FORENSIC ENGINEERING | FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE | FIRE ORIGIN & CAUSE

BUILDING STRUCTURAL
ASSESSMENTS

SOLVING COMPLEX ENGINEERING CHALLENGES

When disaster strikes or a structure fails, BSC’s team of experts is here to help. Our forensic engineers bring decades of experience in all aspects of building integrity assessments to your most difficult engineering challenges. We lead investigations for a wide range of industries and building types, including multifamily and high-rise residential, commercial, educational, municipal and government, industrial, retail, office, maritime and more—including complex and large loss assessments.

CONSTRUCTION DEFICIENCIES

Reach resolution faster after a failure by understanding what happened and why. With comprehensive building design and construction deficiency expertise, our forensic engineers are prepared to successfully lead the largest, most difficult assessments in the industry, including for high-rise developments and multi-building campuses.

  • Air and Water Leakage Assessment (Spray Testing)
  • Civil Engineering and Site Assessments
  • Code Compliance and Design Assessments
  • Fenestration Assessments
  • Flooring Assessments
  • Moisture Intrusion Assessments
  • Roofing and Cladding Assessments
  • Structural Framing and Foundation Assessments

BUILDING ENCLOSURE ASSESSMENTS

Determine how and why windows, cladding and other elements of a structure failed. Our forensic engineers combine decades of building enclosure expertise with technology-enabled tools like spatial analysis modeling to provide unparalleled scientific accuracy in investigation and reporting.

  • Air and Water Leakage Assessment (Spray Testing)
  • Fenestration Assessments
  • Roofing and Cladding Assessments

EVENT ASSESSMENT

Mobilize quickly for faster answers when catastrophes happen. We quickly dispatch our experts with trained field technicians and tech-enabled support through our Mobile BroadVan Field Offices to accelerate investigation and reporting.

  • Collapse
  • Date of Loss Assessments
  • Earthquake
  • Explosion
  • Fire
  • Flood
  • Hurricane
  • Leak
  • Lightning
  • Sinkhole
  • Snow and Ice
  • Storm Surge
  • Tornado
  • Tree Impact
  • Vehicle Impact
  • Wind, Rain and Hail

THE BSC FORENSICS DIFFERENCE

FORENSIC ENGINEERING EXPERTS

With industry-leading technology and field support, our experts lead thorough investigations and develop scientifically accurate, verifiable conclusions and accurate reports. BSC can quickly dispatch a team for large, complex investigations and execute seamlessly across all disciplines.

COMPLETE SUPPORT

We provide expert support for every step in the claims process, working with internal claims departments, third-party claims processors, and legal professionals through mediation, disputes, trials, and resolutions.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

Our industry-leading technology-enabled tools and processer include advanced on-site data collection, spatial analysis modeling, drone image capture, and much more accurate and verifiable results delivered faster.

LITIGATION SUPPORT

Our trial-tested experts support legal professionals with expert testimony, subrogation, technical review, non-disclosed consulting expertise and demonstrative
exhibits or graphics.

STRUCTURED FIELD
AND OFFICE SUPPORT

BSC’s highly skilled logistics coordinators, project managers, technical writers, and field technicians allow our experts to stay focused on the most important thing: developing scientifically accurate answers out customers need for fast, fair resolution.