Vision

Cascadia Engineering's job is to support your vision. We endeavor to bring our experience and expertise to the design process in a collaborative way, with an emphasis on finding our way to saying “yes” to the design options you’re most excited about. At the end of the day, our goal is to midwife your project into this world by supplying our particular engineering expertise to the structural planning, and by being proactive in our communications with the rest of the design team.

Building Approaches

Conventional Building: We have been working with wood, concrete and steel for decades and bring that expertise to your project in service to your vision. We are profoundly intimate with the ins-and-outs of conventional wood framing, concrete and CMU retaining walls & footings, steel moment frames, pier and grade beam foundations and beyond. And we care deeply about making sure all of those elements come together to serve your project in a good way.

Green Building: For people focused on building as green as possible, oftentimes local building codes and officials lag behind the cutting edge of the sustainability movement's practices (whether they be new technologies or very, very old ones).  Cascadia Engineering, Inc. has experience in working with city bureaucrats to help bring them up to speed on what is safe and ecological, and in ensuring that no one has to choose between getting a permit and being sustainable. And we have an internal value in finding a way to say “yes” to environmentally conscious features (Solar panels? Sure thing. Rooftop gardens? Absolutely! Straw bale walls in an earthquake zone? Been there, done that…). One small part of this manifests in our commitment to bicycling as much as possible, both on and off the job. So don’t be surprised if your engineers show up for a site inspection on two wheels and slightly out of breath!