What Cagley & Associates does

Cagley & Associates is a privately held structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1973 and headquartered at 6141 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Maryland. The firm delivers all phases of structural engineering for building projects, including conceptual studies, preliminary design, final design, working drawings, specifications, and on-site construction observation, alongside design/build engagement. It maintains a diversified practice across government, educational, healthcare, commercial, hospitality, and residential sectors, with a portfolio that includes the FBI Central Records Complex, the IRS National Headquarters Complex in New Carrollton, NIH's John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center and Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters at St. Elizabeth's, NAVSEA Systems Command Headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard, NOAA Satellite Operations Facility, and the U.S. Embassy Office Complex in Cairo, alongside higher education and healthcare projects for institutions such as the University of Maryland, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins, Towson University, Valley Health System, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Sibley Memorial Hospital.

The practice's specialized capabilities include progressive collapse analysis and blast-resistant design aligned with current GSA and DOD guidelines (applicable to both new and existing structures), seismic design, parking structure rehabilitation, and forensic engineering and peer review. Underlying technical work is performed with computer-aided design and analysis software applied across reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, thin shell, masonry, wood, and structural steel. The team comprises licensed professional engineers with multi-state licensure across 18+ states and degrees from programs including Penn State, Cornell, Catholic University, Worcester Polytechnic, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, and Syracuse; multiple principals hold leadership roles in American Concrete Institute, American Institute of Steel Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington.

Cagley & Associates earns revenue on a project-based professional services fee model negotiated per engagement with architects, developers, government agencies, building owners, healthcare systems, and educational institutions; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and reputation-driven, with no public marketing spend, no social channels, no app product, no API, and no disclosed funding or external ownership. Services are delivered through direct client engagement with no third-party distribution layer. The firm has operated continuously for over 50 years as a principal-owned partnership (partners include James R. Cagley, Frank S. Malits, Daniel Camp, Debrethann R. Cagley Orsak, James C. Lakey, Carmine Filoia, and Melissa A. King) and shows no public indicators of growth investment, capital raise, M&A, or strategic restructuring.

Name

Cagley & Associates

Legal name

Cagley and Associates

Website

https://cagley.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1973

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cagley & Associates is a privately held structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1973 and based in Rockville, Maryland. It provides all phases of structural design, analysis, and construction observation for government, healthcare, education, commercial, hospitality, and residential buildings, with specialized capabilities in progressive collapse, blast-resistant, and seismic design.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Consulting 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 consulting
• Building design services
• Construction administration
• Forensic engineering
• Seismic design services

Headquarters

HQ city

Fisher

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Structural Engineering Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing structural engineering expertise covering all phases of design, construction, renovation, and repair. Services include conceptual studies, preliminary design, final design, working drawings, specifications, and on-site construction observation.
2. Design/Build Project Services: Engagement in design/build projects where the firm provides structural engineering services as part of integrated project delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cagley & Associates provides full-service structural engineering consulting covering all phases of design, construction, renovation, and repair for building structures. Services span conceptual studies, preliminary and final design, working drawings, specifications, and on-site construction observation, with specialized capabilities in progressive collapse and blast-resistant design, seismic design, parking structure rehabilitation, forensic engineering, peer review, and design/build delivery. The firm serves government, healthcare, higher education, commercial, hospitality, and residential building clients across the Mid-Atlantic and beyond.

Product overview

Cagley & Associates is a structural engineering consulting firm offering a unified portfolio of engineering services for the building industry. The core offering is comprehensive structural engineering consulting spanning all project phases—from conceptual studies and preliminary design through final construction documents and on-site observation. Specialized capabilities include progressive collapse and blast-resistance design (aligned with GSA and DOD standards), seismic design, forensic engineering, and parking structure rehabilitation. The firm also provides peer review services and participates in design/build delivery. These services support a diverse project portfolio across commercial, educational, government, healthcare, hospitality, residential, and office building sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering Consulting Services Full-service structural engineering consulting spanning conceptual studies, preliminary and final design, working drawings, specifications, and on-site construction observation for building structures. Engagements serve architects, developers, government agencies, healthcare systems, educational institutions, and building owners across commercial, healthcare, government, hospitality, educational, and residential sectors.
• Progressive Collapse Analysis and Blast-Resistant Design Evaluation and structural design to mitigate progressive collapse and resist blast effects, executed in accordance with current GSA and DOD guidelines for both new and existing structures. Targeted at federal, military, and security-sensitive building clients.
• Seismic Design Services Specialized structural engineering services to design buildings that withstand seismic and earthquake forces, applied across new construction and renovation projects.
• Parking Structure Rehabilitation Structural engineering expertise in the rehabilitation of parking structures, addressing structural deterioration, repair, and restoration needs for owners of existing parking facilities.
• Forensic Engineering Investigation and analysis of structural failures and structural condition assessments of existing buildings, supporting owners, insurers, attorneys, and design teams in determining cause and remedial needs.
• Structural Peer Reviews Independent structural review services for quality assurance and compliance verification on construction projects, typically commissioned by owners, contractors, or design teams to validate structural designs prepared by others.
• Design/Build Structural Engineering Services Collaborative structural engineering services integrated with design/build construction delivery, providing structural design as part of combined design-construction teams on integrated project delivery engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 200 higher education projects designed spanning millions of square feet across the country and internationally

Named customers26 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Burns & McDonnell: Burns & McDonnell is a large employee-owned engineering firm with a structural practice that competes for federal, healthcare and higher-ed projects. Similar employee-owned structure and federal exposure, but materially broader scope (MEP, EPC, environmental).
• Buro Happold: Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy with a structural practice that competes for higher education, healthcare and cultural facilities. Comparable technology stack and service model but with much greater scale and geographic diversification.
• Arup: Arup is a global engineering consultancy whose buildings practice covers structural design, seismic and security design. Overlaps on higher-ed and federal/institutional projects but at vastly larger scale and breadth.
• Thornton Tomasetti: Thornton Tomasetti is a much larger global structural engineering firm with notable forensics, security design and high-rise expertise. Overlaps with Cagley's GSA/DOD and higher-ed portfolios but operates at a meaningfully larger scale and broader geography.

Direct peers

• SK&A Structural Engineers: SK&A is a smaller structural-only consultancy with a comparable mid-Atlantic origin story and deep DC-area institutional portfolio. Strongly comparable in size, ownership structure and project mix.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH): SGH is a structural engineering and applied science firm with deep work in forensics, rehabilitation and blast/security-sensitive design. Strong overlap with Cagley's GSA/DOD, parking rehabilitation and peer review capabilities.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE): WJE is widely regarded for structural forensics, evaluation of existing structures and rehabilitation — overlapping directly with Cagley's parking rehab, forensic and peer review services and serving institutional clients with similar project economics.
• TYLin International: TYLin is a global engineering firm with structural engineering practice areas serving buildings, airports and infrastructure. Comparable as a structural consulting peer competing for institutional and public-sector work.
• Walter P Moore: Walter P Moore is a structural and civil engineering firm with comparable mixes across healthcare, education, government and sports/civic work. Direct competitor for institutional and federal campus projects.
• KPFF Consulting Engineers: KPFF is a privately held structural and civil engineering consultancy with a strong higher education, healthcare and commercial portfolio and a similar owner-operated culture. Most directly comparable peer in size, mix and reputation-driven GTM.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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