Piotr S.

Licensed Professional Engineer in NY, FL, TX, CO, MN, NC, WI, ND, SD, IA and PEng in Ontario, with lapsed but easily renewable PEng licenses in BC, SK, AB and MB. I have 15 years of structural engineering experience in the USA, Canada and Europe, with a portfolio of approximately 200 completed projects, including mid‑rise buildings up to 16 stories. My work spans residential and mixed‑use projects in New York City as well as community and agricultural structures across the Midwest and Canada. I design with all commonly used structural materials: concrete (reinforced, cast‑in‑place, precast, post‑tensioned), steel (including thin‑walled/light‑gauge and composite), masonry and timber. My responsibilities typically cover the full project lifecycle: conceptual meetings with owners and architects, structural analysis and design (static and dynamic), multidisciplinary coordination, and assisting contractors during construction. I routinely work in a multibranch coordination environment and still perform drafting when needed. My experience includes a wide range of foundation systems: spread and isolated footings, auger‑cast, helical and timber piles, drilled micropiles, driven W/HP sections, secant pile walls and raft foundations, often in challenging conditions such as high groundwater table. I have designed less common solutions such as 16 ft long post‑tensioned cantilever slabs at each level of a six‑story overhang above another building, and a six‑story residential building framed entirely in cold‑formed light‑gauge steel. Many projects involved extending or replacing foundations (deeper cellars, vertical additions) without compromising the stability of existing occupied floors in dense lot‑line conditions, where support of excavation design was as demanding as the superstructure. Although my background is primarily structural, I can also support civil engineering tasks. I am proficient in soil mechanics, underground and municipal structures and have familiarity with road and railway projects. A broad engineering perspective and solid theoretical grounding help me quickly understand complex problems and develop safe, efficient solutions and robust numerical models. I am fluent in several programming languages and write custom engineering tools for non‑typical tasks, fully leveraging commercial software and my own applications. With strong engineering intuition and daily experience working with owners and architects in the competitive New York City market, I focus on guiding all parties toward optimal, constructible, and cost‑effective designs.