We are first and foremost structural engineers, but given our experience working with a wide variety of clientele in disparate sectors around the world, we’ve learned that sometimes the answer to your challenges isn’t a structural engineered one. And we promise to tell you if that’s the case. We’ve advised clients on how to adjust their activities to avoid needing to invest heavily in new or retrofitted facilities, how to reduce their risk with low-cost options that don’t involve major changes to infrastructure, and how to best approach business development opportunities in the competitive industries of design, fabrication, and construction. We also contribute to standards development in our industry to help ensure safe and efficient design and construction processes for the long-term.

FEC offers investigative and reporting services for structural forensics (following failures), expert witness testimony, and peer review. We can also provide seismic risk assessment and retrofit design for risk reduction in accordance with the IEBC, ASCE 41, and local requirements.

We provide analysis and equipment inspection of material handling systems for manufacturers and distributers. Our experienced engineers can handle any job large or small from concept to finished product.

Frost Engineering & Consulting has designed a wide range of infrastructure components at data and telecommunications centers, including buildings with server storage and office space; utility framing to support indoor server rooms; indoor and outdoor pipe racks to support server coolant conduits, support frames for generators, transformers, and coolant systems; rooftop dunnage structures, and acoustically insulated boundary walls for data center sites. These types of facilities are often constructed or retrofitted under mission-critical conditions, and we have a unique toolkit of design-build aids, specialty materials that are procured and installed rapidly such as pultruded FRP, and construction administration experience to get your center constructed quickly so your systems can be up and running immediately.

Would your project benefit from specialized materials design for cost, installation speed, robustness, corrosion resistance, or constructability? Frost Engineering is one of the few firms in our region that designs and produces engineer-of-record (EOR) and shop drawings for delegated design services of cold-formed steel, helical piles, and pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP). Cold-formed steel can be used as exterior cladding, infill, and even load-bearing roof, floor, and wall framing. Helical piers provide quick and reliable foundations for buildings on poor soils as well as slopes or instances with large uplift loads. We are also one of the only structural design firms in the world that designs projects with pultruded FRP. Due to its non-corrosive material properties, pultruded FRP framing solutions may be ideal for infrastructure exposed to harsh outdoor environmental conditions (e.g., salts from sea spray or from roadway de-icing treatments) or from caustic industrial conditions (e.g., chemical processing). Due to its light-weight and domestic production, pultruded FRP framing can be manufactured, fabricated, delivered, and installed in rapid fashion compared to heavier traditional infrastructure materials, making it ideal in mission-critical construction projects. To help meet our client’s needs, we’ve even pursued experimental testing of novel FRP framing connections.

Whatever design or modeling services you need, FEC can provide you with the support you need. FEC serves as the Engineer of Record (EOR), delegated design engineer, or the review engineer for design projects in the commercial, industrial, multi-residential, educational, medical, and data sectors. FEC supplies engineered sealed plans, 3D models for conflict avoidance, and engineered calculations where required. FEC designs buildings and industrial facilities with various construction methods and materials, including but not limited to hot-rolled steel, cold-formed steel, concrete, masonry, pultruded FRP, open-web steel joists, aluminum, and timber.

FEC can carry out special inspections and testing as required by IBC Chapter 17. With access to field and laboratory material testing equipment and years of experience in reporting on construction, FEC can quickly provide the construction support you need to stay on schedule.