Piotr L. Sawinski

• Design of new commercial, residential, and industrial structures.
• Inspections and engineering assessments.
• Renovations, additions, and extensions.
• Solutions for non-typical engineering problems.
• Support of excavation (SOE) for deep excavations.

• Designed structural systems and coordinated structural aspects of projects with other disciplines.
• Served as Engineer of Record (EOR) for the company’s structural projects.
• Led and oversaw the structural department.

• Designed agricultural facilities in Canada and the United States, including dry fertilizer warehouses, grain bins, and chemical warehouses.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams and managed competing project priorities to meet schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

Additional remote service: September 2018 – Present.

• Served as designer and lead structural engineer on more than 150 residential, retail, and commercial projects, including buildings up to 16 stories.
• Took responsibility for structural design involving new construction, demolition, excavations, renovations, and deep foundations.
• Designed foundations near existing subway structures, including work approximately five feet from a subway tunnel.
• Managed projects through conceptual design, interdisciplinary coordination, structural design, drafting, shop-drawing review, and site visits.
• Maintained direct contact with owners, architects, and MEP engineers to address project requirements.
• Led and mentored junior structural engineers.

• Coordinated design specialists as a general contractor and owner’s representative on a 60,000-square-foot residential project.

• Compared finite element method (FEM) algorithms and evaluated the potential integration of a new algorithm into existing software.

• Assisted surveyors with office work and CAD preparation and completion of survey maps.

Taught courses in:

• Strength of Materials.
• Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity.
• Computer Methods in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity.

• Designed and drafted steel and concrete structures, including horizontally corrugated steel grain silos, masts, retaining walls, residential buildings, industrial facilities, and stadium roofs.