Lyons: after a guyed tower collapsed into its neighbor, JBE planned a safe controlled demolition and permitted a single new 200-foot self-supporting tower.

Eugene: assessment, retrofit design and Fire Marshal certification of decades-old steel fire escapes on a former Greek house converted for university use.

Newport: Repair drawings to rebuild framing, a double-sided shearwall and the envelope after a sprinkler-stopped fire in a three-story senior apartment building.

Eugene: an underground wine cellar beside a home, with concrete retaining walls and a steel-framed patio roof over it.

Eugene: a new wood-framed office headquarters with exposed glulam framing and skylights over a central vaulted space.

Eugene: a 5,259 sq ft wood-framed school building, with civil and structural design, built over the summer of 2013.

Lowell: a pro bono repair design for the sagging ceiling and roof of the 1940 Lowell Grange hall, built so volunteers could carry it out.

Springfield: structural work to move a sheet metal fabricator into an existing metal building — offices with a storage loft, a removed post and a new awning.

South Eugene: retaining wall and wind and earthquake bracing for an open, light-filled custom house designed with Rodd Hansen, Architect.

Springfield: a concrete mat foundation for a six-unit Heidelberg press, held well inside the manufacturer’s deflection limit.

Eugene: moving a house onto a new foundation and strengthening it for commercial use, then a patio room and deck as the coffee house grew.

West Salem: a 200-foot guyed tower with rusted-through legs replaced by a new self-supporting tower on a mat foundation we designed and then certified.

Seaside: steel deck and lightweight concrete designed to replace rotting wood on the elevated exit walkways of a three-story oceanfront condominium building.

Structural analysis and design to convert a former clinic in Eugene, Oregon, into apartments, with a new townhouse addition.

Eugene: a 45,000 sq ft, two-story steel-framed addition to an existing church, designed for a design-build team.

Eugene: structural design and inspection of an interior mortise-and-tenon timber frame for a home built by Six Degrees Construction.

A passive solar home by Will Dixon, Architect, with an irregular plan and exposed structure; winner of an AIA Southwestern Oregon People’s Choice Award.