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Forensic Engineering Award
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE register ↗Certified Engineering Inc
Forensic and structural engineering.
Structural failure investigation, computational analysis, reverse engineering, and expert testimony for government, institutional, and international clients.
Dr. Erik Khanbabaian
Founder & Principal Engineer
Ph.D. Columbia · Ph.D. Illinois
$7B+
Asset value under engineering stewardship
4
International honors in structural engineering
2
Doctorates in structural & forensic engineering
9
Practice disciplines
The Firm
An engineering practice built around evidence.
Certified Engineering Inc is a forensic and structural engineering practice. The firm investigates structural failure, establishes cause, and produces analysis that holds up under the scrutiny it will not choose — opposing experts in litigation, audit under public contract, and peer review before a code body.
The practice is retained by government agencies, institutional owners, insurers and their counsel, and international clients. Its work spans buildings, bridges, and industrial structures, and covers the full arc of a matter: first inspection, evidence preservation, computational analysis, written opinion, and testimony.
Practice
Nine disciplines.
Investigate first, model second, conclude last — and document all three so another engineer can follow the same path to the same finding.
Recognition
Four international honors in structural engineering.
Each award links to the conferring institution's own published register.
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International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
IABSE register ↗03
OPAL Award — Outstanding Projects And Leaders
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE register ↗04
Gold Medal
The Institution of Structural Engineers
IStructE register ↗Experience
Representative engagements.
The substantial majority of forensic work is privileged or under protective order. Engagements are therefore described by type, structure, and scope.
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Progressive collapse investigation
Post-tensioned concrete structure
Forensic engineering
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Fracture-critical assessment
Long-span steel bridge
Bridge engineering
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Envelope distress investigation
High-rise building enclosure
Materials & failure analysis
Principal
Dr. Erik Khanbabaian
Founder & Principal Engineer
- Doctorate
- Columbia University
- Doctorate
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Forensic engineering is the discipline of arriving after the fact and establishing what actually happened. Most structural engineering is predictive; forensic work runs the other way — a structure has already behaved, and the engineer reconstructs the load history, the material state, and the sequence that produced it.
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