Structural Engineering Services LLC

What Structural Engineering Services LLC does

Structural Engineering Services LLC (SES) is a privately held, family-owned structural engineering firm headquartered at 15610 Lima Road, Huntertown, Indiana, founded in 1980 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The firm delivers licensed professional structural engineering design services across residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, healthcare, education, and government projects, with three registered Professional Engineers on the named team holding licensure in Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, Maryland, Michigan, and Texas—an unusually broad multi-state credential footprint for a firm of this size that enables project delivery across the Midwest and beyond. Technical execution relies on a conventional industry software stack: Digital Canal for structural design and analysis, AutoDesk Revit for Building Information Modeling (BIM), and AutoCAD for 2D drafting, applied across design disciplines covering wood, light-gauge steel framing, structural steel, load-bearing masonry, poured-in-place concrete, and shallow and deep foundation systems.

The firm's go-to-market is sales-led and direct: prospective clients initiate engagement via phone, and the firm carries projects from initial consultation through design into construction-phase engineering support, billing on a project-by-project professional services basis with no productized or SaaS offering disclosed. The customer base is heterogeneous and includes large enterprise and public-sector clients—Memorial Coliseum (a flagship $16 million, 62,000-square-foot Conference Center Addition), Embassy Theatre, Volvo, Vera Bradley, Zimmer, Biomet, Parkview Birth Center and Surgery Wing, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, MINI, Meijer Dairy, Valbruna Slater Stainless, and multiple K-12 schools—indicating capability across manufacturing, healthcare, education, entertainment, government, and retail verticals. Operationally, the firm is intentionally lean with approximately 7 total employees, of which 4 are named (Kenneth E. Hess, P.E. as President/Senior Engineer; John D. Short, P.E. and Ethan P. Hess, P.E. as Project Engineers; Natalie Hess as Office Manager), reinforcing a boutique, relationship-driven delivery model rather than a scaled engineering services platform.

Name

Structural Engineering Services LLC

Legal name

Structural Engineering Services LLC

Website

https://structuralengr.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Structural Engineering Services LLC is a privately owned, family-led structural engineering firm in Huntertown, Indiana, providing licensed structural design for residential, commercial, industrial, educational, healthcare, and government projects across six U.S. states since 1980.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Structural engineering design
• Residential structural engineering
• Commercial building engineering
• Industrial structural design
• Foundation engineering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Huntertown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Structural Engineering Consulting Services: Professional engineering services billed on a project basis. Services span from initial design consultation through construction phase engineering support. Revenue derived from engineering fees for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Structural Engineering Services LLC provides professional structural engineering design services for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional building projects. The firm delivers full-service engineering solutions covering wood, light gage steel framing, structural steel, load-bearing masonry, poured-in-place concrete, and shallow and deep foundation design, from initial consultation through design and into construction oversight. The firm leverages Digital Canal design software, AutoDesk Revit BIM, and AutoCAD 2D drafting to produce structural design deliverables for clients across multiple U.S. states.

Product overview

Structural Engineering Services LLC (SES) is a structural engineering firm offering professional engineering services rather than a software product company. The core offering is comprehensive structural engineering services covering residential, commercial building, and industrial structural design. The company provides end-to-end engineering solutions from initial consultation through design and into construction oversight.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering Design Services
• Residential Structural Engineering
• Commercial Building Structural Engineering
• Industrial Structural Engineering
• Educational Facility Structural Engineering
• Healthcare Facility Structural Engineering
• Government Facility Structural Engineering
• Church and Religious Facility Structural Engineering

Named customers17 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• Schaefer: Cincinnati-based structural engineering firm with expertise in commercial, healthcare, education, and adaptive reuse projects. Comparable multi-material structural design capabilities and similar Midwestern footprint.
• Lynch & Associates Engineering: Indianapolis-area structural engineering consulting firm serving commercial, healthcare, and institutional clients in Indiana. Similar size and regional market position; comparable client verticals and direct competition on Midwest projects.
• CTL Engineering: Midwest-based engineering and testing firm with structural engineering services serving Ohio, Indiana, and adjacent states. Comparable in scale and regional Midwestern project focus; direct overlap in commercial, industrial, and institutional work.

Direct peers

• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH): Engineering consultancy specializing in structural, building envelope, and forensic engineering. Comparable in delivering structural design for buildings and infrastructure with a focus on quality and technical depth across wood, steel, concrete, and masonry.
• American Structurepoint: Indianapolis-headquartered multi-discipline engineering firm providing structural, civil, and architectural services across the Midwest. Direct regional peer given shared Indiana base and overlapping building/transportation project mix.
• Walter P Moore: National structural engineering consulting firm offering services across building types including commercial, healthcare, education, and sports venues. Directly comparable in core service offering and multi-material structural expertise, though significantly larger in scale.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE): Engineering firm focused on structural engineering, materials science, and building diagnostics. Highly comparable technical scope (structural design, investigation, and rehabilitation) and project-based professional services model.
• Jensen Hughes: Engineering firm with strong structural and fire protection engineering practices serving commercial, industrial, and institutional clients. Overlapping verticals (healthcare, education, government) and similar project-based consulting model.

Broad incumbents

• Burns & McDonnell: Large multi-discipline engineering firm with structural capabilities serving industrial, commercial, and government clients nationally. Overlapping project types but at a significantly larger scale and broader service portfolio.
• Kimley-Horn: National engineering consultancy with structural and civil capabilities across commercial, residential, education, and government sectors. Comparable multi-vertical client base, though operating at substantially greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/structural-engineering-services-llc

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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