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Licensed structural engineers · Keller, Texas

Straight structural answers for DFW homeowners.

Texas-licensed professional engineers serving the Dallas metroplex. We measure what's actually happening in your house, tell you in plain English, and draw what has to be built — nothing you don't need.

Calls returned within one business day · Texas PE #98421 · TBPE Firm Reg. F-24118
Project photo — engineered beam at a removed kitchen wall, Southlake
Texas PE #####
Licensed professional engineer
F-#####
TBPE firm registration
12 years
Serving the metroplex
Serving Dallas TX
and surrounding cities
01 / What we do

Four services. Each one answers a different question.

Most people arrive with a symptom rather than a service in mind. Start with whichever line sounds like your house.
01

Foundation Inspections & Repair Plans

Cracks, sticking doors, a gap over the garage door — find out what's actually moving before anyone sells you piers.
What's Involved ->
02

Load-Bearing Wall Removal

You want the kitchen opened up. We size the beam and draw it so your contractor can bid it and your city will permit it.
What's Involved ->
03

Structural Design Plans

Foundation, framing, and bracing plans for additions and new builds — drawn the way DFW permit desks want them.
What's Involved ->
04

Framing Assessments

Sagging floors, a dipping roof line, or a new build about to be closed up — an engineer looks before the drywall goes on.
What's Involved ->
02 / Do I need one?

When do I need a structural engineer?

If you recognise your house in one of these, a phone call costs nothing and usually saves a great deal.

Cracks are showing up

Stair-step brick cracks, sheetrock cracking from a door corner, a gap over the garage door.

I want to open up a wall

Somebody said load-bearing. You need a beam size and a plan that will permit.

I'm buying a house with concerns

The inspection report says "recommend evaluation by a structural engineer." That's us, usually inside 48 hours.

I'm planning an addition

New square footage needs a foundation, framing, and bracing design the city will accept.
03 / Process

Three steps, one permit-ready set

No mystery between the site walk and the seal. You know what happens next at every point.
STEP 01

We walk the house with you

An engineer — not a technician — looks at what you're worried about, plus the things you haven't noticed yet. You get a verbal read before we leave.
45–90 min on site
STEP 02

We measure and run the numbers

Floor elevations, span tables, load paths, soil behaviour. Findings get compared against published criteria, not against a hunch.
Elevation survey · load calculations
STEP 03

You get something you can build from

A sealed report or plan set, formatted the way DFW cities want it. Your contractor can bid from it and the permit desk can accept it.
3–5 business days
04 / Why this firm

Architectural and structural, under one seal.

Most homeowners hire a designer to draw the addition, then an engineer to stamp the structure, and pay for the gap between them — the beam that doesn't fit the ceiling height, the header that isn't on the elevation, the resubmittal.

We produce both sets in-house. The drawings agree with each other before they reach the permit desk, and one engineer is accountable for all of it. Add to that a founder who framed houses before he engineered them, and you get solutions that are buildable rather than merely correct.
We walk the house with you
G. Lamb Engineering performs no construction work and takes no referral fees. The party measuring your house has no financial interest in the answer being expensive.
Fig. 1 — post-tension slab layout, 640 sq ft addition, Keller
Fig. 1 — post-tension slab layout, 640 sq ft addition, Keller
Jobsite photo — pre-drywall framing review
Fig. 2 — pre-drywall walkthrough, new construction, Justin
05 / Clients

What people say after the report lands

He told us the slab was fine and we didn't need the $18,000 of piers the repair company quoted. Then he wrote it down and sealed it so the buyer's agent had to accept it.
Marissa T.
Colleyville · pre-purchase evaluation
I've bid a lot of beam jobs. This is the first plan set I didn't have to call about. Sizes, connections, temporary shoring — all of it was on the sheet.
Ruben A.
General contractor · Fort Worth
Keller took the plans first submittal, no comments. For an addition on a 1978 slab, that has never happened to me before.
Dana W.
Keller · 640 sq ft addition
06 / Service area

Where we work

Based in Dallas, on site across the metroplex. If your city isn't listed, call and ask — it probably still is.
Dallas
Roanoke
Arlington
Coppell
Frisco
Haslet
Southlake
Trophy Club
Bedford
Irving
Keller
Las Colinas
Colleyville
North Richland Hills
Euless
Grand Prairie
Preston Hollow
Farmers Branch
Grapevine
Fort Worth
Flower Mound
Plano
Addison
Richardson
07 / Next step

Tell us what your house is doing.

Send photos with the form and we'll tell you whether you actually need an engineer. Every request gets a call back within one business day.
325 North St. Paul Street Ste 3100, Dallas, TX 75201

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    Not sure which service you need?

    Call and describe it. If we can answer in five minutes on the phone, we will — and we'll tell you if you don't need us.
    Licensed residential structural engineering for the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Straight answers, buildable solutions, permit-ready drawings.
    service area

    Dallas

    Carrollton

    Addison

    Farmers Branch

    Richardson

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    325 North St. Paul Street Ste 3100, Dallas, TX 75201 · (817) 217-4253