A residential structural engineer is offering you some building engineering

services like a structural engineer of California does with an affordable

structural engineer cost.

Yes if you are a resident of the United State and planning to prepare a structural
design set and calculation for city approval. Then you are in the right place to
complete your project with an experienced residential structural engineer.

You may be from any city in the United States. We can provide quick structural
engineering service for your new home structural design and residential home
remodel design as a residential structural Engineer.

You might have any type of project like timber frame structural design, convert
garage to an accessory dwelling unit, cheap garage conversion ideas, single car
garage conversion ideas, small garage conversion ideas, and you need a report from
the residential structural engineer, etc.

Content List:

Who we are?
Our Specialty
What we do for your Project?
What Software do we Use?
Do we have a license in any city in the US?
When you need a Structural Engineer?
Load we Consider for Structural Design?
What Does Structural Engineering Firms Provide You?
What is Structural Engineer Cost for any Project?
How to Hire Us?
Check some of my completed projects in US
Residential engineering services
One of my big residential wooden structure design done as a residential structural
engineer
Who we are (Residential Structural Engineer)?
This is Md Moynnuddin, an experienced residential structural engineer and working
for more than 10 years in building engineering services. I am also working as a
home structural engineer on Upwork.com for more than 8 years.

Through my knowledge of structural design engineering, I have completed more than

300 hundred structural design projects. And still, I am working on various projects
from various cities of the United States.

Especially I have completed lots of projects in California sate like a structural

engineer in California do. I have done more than 200 projects in California states
with different sizes of the building including basement, multistoried, single-
family, double family, garage, ADU, etc.

Our Specialty:
Usually, we are a structural engineering consultancy like structural engineers of
California. ?Through our experience of doing Structural Design for more than 10
years, we are fully experienced in wooden building engineering services.

Any kind of residential home design in any state of the US with any volume. We can
complete structural design for any new or remodel project quickly and can also
prepare a structural report or structural calculation for submitting to the city.

Extremely trying to help our client with the approval of the project from any city
and we continue helping until the project is approved by the city. Any comments
coming from the city will be corrected by our residential structural engineer.
How much does a structural engineer cost
One of my big wooden house designs as a residential structural engineer
What we do for your Project?
When you have a project?,? where you have completed an Architectural drawing or
design? by an Architect? and you need to prepare construction drawings or
structural drawings? (Foundation plan, floor framing plan, roof framing plan, shear
wall plan, all required details, etc)? for getting approval from the city.

We can help you to produce this set of drawing with a calculation sheet using the
necessary software. And with our produced documents you can get approval from the
city but you need to get these documents to sign off by any US residential
structural engineer before submitting them.

What Software we Use??

For our structural engineering service, we use auto CAD software for drawing
presentations and customized excel sheets for the preparation of calculations. ?In
case of any requirement, we use Staad pro software for analysis.?

If there are any composite type buildings like having some steel columns or beams
then we use Staad Pro Software for analysis. Depending on the project there might
require some other software that we use like Etabs. ?

Do we have a license in any city in the US?

As residential structural engineers, we do not have any license in the US, we are
working from a remote country. We can prepare all the structural Engineering
related documents and you need to sign off the drawing from any licensed Engineer
from your city.

After getting a seal and sign from a local licensed engineer, you can submit them
to the City for approval. But note that any comments or corrections by the Sign-off
Engineer, we will correct and if there is any correction by the City then we will
change them.

If there is any change in the layout by Architect then additional typical

structural engineering fees will be applied. Until there is no architectural layout
change, there will be no extra fees for the correction assigned by the city or
licensed engineer.

Structural engineering services

One of my big residential wooden structure design done as a residential structural
engineer
When you need a Structural Engineer?
Well, there will be multiple conditions where you will need Building engineering
services. I am trying to make this understanding with some examples of conditions
you might have.

Single Family house structural design

One of my single family house design as a residential structural engineer
Any new project:
Say you have done Architectural design for the new land and you have all the
specifications for architecture and now need construction drawing set for city
approval and to start construction.

In the construction drawing, there will be all the information to construct the
building. And in the architectural drawing, there will be other information to
build the home. Any new project on fresh land is simpler to construct than any
renovation project.
In this case, the responsibility of our structural engineer for homes is easier
than the remodeling project. We can easily produce the required documents for city
approval without getting lots of information from the client. So, for the above
scenario, you are going to find a structural engineer.

A New Harage:
Garage conversion
One of my garage designs as a residential structural engineer
For parking the vehicle you certainly need a garage. If you want to make a separate
garage rather than attached to the main home, then you need to prepare first the
architectural drawing.

After then contact a residential structural engineer like structural engineers

California for structural drawing and design calculation. The structural
engineering service will make all the documents for you.

