KNIGHT CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC

What KNIGHT CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC does

Knight Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a privately-held, founder-operated consulting engineering firm headquartered in Williston, Vermont, providing forensic, structural, and geotechnical engineering services since 1964. The firm operates with 1-10 employees (four named individuals: President Martin Hain P.E., Senior Vice President Eric Goddard P.E., Barb Evans P.E., and Christopher Evans as engineer's assistant) and serves three primary customer segments: insurance adjusters requiring forensic damage causation analysis, legal professionals seeking expert witness consultation, and property owners or commercial developers needing structural and geotechnical assessments.

The service portfolio centers on three core disciplines: forensic engineering (property damage investigations and causation opinions following catastrophes including flood, fire, hurricane, wind, hail, snow, and ice), structural engineering (design and analysis of new and existing systems), and geotechnical engineering (subsurface exploration, foundation design, slope failure remediation, liquefaction assessment, and limited in-house soil testing). Specialized service modules include HAAG Certified Wind Damage Inspection, expert witness services, real estate and residential investigations, and catastrophe response. Each licensed engineer carries over 30 years of individual experience, and the firm holds Professional Engineer licensure in five states (Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Florida).

Revenue is generated through project-based professional engineering fees, billed on a quote basis determined by scope, complexity, and geography, with no publicly disclosed pricing. The go-to-market is sales-led and referral-driven, with no formalized marketing beyond professional networking, certifications, and direct client relationships. The firm maintains no proprietary software, mobile app, API, or AI/ML capabilities, and operates without external private equity or venture capital backing. Geographic service coverage extends to Vermont, Florida, and New York for forensic work, with geotechnical and limited structural design concentrated in Vermont. Brattleboro Food Coop is cited as a representative commercial structural engineering project.

Name

KNIGHT CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC

Legal name

Knight Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Website

https://kcevt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Knight Consulting Engineers is a privately-held Vermont-based consulting engineering firm, founded in 1964, providing forensic, structural, and geotechnical engineering services to insurance adjusters, legal professionals, and property owners across Vermont, Florida, and New York.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Forensic Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Building Inspection Services (54135)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Geotechnical & Subsurface Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAB)

Keywords

• Forensic engineering services
• Structural engineering consulting
• Geotechnical engineering services
• Property damage investigation
• Expert witness consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Williston

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 engineering consulting fees for forensic investigations, geotechnical assessments, structural analysis, and expert witness services. Services are project-based with fees determined by scope and complexity of engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Knight Consulting Engineers provides forensic, structural, and geotechnical engineering consulting for residential and commercial property issues. The firm investigates property damage and structural failures, designs and analyzes structural systems, performs subsurface and soil-related engineering, and provides catastrophe response, real estate and residential investigations, expert witness consultation, and HAAG-certified wind-damage inspections.

Product overview

Knight Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a consulting engineering firm offering a unified portfolio of engineering services centered around structural and geotechnical disciplines. The core offerings include Forensic Engineering Services for homeowners and insurance adjusters, Structural Engineering (design and analysis of new and existing systems), and Geotechnical Engineering (soil-related engineering). These core services are complemented by specialized modules including Catastrophe Response (disaster-related property damage investigations), Real Estate and Residential Investigations, Expert Witness consultation for legal claims, and HAAG Certified Wind Damage Inspector services. The company serves clients in Vermont, Florida, and New York, with geotechnical and limited structural design services available in Vermont.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forensic Engineering Services Provides forensic engineering services for homeowners and insurance adjusters, including property damage investigations, causation analysis, and repair recommendations.
• Structural Engineering Provides design and analysis of new structural systems, upgrades and expansions of existing facilities, and analysis of existing and failed structural systems.
• Geotechnical Engineering Provides soil-related engineering services for earth-supported buildings and structures, including subsurface exploration, soil testing, liquefaction assessment, foundation design, retaining wall design, and slope-failure remediation.
• Catastrophe Response Investigates commercial and residential property damage after disasters such as flood, fire, hurricane, wind, hail, snow, and ice; assignments include investigation, documentation, causation opinions, and repair recommendations.
• Real Estate and Residential Investigations Provides property-owner consultations covering foundations, structures, structural home inspections, cracked and bowing foundations, water intrusion, structure settlement, sagging roofs, and damage caused by natural events.
• Expert Witness Services Provides expert witness consultation for legal claims involving safety assessments, code reviews of ramps, sidewalks, entries and stairs, slip-and-fall investigations, and structural-failure investigations.
• HAAG Certified Wind Damage Inspector Provides HAAG-certified wind-damage inspection for commercial and residential roofing, exterior envelope systems, siding systems, windows, doors, structural framing, and foundations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Distinguishes between new and pre-existing damage with expert causation opinions
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 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

Direct peers

• Rimkus Consulting Group: Rimkus is a forensic engineering and consulting firm providing property damage investigations, expert testimony, and structural/geotechnical failure analysis. Closely comparable in service mix to Knight, with a national footprint and similar insurance/legal client base.
• Donan Engineering: Donan is a forensic engineering firm focused on property insurance claim investigations, structural evaluations, and expert witness services. Direct competitor in residential and commercial forensic engineering with an insurance carrier-focused GTM motion similar to Knight’s.
• EFI Global: EFI Global is a forensic engineering, environmental, and fire investigation firm serving insurance, legal, and corporate clients. Comparable to Knight in property damage investigations and expert testimony, with broader national and multi-disciplinary reach.
• J.S. Held: J.S. Held is a large forensic consulting and engineering firm offering property damage investigations, expert witness services, and catastrophe response. It directly competes with Knight Consulting Engineers in insurance-driven forensic engineering work, but at a much larger national scale.
• Vertex Engineering Services: Vertex Engineering provides forensic engineering, fire investigation, and expert witness services to insurance and legal clients. Direct peer in the insurance-forensic engineering segment, with similar catastrophe response and causation analysis offerings.
• Nelson Forensics: Nelson Forensics is a forensic engineering and consulting firm specializing in property damage, structural failure, and causation analysis. Comparable to Knight in the breadth of forensic and structural engineering offerings and insurance/legal client overlap.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates: WJE is an engineering firm with deep expertise in structural failure investigation, building envelope assessments, and forensic engineering. Comparable to Knight in core forensic and structural engineering capabilities, though significantly larger and more research-oriented.

Broad incumbents

• Terracon Consultants: Terracon is a large national geotechnical, environmental, and materials engineering firm. Comparable to Knight in geotechnical investigations, foundation design, and subsurface exploration, but at much broader scale and scope.
• Exponent: Exponent is a large engineering and scientific consulting firm that performs failure analysis, structural forensics, and expert witness work. Broader incumbent with overlapping forensic engineering capabilities, but operating across many disciplines beyond Knight’s civil/structural/geotechnical focus.

Others

• Haag Engineering: Haag Engineering is a forensic engineering firm best known for the HAAG wind damage certification that Knight holds. Adjacent relationship: Knight uses HAAG’s certification program, while Haag provides forensic engineering and expert testimony services in adjacent spaces.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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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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