What Wright Engineers does

Wright Engineers is a privately held structural engineering professional services firm headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, founded in December 1997 by Brent Wright with a $75,000 home equity loan. The firm delivers structural design, analysis, calculations, drawings, and construction-phase support for new construction and renovation projects across a diversified building-type portfolio that includes multi-family residential, hospitality (hotels, casinos, resorts), industrial/warehouse/tilt-up, healthcare, K-12 and higher education, municipal and federal, self-storage, office, retail, religious, senior housing, and entertainment/theme-park structures, as well as seismic evaluation and retrofit. Its primary customer segments are architects, builders/contractors, and property owners/developers, with named enterprise relationships spanning 10 to nearly 30 years (e.g., Lee & Sakahara Architects ~25 years; EV&A Architects ~three decades; Ware Malcomb ~12 years; Humphreys & Partners 20+ years).

The firm is licensed to practice in all 50 U.S. states and operates from nine strategically distributed offices across Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Orange County, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and St. George. Wright Engineers employs an industry-standard technology stack for structural design and BIM (RISA, RAM, Enercalc, AutoCAD, Revit, StruCalc, Bluebeam, Adapt, Excel), without disclosed proprietary technology. The business makes money on a project-based professional services model: fees are negotiated per project depending on scope, complexity, building type, and client requirements, with revenue earned through direct engagement with architects, contractors, developers, and property owners. The firm does not publicly disclose pricing or revenue.

Growth has been executed through a hybrid of organic multi-office expansion (early-2000s additions in Orange County, Phoenix, Salt Lake City; later eastward moves to Dallas, Atlanta, and Colorado; and the most recent openings of Fort Worth in May 2026 and St. George, Utah in April 2026) and two strategic acquisitions: STB Structural Engineers (2023, Southern California K-12/higher-ed specialist) and Fleming Structural PLLC (December 2024, Arkansas-based nationwide self-storage specialist). Leadership includes Founder and CEO Brent Wright, President Scott Jones, and regional VPs for Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Texas, with a dedicated business development function and a first non-engineer shareholder (Salvador Carrazco) added in August 2025.

Name

Wright Engineers

Legal name

Wright Engineers

Website

https://wrightengineers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Wright Engineers is a privately held structural engineering professional services firm, founded in 1997 in Las Vegas and licensed in all 50 U.S. states, serving architects, builders/contractors, and property owners/developers with project-based structural design across nine offices in the western and southern U.S.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Engineering Services (54133)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Structural engineering services
• Building design consulting
• Construction engineering
• Commercial building structures
• Multi-family engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Las Vegas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Structural Engineering Services: Project-based professional services revenue generated through structural engineering consulting for construction projects. Fees are determined per project based on scope, complexity, and project type. Revenue is earned through direct engagement with architects, contractors, developers, and property owners on new construction and renovation projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Wright Engineers provides structural engineering consulting services for building projects, including structural design, analysis, calculations, construction documents, and construction-phase support. The firm serves architects, builders, contractors, developers, and property owners across sectors such as multi-family residential, hospitality, industrial, healthcare, education, municipal, retail, self-storage, and entertainment. Services are delivered project-by-project through licensed structural engineers in nine U.S. regional offices, with engineering licenses in all 50 states.

Product overview

Wright Engineers is a structural engineering firm offering professional engineering services rather than a software product platform. The company provides structural engineering solutions for diverse building project types including education, multi-family residential, hospitality, industrial, healthcare, entertainment, office, municipal, retail, religious, senior housing, self-storage, and seismic evaluation/retrofit. Services include structural design calculations, drawings, project management, and construction-phase support. The firm operates as a unified service offering with no modular software products; clients engage Wright Engineers directly for structural engineering expertise on their construction projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering Services Wright Engineers provides structural engineering design, analysis, calculations, construction documents, and construction-phase support for new construction and renovation projects. The firm serves architects, builders, contractors, developers, and property owners across building types including multi-family residential, hospitality, industrial, healthcare, education, municipal, retail, self-storage, entertainment, and seismic evaluation/retrofit. Services are delivered through nine regional offices with engineering licensure in all 50 U.S. states.

Named customers9 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• STB Structural EngineerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcquired in 2023, STB Structural Engineers was a Southern California firm founded in 1962 renowned for expertise in K-12 and higher education facilities. The acquisition expanded Wright Engineers' education sector capabilities in California.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• KPFF Consulting Engineers: KPFF is one of the largest U.S. structural and civil engineering consulting firms with a similar distributed-office model and similar project-type diversity, making it the closest scale-and-strategy comparable to Wright Engineers.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: SGH is a national structural engineering consultancy with similar building-sector exposure (commercial, institutional, residential) and a reputation-driven culture directly comparable to Wright Engineers.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates: WJE is a nationally recognized engineering firm with strong expertise in structural investigation, repair, and retrofit — overlapping with Wright Engineers' existing-building evaluation and seismic retrofit service line.
• Martin/Martin: Martin/Martin is a mid-size structural and civil engineering consultancy serving similar building typologies (commercial, healthcare, education, multi-family) and is a comparable peer in the western U.S. structural engineering market.
• SK&A Structural Engineers: SK&A is a structural engineering firm with comparable building-type exposure (multi-family, healthcare, education, commercial) and concentrated mid-Atlantic/Mid-West delivery similar in scale and culture.

Broad incumbents

• Thornton Tomasetti: Thornton Tomasetti is a global engineering consultancy with a structural engineering practice that competes with Wright Engineers on large commercial and entertainment projects at a much larger scale.
• Buro Happold: Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy with structural engineering capabilities overlapping with Wright Engineers' hospitality, entertainment, and commercial work at significantly larger scale.
• AECOM: AECOM is a global infrastructure and engineering professional services firm whose buildings practice includes structural engineering that overlaps with Wright Engineers' commercial, hospitality, and education work.
• Arup: Arup is a global engineering consultancy with structural engineering capability overlapping with Wright Engineers across hospitality, entertainment, healthcare, and large commercial buildings.

Regional players

• Pacific Engineering & Design: Pacific Engineering & Design is a multi-office structural engineering firm in the western U.S. with comparable multi-family, hospitality, and commercial project exposure to Wright Engineers but a more regional footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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