Engineering Specialties, Hydrology, Disaster, Code & PM Forensics

The Practice

Natural Disaster Engineering Investigation

Following an extreme weather event or natural disaster, the integrity of a property can be negatively impacted. Maintaining structurally sound homes and other buildings is crucial to ensure the structure is safe for occupation. MarcorSEN Engineering has performed structural investigations of homes and properties impacted by rain, hail, wind, snow, fire, earthquakes, landslides, lightning, floods, tornadoes, tropical storms, hurricanes, and even volcanoes.

Damage Discovery

Obvious damage, and the damage that hides.

Natural events, even extreme events, will often cause both obvious and subtle damage. A forensic civil/structural engineer is tasked with discovering easily identifiable and not readily discernable damage following one or more of these events.

Licensed in over half the United States, MarcorSEN Engineering can respond rapidly to natural disasters across the country, and can quickly become licensed in other states where disasters occur. Consider retaining the firm's forensic services if your property has been hit by Mother Nature.

Weather

Hail damage
Wind damage
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Lightning

Geotechnical

Foundation
Settlement
Subsidence

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Selected Cases

Recent forensic work in this practice area.

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Post-hurricane inspections in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana

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Hurricane Ida, Louisiana

Post-hurricane inspections in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana

In the wake of Hurricane Ida, MarcorSEN Engineering performed multiple inspections of houses in New Orleans and other coastal cities in Louisiana, documenting both obvious and subtle structural damage to roofing, framing, and foundations while the evidence was still fresh.