Fink Roberts & Petrie

What Fink Roberts & Petrie does

Fink Roberts & Petrie, Inc. (FRP) is a structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1944 and headquartered at 3535 East 96th Street, Suite 126 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm offers four core service lines — Structural Design, Investigations, Restorations, and Seismic Assessment — applied to buildings and infrastructure using concrete (post-tensioned and cast-in-place reinforced), structural steel, composite steel framing, structural steel trusses, and complex architectural systems. Marquee engagements include Structural Engineer of Record for Lucas Oil Stadium (excluding roof), the Cummins nine-story 204,000 GSF Distribution Headquarters, the $218 million Knauf Fiberglass manufacturing expansion in Shelbyville, and higher-education projects at Ball State, Purdue, Butler, and Notre Dame. Operating geographies span Indiana and the broader Midwest with select out-of-state engagements (e.g., Hyatt dual-branded hotel in Denver, Colorado), and the firm maintains LEED certification experience across its portfolio.

FRP operates a project-based professional services model, billing negotiated fees per engagement directly to clients. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, targeting three primary buyer groups: architects and design firms, facility owners (corporations, universities, healthcare systems, government entities), and general contractors. Customer concentration spans diverse end-verticals — civic, cultural, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, industrial, office, parking, recreation, K-12 schools, sports, warehouse, and water infrastructure — mitigating single-sector dependency. Distribution is purely direct, augmented by a website portfolio and industry event presence rather than partner channels or app-based offerings.

The firm employs an estimated low-to-mid 20s of technical staff (headcount bracket 11–50), including two Vice Presidents (one of whom is Chief Structural Engineer), three Principals, a Controller, multiple Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Project and Staff Engineers, and Senior BIM Designers. Ownership is private and management-oriented, with no identified parent company, institutional investors, or funding events. A leadership transition occurred in January 2024 with the promotion of Melissa Stump, PE to President, while predecessor Bill Horton retained a Principal (Past President) role. Three engineering hires were added in 2024 (March and June), suggesting deliberate capacity expansion rather than replacement hiring.

Name

Fink Roberts & Petrie

Legal name

Fink Roberts & Petrie, Inc.

Website

https://frpinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1944

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fink Roberts & Petrie is a structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1944 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, providing structural design, investigation, restoration, and seismic assessment services to architects, facility owners, and contractors across the Midwest and select U.S. markets.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Indianapolis

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 services revenue derived from providing structural engineering design, investigations, restorations, and seismic assessment services to architects, facility owners, and contractors on construction projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Fink Roberts & Petrie (FRP) is a structural engineering consulting firm that provides design, investigations, restoration, and seismic assessment services for buildings and infrastructure. The firm serves architects, facility owners, and contractors across civic, cultural, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, industrial, office, parking, recreation, K-12 schools, sports, warehouse, and water sectors. Services cover concrete (post-tensioned and cast-in-place), structural steel, composite steel framing, and structural steel trusses for new construction and existing structure rehabilitation.

Product overview

Fink Roberts & Petrie (FRP) is a structural engineering firm offering a unified portfolio of professional services including Structural Design, Investigations, Restorations, and Seismic Assessment. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the firm has 81 years of experience providing structural engineering services for diverse project types including civic, cultural, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, industrial, office, parking, recreation, schools, sports, and warehouse facilities across a wide geographic region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Design Services
• Structural Investigations
• Structural Restorations
• Seismic Assessment

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates: National structural engineering firm with a renowned Investigations/Restorations/Failure Analysis practice comparable to FRP's core restoration and seismic assessment offerings, serving similar institutional, civic, and commercial clients.
• Magnusson Klemencic Associates: Structural and civil engineering consultancy specializing in complex building structures including sports venues, healthcare, and high-rise work; directly comparable in technical profile and target project types to FRP.
• Walter P Moore: Midwest-rooted structural engineering consultancy providing design, diagnostics, and restoration services for stadiums, healthcare facilities, universities, and civic structures—an almost identical service portfolio and client mix to FRP.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: Structural engineering firm with strong Investigations and Building Restoration practices plus new-design work for commercial, institutional, and infrastructure clients—mirroring FRP's full-service structural scope.
• Thornton Tomasetti: Global structural engineering consultancy with applied-science/research capabilities spanning design, forensics, and restoration; a peer on large and complex structural projects where FRP also competes.

Broad incumbents

• Burns & McDonnell: Large multi-discipline engineering firm with structural capabilities serving industrial, commercial, and institutional clients; competes with FRP for similar Midwest-based facility owner engagements but within a much broader service portfolio.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm; competes with FRP on institutional and civic structural projects via its Buildings practice, though as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Buro Happold: International engineering consultancy with a strong structural engineering practice on complex civic, cultural, and higher education projects—a broader-scale incumbent that competes for marquee structural engineering engagements.
• WSP: Global professional services firm with property and buildings structural engineering practices serving higher education, healthcare, and transportation clients—a broad incumbent that competes with FRP on large institutional work.
• Arup: Global engineering consultancy with a substantial structural engineering practice serving sports, healthcare, higher education, and cultural projects—the type of marquee work FRP targets, though at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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