At our core, we’re engineers who think like designers and builders. We know the importance of collaborating closely with every person involved in a design and construction project. Through this collaboration with architects, owners, and builders, we’re able to fulfill our passion of creating structures that leave a lasting impression.
We’re about more than compliance. We’re about making design visions buildable and durable.
What we do
Projects meant to be experienced, not just occupied.
We utilize our deep multi-material structural engineering experience to create projects that are meant to be experienced, not just occupied. A natural part of this is taking on challenging projects in which the structural form is part of the space’s experience — endeavors whose stakeholders have a deeper emotional connection with what their project is and what it can be.
Private owners, architects, contractors, businesses, and government agencies across the Mid-Atlantic region trust us to provide exceptional consultation on new, adaptive reuse, and historical restoration projects.
The structural bones of a building are usually treated as a problem to be fixed, but we take a different approach. Whenever possible, we treat them as an additive part of the Project’s value.
We serve as the responsible Engineer of Record across our project types — new construction, adaptive reuse, and historic restoration — carrying design responsibility, code compliance, and sealed construction documents from concept through closeout.
- Peer review of structural engineering drawings and systems
- Design of structural systems
- Performance-Based Design methods
- Wind and seismic
- Conventional structural system design
- New and historic facade & envelope design
- Combining forces and forms to create integrated architectural-structural forms
- Condition assessments
- Historic and existing buildings
- In-situ timber strength grading
- Wood species identification
- Wood condition assessment
- Timber framing
- Mass timber
- Post and beam
- Connection design
- Masonry
- Hybrid systems
- Stairs
- Structural fire design
- Structural acoustic detailing
- Durability detailing
- Rigging & shoring
- Stabilization
- Structural monitoring
Why Cambium?
The difference is in how we work.
The Principal provides his direct technical and creative touch on every project, from first drawing to final inspection.
We bridge academic timber science with hands-on construction craft. Few firms in the Mid-Atlantic do both.
We pursue solutions for unconventional problems others are unsure how to solve. Intricate geometries. Hybrid systems. 200-year-old frames.
We protect design intent, represent and empower your vision, and create drawings specifically for the people doing the work.