Engineering Services

HGS Engineering provides general engineering support to the federal government, state and local agencies, and private sector clients nationwide.

• Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Innovative Engineering

Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
Using a multi-disciplinary engineering team approach, HGS engineers designed base camps for the Department of State in Afghanistan and for the Defense Department in Niger. Teams included architects and civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, fire protection, and environmental engineers. Engineering teams developed design drawings, cost estimates, scopes of work, and construction schedules to support the construction of the base camps. The camps meet all new AT/FP standards. HGS provided construction management support, site civil support, and quality control of construction during the construction phase. HGS will provide engineers to support the construction of a new airfield at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Civil Engineering
HGS engineers designed roads for the Alabama Department of Transportation and landfills for the former Ft. McClellan in Alabama. HGS provided the staff engineer at the Department of Homeland Security Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). After 9/11 and as the mission and facility grew, HGS supported the growth of the CDP by developing plans, specifications, and overseeing construction of parking lots, student training facilities, and dormitories.

Structural Engineering
HGS Engineering has a long and very successful history of supporting the US military's Chemical Demilitarization Program. HGS engineers assisted in the failure analysis of a major blast wall that experienced catastrophic failure at the Anniston, Alabama Chemical Agent Demilitarization facility and assessed repair strategies. HGS certified the structural integrity of the repaired wall. HGS structural engineers have assessed the structural integrity and certified piping and tanks having a lethal service application at the Anniston facility and at the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Neutralization facility. In the private sector, HGS engineers developed programs and produced standard designs for tanks, compressors, and vaporizers for North American installation for one of the world's largest industrial gas manufacturers.

Mechanical Engineering
For a leading defense contractor, HGS mechanical engineers conducted a complex finite element analysis for over 1,800 secondary market aircraft parts. Engineers analyzed testing protocols to determine if pressures applied to rebuilt parts exceeded rupture thresholds and determined blast pattern, size of projectiles, and energy in a failure mode. HGS conducted a probabilistic risk analysis to determine the impact to employees of a catastrophic failure and explosion of parts being tested. HGS mechanical engineers recommended alterations to the testing protocols, relocation of employees, and shielding to protect employees engaged in part pressurization.

Innovative Engineering
HGS currently holds a patent on a designed concrete block with multiple applications in soil retention, bridge and abutment protection, and coastal erosion mitigation. The company has a patent on a passive solar structural member and has filed for an Environmental Protection Agency small business innovative technology grant to finalize design and commercialize the product.