Melanie S. Smith, P.E., is a forensic engineer specializing in structural analysis, design, and forensic investigations of commercial, residential, institutional and industrial structures. She has over 35 years of experience in structural engineering and design of buildings and structures, including office buildings, museums, schools, correctional facilities, libraries, auditoriums, sport complexes, parking garages, airplane hangars, cranes and equipment supports, and other structures, in the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. She has over 2 years specializing in forensic structural engineering. Her projects in forensic engineering include commercial, institutional and residential buildings and aquatic structures which have experienced damage from weather, age and geotechnical causes. She is knowledgeable the International Building Code and the Florida Building Code and familiar with local jurisdictional codes in the Georgia and Florida region.

Areas of Expertise
•         Structural Engineering Design and Analysis
•         Forensic Structural Engineering Analysis and Structural Inspection
•         Roofing Inspection of all Types of Residential and Commercial Roofing
•         Geotechnical Assessment of Structural Foundation Failures

Bachelor of Civil Engineering with Honor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, 1983
Master of Civil Engineering, specializing in structures, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994

Professional Engineer, State of Georgia, License # PE017750
Professional Structural Engineer, State of Georgia #SE000820
Professional Engineer, State of Florida, License #75703
Professional Engineer, State of South Carolina, License #34306
Professional Engineer, State of Alabama, License #36574
Professional Engineer, State of Louisiana, License # PE0037767
Professional Engineer, State of West Virginia, License # 020092
Professional Engineer, State of Texas, License # 135809
Professional Engineer, State of North Carolina # 049469