WHY?
This question drives our practice and the designs, analyses, and reports we produce for our clients.
WHY do buildings stand?
WHY do buildings fall?
WHY can't the structural design be more efficient?
WHY can't the structural design be architecturally friendly?
WHY can't the structural design be streamlined to the owner and contractor's needs?
By constantly questioning WHY, we refine to find better solutions, better ideas, and a better product for our clients.
This is WHY we are in practice.
WHY hire JPSE?
Because understanding your project and providing a high quality product that solves your problems and meets your needs and schedules is the priority of JPSE.
Because with a background that includes a diverse collection of project types, both large and small, your project can never be too large, too small, or too complex for JPSE's trademark attention to detail.
Because hiring a smaller firm ensures your project is being designed, produced, and overseen throughout by the engineer stamping the drawings, not an inexperienced engineer which is the case with many larger firms.
Because we feel indebted to you for trusting us with your project and feel this trust needs to be rewarded with great service and a great product.
If JPSE’s vision of the client/consultant relationship meets yours, maybe the question you should be asking isn't WHY but WHY NOT .
EXPERIENCE
Throughout his career, Jason has served as lead structural engineer and/or project manager on both small and large commercial and heavy industrial structures. He has been intimately involved in all project stages - project inception, preliminary design, budgeting, final analysis and design, drawing production, and construction administration. He has designed single and multi-story projects with concrete, structural steel, light gauge steel, masonry, and wood structures in areas with high seismicity and high wind velocities. He has been involved in ground up industrial plant projects and worked on designs built in existing plants.
Jason is recognized as a leader in the tornado safe room design community. He has been the lead engineer on numerous community safe rooms meeting FEMA P-361 and ICC-500 standards and was formerly the President of Remagen Corporation, a safe room producer. He gained national attention when he collaborated with Jim Waller to design the first school tornado safe room retrofit in the United States. His interest in the industry has lead him to become President of the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA), author articles on the subject and serve on professional committees that develop the industry’s standards.
Jason also provides forensic engineering and expert witness services through JPSE and VCE, Inc., a forensic consulting firm with offices through the United States. Focusing on building and construction related issues, he has produced forensic studies for attorneys and insurance companies and serviced as an expert witness for court actions.
Find more information on his experience at JASON PIRTLE, P.E.
FORENSIC ENGINEERING SERVICES
Failure Analysis
Building Assessment
Expert Witness Services
Patent Analysis for Infringement
Insurance Assessment
Adjuster Report Production
Peer Reviews
DESIGN ENGINEERING SERVICES
Commercial Structural Design
Industrial Structural Design
Residential Structural Design
Seismic Analysis and Design
Wind Analysis and Design
Tornado Shelter Design
Foundation Design
Retaining Wall Design
Steel Connection Design
Drawing Production
BIM Modeling
Peer Reviews
CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION SERVICES
Constructability Reviews
Site Observations
Shop Drawing Review
IBC Structural Observations
