Structural Engineer in Hollywood, FL

M&P Consulting Engineers provides structural engineering, inspection and forensic services throughout Hollywood and southeast Broward County. The beachfront and Intracoastal condominium stock here is exactly the kind of building the firm works on daily: mid-century concrete frames carrying decades of salt exposure. Call 866-531-7621.

Structural Engineering Services in Hollywood

We handle structural condition assessment, concrete and balcony restoration engineering, milestone and safety inspections, structural design and analysis, plans review, forensic engineering and expert witness work.

Hollywood's coastal corridor is dense with 1960s and 1970s mid-rise and high-rise condominium buildings along A1A, the Broadwalk and the Intracoastal, plus a large stock of two- and three-story apartment buildings inland. Salt air and chloride exposure drive the same failure sequence in most of them: corrosion at the reinforcement, then cracking, then spalling at balcony edges, slab soffits and columns.

Boards here are usually working two clocks at once, a compliance deadline and a repair budget. We report on both: what the building needs structurally, and in what order it makes sense to fund.

Broward Safety Inspections and State Milestone Inspections

Broward County runs its own Building Safety Inspection Program, which starts at 25 years for most building types, not only condominiums. On top of that, residential condominium and cooperative buildings three or more habitable stories tall owe a state milestone inspection under Fla. Stat. 553.899. A Hollywood association can therefore owe both, on separate notices, even when one engineering site visit can inform both reports. See our Broward County building recertification page and our milestone inspections page for how each program works.

Concrete Restoration and Balcony Repair Engineering

Once an inspection identifies deterioration, someone has to design the repair. We prepare signed and sealed repair documents for concrete spalling, balcony slab edges, railing attachments, column and beam repairs, post-tensioned slab issues and waterproofing interfaces, and we can stay on through construction to observe the work.

Coastal repairs live or die on the details: cover over the steel, the transition between old and new concrete, and how water is kept out afterward. We specify those rather than leaving them to the contractor.

For buildings under threshold inspection requirements during the repair phase, Jonnatan R. Mendez holds the Special Inspector credential.

Forensic Engineering for Owners, Insurers and Counsel

When a structure fails or an owner disputes the cause of damage, we investigate and document it. That covers structural failures, storm and water damage, construction defect claims, balcony and railing incidents and premises liability matters.

Along the Hollywood beachfront the recurring questions are whether deterioration is storm-caused or long-term chloride corrosion, and whether a repair done years ago was designed and built correctly. Both are answerable from the structure itself.

Reports are written for the audience that has to act on them: cause and scope for an adjuster, code basis for a building official, findings that hold up in deposition for counsel. See our expert witness page.

Areas We Serve Around Hollywood

We work throughout Hollywood, from Hollywood Beach and the Broadwalk to Emerald Hills, Hollywood Hills, Dania Beach, Hallandale Beach and Pembroke Pines. Coverage continues north to Fort Lauderdale and south to Miami Beach.

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