Beicker Engineering

What Beicker Engineering does

Beicker Engineering, Inc. is a privately held structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm provides structural design and consulting services for commercial, industrial, residential, and governmental buildings, with documented project experience ranging from one-story retail structures to 18-story high-rise office towers. Its core technical competencies span tilt-up concrete walls, structural steel framing, masonry, metal building systems, and composite joist construction, with particular concentration in tilt-up warehouse and distribution center design across the San Antonio and Laredo markets.

The firm's service offering covers the full structural engineering lifecycle — conceptual structural system design, detailed construction documents, and construction administration to verify contractor implementation. Its methodology emphasizes cost-effective structural systems, clear construction documentation, and open communication with architects, contractors, and fabricators during construction. Beicker Engineering operates as a sales-led, project-based professional services firm, delivering engagements directly to architects and construction industry clients on a per-project basis. There is no software product, digital platform, or API; revenue derives entirely from professional service fees tied to individual project scopes.

The customer base is diversified across multiple verticals — including telecommunications (Northern Telecom), retail (Walmart, Star Furniture, QVC), logistics (Federal Express), hospitality (Hilton, Holiday Inn Express), banking (Frost Bank, First Valley Bank), government (San Antonio River Authority, North East ISD), healthcare, and religious institutions. The firm has completed international work in Mexico and maintains multi-state Professional Engineer licensure (Texas, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Maryland), though its operational footprint remains concentrated in Texas. Beicker Engineering is founder-owned, with Davy L. Beicker, PE serving as Vice-President; no external institutional investors, funding events, or ownership changes have been disclosed.

Name

Beicker Engineering

Legal name

Beicker Engineering, Inc.

Website

https://beicker.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Beicker Engineering, Inc. is a privately held structural engineering consulting firm founded in 1982 in San Antonio, Texas, providing structural design services for commercial, industrial, governmental, and residential buildings across Texas, with a specialty in tilt-up concrete warehouse construction.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Structural engineering
• Building design
• Tilt-up concrete
• Construction consulting
• Commercial construction

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Structural Engineering Consulting Services: Professional engineering consulting services provided to architectural and construction industry clients for structural design and consulting on building projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Beicker Engineering provides structural engineering design and consulting services for commercial, industrial, residential, and governmental buildings, including office buildings, hotels, educational facilities, retail centers, parking structures, religious complexes, healthcare facilities, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities. The firm produces construction documents and provides construction administration to verify contractor implementation, with particular specialization in tilt-up concrete, structural steel, masonry, and metal building systems.

Product overview

Beicker Engineering is a structural engineering consulting firm offering a comprehensive suite of engineering services rather than a software product portfolio. The company provides structural design and consulting services for various building types including offices, hotels, schools, warehouses, retail centers, churches, banks, libraries, and specialized facilities. All offerings are centered around their core structural engineering consulting practice, with services differentiated by building type and construction methodology (tilt-up concrete, structural steel, masonry, etc.). There is no software product, platform, or digital product offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Structural Engineering Consulting Services Comprehensive structural engineering design and consulting for commercial, industrial, residential, and governmental buildings using concrete, structural steel, tilt-up concrete walls, masonry, metal building, and composite framing systems. Deliverables include structural design, construction documents, and construction administration services to verify contractor implementation. Clients include architects, general contractors, developers, building owners, school districts, and government agencies in Texas and select international projects.

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor, moderate and core.

• Coalition of American Structural Engineers (CASE)minorOthersProfessional affiliation with CASE, which is associated with ACEC (American Consulting Engineers Council). Corporate membership indicates industry leadership and networking.
• Structural Engineer's Risk Management Council (SERMC)minorOthersProfessional affiliation related to risk management in structural engineering practice.
• Association of General Contractors (AGC)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfessional membership indicating collaboration with general contractors in the construction industry. Davy Beicker received 1998 Engineer of the Year from the San Antonio Chapter AGC.
• Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfessional membership in ABC, a construction industry trade association.
• Tilt-up Concrete Association (TCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey professional association for tilt-up concrete construction - a core specialty of Beicker Engineering. The firm is noted as having designed the majority of recent tilt-up warehouse construction in San Antonio and Laredo.
• Structural Engineers Association of Texas (SEAoT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary professional association for structural engineers in Texas. Founder Davy Beicker is an active member.
• National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA)minorOthersNational professional organization for structural engineers. Founder Davy Beicker is an active member.
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)minorOthersProfessional membership. Founder Davy Beicker is an active member.
• American Concrete Institute (ACI)minorOthersProfessional membership in ACI. Founder Davy Beicker is active in Western Council of ACI.
• National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)minorOthersProfessional membership. Founder Davy Beicker received 1990 Young Engineer of the Year from TSPE (Texas Society of Professional Engineers).

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup: Global engineering, design, and consulting firm with major structural engineering practice serving buildings, infrastructure, and industrial clients. Overlap is structural engineering consulting for buildings; broader scope and far larger scale than Beicker.
• Thornton Tomasetti: Global structural engineering and applied science consultancy serving commercial, cultural, and infrastructure clients. Comparable structural design services but with vastly broader geographic reach and multidisciplinary practice.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure and engineering consultancy with a structural engineering practice serving commercial, institutional, and government building clients. Overlapping capability on building structural design, but vastly larger and multidisciplinary.
• WSP Buildings Practice: Global professional services firm with structural engineering capabilities serving commercial, healthcare, education, and government clients. Broad incumbent offering overlapping structural design services as part of a much wider portfolio.

Direct peers

• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: Specialty structural engineering consulting firm focused on building structures, enclosures, and forensics. Closely comparable specialty-consulting model serving architects and developers on commercial, educational, and institutional buildings.
• Stanley D. Lindsey & Associates: Structural engineering consulting firm specializing in commercial, healthcare, hospitality, and institutional buildings. Closely comparable services to architects and developers on building projects.
• Walter P Moore: Structural engineering consulting firm serving commercial, healthcare, education, and sports clients. Directly comparable in core service offering (structural design and consulting for buildings), though larger and nationally distributed.
• Datum Engineers: Structural engineering consulting firm providing design services for commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings. Closely comparable mid-sized structural consultancy business model.
• LBYD Engineers: Structural engineering consulting firm with offices across the southern US providing design services for commercial, industrial, educational, and institutional buildings. Comparable regional structural consultancy serving architects and contractors.
• Martin/Martin Inc. Structural and building enclosure engineering consultancy serving architects, owners, and contractors. Comparable engineering-consulting model across commercial, educational, healthcare, and industrial sectors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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