Structures North Consulting Engineering

What Structures North Consulting Engineering does

Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a privately held structural engineering and historic preservation consulting firm incorporated in 1997 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. The firm operates with a 7-person team led by founder John Wathne P.E. and principals Edward H. Moll II P.E. and Greg Nowak P.E., providing diagnostic consulting, structural evaluation, stabilization, restoration, and adaptive re-use design services for historic structures, alongside residential and commercial new construction. Core technical capabilities span masonry (Portland brownstone, fired clay, dry/wet laid stone), timber framing and towers, early steel and cast iron, and accessibility upgrades, supported by AutoDesk Revit BIM, custom Excel-based planning tools, and non-destructive testing methods including sonic tomography and Ground Penetrating Radar.

The firm's revenue model is professional services project-based consulting, billed on custom quotes with no public pricing. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, with engagements originating from architectural firms (Ann Beha, CBT Architects, Ellenzweig, Stella Architecture, Woodman Associates, McGinley Kalsow, Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype), government entities (U.S. National Park Service, Town of Marblehead, City of Newburyport, North Adams Public Schools, Commonwealth of Massachusetts DCAM), educational institutions (Harvard Divinity School, Suffolk University), religious organizations (Hancock Church, First Parish Wayland, Vilna Shul), and a financial institution (Institute for Savings). Operations are concentrated in New England, with selected out-of-region landmark projects (Fort Morgan in Alabama). Founder John Wathne's leadership of the ASTM Historic Mortars Task Group and Edward Moll's presidency of SEA-MASS reinforce the firm's standing in preservation standards and specification-driven work.

Name

Structures North Consulting Engineering

Legal name

Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Website

https://structures-north.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Structures North Consulting Engineers is a 7-person Salem, Massachusetts-based structural engineering firm specializing in historic preservation, restoration, masonry, timber, and adaptive re-use projects. Founded in 1997, it serves architectural firms, government entities, universities, and religious institutions across New England.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330)

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
• Historic preservation services
• Building restoration engineering
• Adaptive reuse consulting
• Masonry restoration services

Headquarters

HQ city

Salem

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Professional structural engineering consulting services billed on a project basis. Services include structural evaluation, design, restoration, preservation, and construction administration for historic and new construction projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a professional structural engineering and historic preservation consulting firm providing diagnostic consulting, evaluation, stabilization, restoration, and design services for historic and new structures. The firm specializes in masonry, timber framing, early steel and cast iron construction, and adaptive reuse projects across commercial, institutional, civic, religious, and residential markets in New England.

Product overview

Structures North Consulting Engineering is a structural engineering and historic preservation consulting firm incorporated in 1997. The company offers a unified suite of consulting services including structural engineering consulting, historic preservation, adaptive renovation, new construction, masonry services, timber tower services, and stabilization services. Their primary offerings are service-based rather than software products, focused on diagnostic consulting and appropriate design solutions for projects spanning historic preservation, adaptive re-use, renovation, restoration, and new construction across the commercial, institutional, civic, educational, religious, and residential markets in New England.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering Consulting
• Historic Preservation Services
• Adaptive Renovation Services
• New Construction Structural Engineering
• Masonry Services
• Timber Tower Services
• Stabilization Services

Named customers18 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ASTM International - Historic Mortars Task Group C12.03.03coreOthersJohn Wathne serves as chair of ASTM 'Historic Mortars' Task Group C12.03.03, demonstrating leadership in developing standards and best practices for historic mortar analysis and restoration.
• ICRI - Masonry Committee 410coreOthersJohn Wathne served as former co-chair of ICRI 'Masonry' Committee 410, contributing to industry standards development for masonry restoration and preservation.
• Structural Engineering Association of MassachusettscoreOthersEdward H. Moll II P.E. is past two-term president and founding officer of SEA-MASS and continues to serve as a director.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Robert Silman Associates: Structural engineering firm with deep historic preservation specialization, serving cultural, civic, and adaptive re-use clients. Silman is a direct competitor on landmark restoration and masonry/timber structural work in the Northeast market.
• Jablonski Building Conservation: Specialist preservation engineering and consulting firm focused on masonry, facades, and historic structure repair. Jablonski competes with Structures North on brownstone/masonry restoration and condition assessment projects for institutional and religious clients.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: Waltham, MA-headquartered structural engineering consulting firm with a strong preservation, envelope, and existing-structures practice. SGH competes with Structures North on Northeast-based adaptive re-use, masonry, and historic preservation projects for academic and institutional owners.
• Building Conservation Associates: NYC-based preservation consulting firm offering structural assessment, materials conservation, and historic structure evaluation. BCA overlaps with Structures North on investigative and diagnostic consulting for historic buildings and complements engineering work with conservation architecture services.
• Vertical Access: Specialty inspection firm providing rope-access and hands-on investigation of building exteriors, facades, and historic structures. Vertical Access overlaps with Structures North's diagnostic work on hard-to-access historic elements and is often a complementary or competing resource on the same RFPs.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates: North America's premier structural engineering and architectural forensics consulting firm with a renowned historic preservation practice. WJE directly competes with Structures North on landmark preservation, masonry restoration, and structural assessment for institutional and government clients.

Broad incumbents

• Thornton Tomasetti: Global engineering consultancy with deep preservation, forensics, and adaptive re-use capabilities across a much broader portfolio. Thornton Tomasetti competes with Structures North on large institutional and landmark restoration projects where its scale and multi-disciplinary offering win larger engagements.
• Arup: Global multidisciplinary engineering firm with active historic structures, conservation, and resilience practices. Arup competes with Structures North on large civic, cultural, and infrastructure heritage projects where integrated engineering, sustainability, and risk advisory capabilities are required.
• Buro Happold: International engineering consultancy with structural, heritage, and building performance expertise across cultural and civic portfolios. Buro Happold competes for the largest preservation and adaptive re-use engagements where multidisciplinary engineering and global delivery are key differentiators.

Emerging players

• Engineering Diagnostics Inc. Smaller specialty firm providing non-destructive testing, structural diagnostics, and condition assessment for existing and historic structures. Eng-DI competes for the investigative scope that complements or substitutes for Structures North's NDT-enabled preservation assessments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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