2102 Carriage St SW Olympia, Washington 98502

Forensic Engineering, Investigations, Design, and
Expert Witness
Litigation Services

Nelson & McClure, PLLC is a structural and forensic engineering firm. We provide design services to a select group of clients and forensic investigation, claims, and litigation services to assist owners, contractors, design firms, insurance companies, and other clientele with investigations, claims, and litigation services. In addition, we provide plan review services to governmental agencies.

Our clients include governmental agencies such as cities, counties, and states; both defense and plaintiff attorneys; and insurance companies. We have worked as testifying experts, consulting experts, and insurance coverage experts. We have helped clients mitigate design, construction, and construction management issues of all kinds and work to prevent future problems. Decades of experience enable us to quickly investigate construction problems and evaluate them based on physical evidence, interviews, and the construction record.

Typical Project Types

We provide design, investigations, plan reviews, and expert witness work in the following areas:

Structural Engineering – We provide services in timber, steel, concrete, and masonry construction.
Foundation Engineering – We provide services in spread footings, pile foundations, and other foundation systems.
Retaining structures – We provides services in mechanically stabilized earth walls, concrete and masonry retaining walls, and soldier pile walls.
Slope stability – We provide services in some areas of slope stability and slope stabilization. Contact us for a discussion of your problem.
Construction management -- We provide services in areas of contract dispute and resolution, quality control and quality assurance, and disputes regarding ‘standard of the industry’ work.
Water intrusion – We provide services in some water intrusion areas. Generally, we can help with problems regarding flashing around decks, windows, doors, and water proofing of concrete and masonry walls.
Presentations – We will be pleased to make a presentation to your group regarding any of the above areas of service and about what one should and should not expect from an expert witness.