Engineering Services

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 ICE provides engineering inspections for insurance property claims, and issues a report detailing cause, extent of damage, and suggested repairs. Property claims have a variety of causal factors, and ICE specializes in identifying and evaluating damage resulting from wind, fire, water, hail, tree impact and vehicular collision.  

Within hours of an event ICE can be on site to provide engineering support to catastrophe response team adjusters. Whether the catastrophe is the result of tornados, hurricanes, flooding or earthquake, ICE provides the expertise to make the causal determination and specify the extent of repairs required. 

ICE is experienced handling the high volume claims resulting from a catastrophe, and is able to process them in an efficient manner so that the adjuster can have the technical support needed to quickly make coverage determinations. When necessary, ICE provides recommendations to prevent further damage to repairable structures. 

The ability to differentiate between long-term pre-existing issues and recent damage is important.  ICE has performed hundreds of mold inspections in the gulf coast region, and can separate pre-existing mold problems from new mold caused by a recent event, and can make recommendations to prevent a simple water intrusion claim from ballooning into a major mold issue. 

ICE can be an integral part of your response team. Call us today!

 ICE provides expert witness services for legal actions. Our principal engineer has experience supporting both plaintiff suits and defense cases, and knows how to explain complex engineering principles in simple language so that it is easy for the judge and jury to understand. Most of the legal proceedings in which we have been retained have been ruled in favor of our clients based on the strength of our testimony or have settled out of court in favor of our clients based on our determinations. Both trial and deposition testimony has been given.

With 10 years experience in the building industry we can easily identify design and construction defects for subrogation purposes. Expertise encompasses land development, storm water management, watershed analysis & flooding, materials & component defects, construction processes, standard engineering & construction practices, acceptable levels of workmanship, and familiarity with historic & current building code requirements.

If you are uncertain of the merits of your case, call us for a free consultation to discuss the pertinent circumstances and possible strategies for legal resolution of the conflict.