Structural drawing includes floor framing, roof framing, foundation layout drawing,
shear wall layout, and other required details. This entire required document will
be there for the city.

A New ADU:
Garage to ADU Conversion
One of my garage to ADU conversion design as a residential structural engineer
While you have the main building sometimes may need an Accessory Dwelling Units
(ADU) for additional storage adjacent to the building. Your main building might be
already constructed. But you right now need an ADU to build.

Certainly, you will need to take approval from the city. So, after preparing the
Architectural drawing contact building engineering services or structural engineer
California, if you are from California state for a structural drawing for
construction drawing set for city approval.

You can also contact us for wood consulting services. We can help you quickly
prepare structural drawings and calculations and you can easily take permission for
the ADU construction from the City.

A single family house:

When you have fresh land where you want to build a new single-family house.
Usually, a single-family house has 2 or 3 bedrooms with other features of a
standard building.

So, first, you need to contact an Architect and when the building layout or design
is ready then contact structural engineering firms like us for the structural
drawing preparation service or construction drawing preparation.

This structural engineering service will also provide calculations for city
approval. And easily you can get approval from the city. You will get support from
the residential structural engineer if any from the city.

A multiple family house:

When you have a large land for a new home, then you can make a multifamily house
like 2 flats per floor or 3 flats per floor. Multifamily houses are usually bigger
than single-family houses.

They need additional structural members for proper load transfer from framing to
the footing. Multifamily houses are sometimes critical for structural design. For
this kind of project structural Engineer cost might be a bit higher. In this case,
you have to find a residential structural engineer near me.
Garage converted to ADU:
Sometimes you might not need the existing garage and want to convert it to the
Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU). I have done so many garages to ADU conversions types
of projects. First, you need to make a proposed layout of ADU by the Architect
which you can get from any building engineering services.

After you have finished the proposed design or layout of the ADU then go to any
structural Engineering firms to complete the construction drawing along with
calculation for city approval. We also provide this structural design for a
residential house.

A load bearing wall removal:

In this case, there will be some interior walls removed. The walls might be load-
bearing or non-load bearing. For non-load bearing, no need to do anything but for
load-bearing walls effective measures are to be taken.

Non-load-bearing walls are partitioned walls. But for the load-bearing wall, the
load is to be transferred through new beams and columns into new footings. This
case is critical never to decide without any experienced residential structural
engineer.

Some interior wall change in existing family home:

In this case, there will be some interior walls removed. The walls might be load-
bearing or non-load bearing. For non-load bearing no need to do anything but for
load-bearing walls effective measures are to be taken.

Non-load-bearing walls are partitioned walls. But for the load-bearing wall, the
load is to be transferred through new beams and columns into new footings. This
case is critical never to decide without any experienced residential structural
engineer.

Some interior and exterior wall change:

Usually, exterior walls are load-bearing and in the case of the interior wall, they
might be load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls. Any change in the exterior wall,
there will be new footing or new beams with columns and footing. In this case, a
residential structural engineer is a must.

In the case of interior load-bearing walls need to introduce new members like a
beam, columns, and footing for perfect load transfer. For a non-load-bearing wall
no need to do anything. For any kind of change project, you need an old house
structural engineer.

Load do we Consider for Structural Design

Generally, we consider Live Load (LL), Dead Load (DL), Snow Load (SL), and for
lateral stability Wind and Earthquake load. Depending on project type, in some
cases, we consider only Dead and Live load.

Utilizing Wind and Earthquake load we calculate the Shear wall required around and
inside the building. If the project is located in a snow load area then we also
consider snow load for the roof member design.

Provided Documents by Structural Engineering Firms

Usually, they prepare construction drawings. In regards to wood consulting
services, a structural Engineer prepares footing or foundation drawing, floor
framing layout, ceiling joist layout, rafter or roof framing, shear wall layout,
all the required details.

From the structural engineering firm, you also get other information required to
approve any project from the city related to Structural Engineering. Any structural
engineering service will be responsible for any comments from the City for project
approval.

Idea of Typical Structural Engineering Fees

The most important thing is the cost of civil engineering services. Actually, it
depends on the project size. For any new single-family dwelling structural engineer
cost may be on average 250$-400$.

A multifamily house depends on the total project area and might be 400$-700$. Any
new garage or ADU maybe 150$-250$. Any garage to ADU conversion may be 150$. Except
that any additions project will be reviewed then we can say the actual consultancy
fees.

There might be only one beam design for load-bearing wall removal. Better if you
send your proposed drawing then our residential structural engineer can tell you
the exact structural engineer cost.

But keep in mind, the structural engineering service fee maybe even 2000-3000$ if
you have any larger project than usual.