
What makes Exponent's multidisciplinary approach to evaluating design and construction defects unique?
Evaluating building components and assessing the standard of care in construction projects is essential for ensuring safety, professional integrity, and reducing the risk of structural failure and harm to building occupants. Exponent has over 50 years of experience helping clients address challenges related to design and structural defects, faulty systems, and building component issues. Our multidisciplinary scientists and engineers provide comprehensive understanding, including investigation of root causes and determining required action for mitigation.
Capabilities
Exponent's Buildings and Structures team can help you identify potential structural defects and faulty systems as well as assess the standard of care for design and construction.
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.

Structural & Geotechnical Quantitative Risk Assessment
Innovative, quantitative risk assessments to support climate-change planning that helps protect buildings, infrastructure, and other valuable assets.

Structural & Geotechnical Design Support
Complex structural health and design support, with effective strategies to mitigate environmental impacts and degradation.

Testing & Analysis of Construction & Building Materials
Cutting-edge technical construction engineering and materials testing.

Construction Accidents
Accident investigation informed by 50+ years of failure analysis, including falls, equipment-related incidents, impacts and collapses.

Specialty Structures
From airports to green buildings, construction consulting for specialty structures requiring wide-ranging expertise to improve safety and performance.
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Structural Failures
Understand why buildings and structures fail, and how to prevent similar failures in the future.

Emergency Response
Rapid, data-driven engineering response to natural disasters, accidents, and human-made catastrophes.
Experts
Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.

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