Structural Engineering
Licensed Structural Engineering for Mass Timber, Steel, and Complex Construction Nationwide
When a connection fails on paper, it fails on the jobsite first — as a rejected submittal, a stack of RFIs, and a framing crew standing around waiting on an answer that should have been resolved months ago. The engineering behind a building rarely makes the spotlight, but it decides whether your project moves on schedule or stalls. At Lam-Wood Systems Inc., our in-house licensed Professional Engineers bring decades of combined experience to the structural challenges that determine whether a project gets built cleanly or fights you the entire way. From mass timber connections to steel detailing to the day-to-day support your field team needs, we deliver stamped, sealed engineering that holds up under review and performs in the field.
For years, Lam-Wood has been the partner contractors, fabricators, and developers rely on for engineered wood products and the technical drawings that bring them together. Structural engineering is the natural extension of that work. We already understand how these materials behave, how they connect, and where projects tend to go wrong. Now we put that knowledge to work earlier and deeper — engineering the connections, the support, and the lifting plans that keep your build moving from groundbreaking to final inspection.
A Single Engineering Partner for the Whole Build
Most projects fragment their engineering across multiple firms — one for connections, another for stairs, a specialty consultant for the timber, and yet another scrambled in at the last minute when something needs to be lifted into place. Every handoff is a chance for a detail to slip, a deadline to drift, or a coordination gap to surface at the worst possible moment. The result is a project owner managing a patchwork of engineers who don’t talk to one another.
Lam-Wood consolidates that work under one roof. Because our engineers, our drafting team, and our material expertise all live in the same building, the steel connection that ties into your mass timber beam is designed by people who understand both sides of that joint. That continuity is the difference between drawings that coordinate the first time and a revision cycle that eats your float. Whether you need a single scope handled or a partner who can carry the structural engineering across an entire project, our team scales to fit the work.
Engineering That Understands the Material
What sets Lam-Wood apart from a conventional engineering firm is that we’ve spent years supplying and detailing the exact materials we now engineer. Our structural engineering grows directly out of our work with engineered wood products, heavy timber and glulam, CLT and mass plywood panels, and custom steel hardware. When we design a mass timber connection, we know how that glulam member was manufactured. When we detail a steel connection into a timber column, we know exactly how the custom hardware needs to perform.
That material fluency means fewer assumptions, fewer field surprises, and designs grounded in how these systems actually behave once they leave the drawing and arrive on site. For developers and contractors building with mass timber — a category growing fast precisely because it’s sustainable, fast to erect, and beautiful when exposed — that experience is hard to replace.
Why Project Teams Choose Lam-Wood
General contractors choose us because we keep their crews working and their schedules intact. Fabricators choose us because our connection designs are clear, buildable, and detailed for the shop floor. Developers and architects choose us because stamped, sealed engineering from a single accountable partner removes risk from the most technical part of their project. And every one of them comes back because we treat their project the way they do — as something that has to be right, on time, and built to last.
Let’s Engineer Your Next Project Together
From a single connection detail to the structural engineering behind an entire mass timber building, Lam-Wood Systems Inc. has the licensed expertise and material knowledge to deliver. Contact us today to talk through your project’s engineering needs and find out how a single, accountable partner can keep your build moving. Contact our engineering team or call us at 303-458-1736.