SKA Consulting Engineers has been engineering buildings in the Southeast since 1957, when John V. Sutton opened a one-man structural practice in Greensboro, North Carolina. The firm has grown to seven offices across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Asheville is our office for the mountains.
Every SKA office works the same way. Structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers are in the same firm as our building enclosure, roofing, testing, and forensic investigation teams, so a project in Western North Carolina can be designed, investigated, and repaired by people who already work together. The longer version is on our history page.
Engineering services in Asheville
Owners, architects, and contractors call this office for one of two reasons. Either a building is going up or being renovated and it needs structural and MEP design, or a building is already standing and it leaks, cracks, or does not perform the way it should, and someone needs to find out why.
For new construction and renovation we provide structural engineering, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection design, commissioning, and peer review. For existing buildings we handle building enclosure and roofing assessments, waterproofing and leak investigation, concrete and corrosion evaluation, structural repair, and forensic investigation, backed by our own testing division.
Who we work with in Western North Carolina
Much of our work is for hospitals and health systems, colleges and universities, K-12 schools, cities and counties, parking deck owners, and multi-family developers. We also engineer churches, historic buildings, industrial plants, airports, and athletic and aquatic facilities. Across the firm that adds up to more than 1,000 parking structures and more than 1,000 municipal projects. You can browse the markets we serve or the project portfolio.
Mountain buildings take a beating. Steep sites, heavy rain, freeze and thaw cycles, and an older building stock mean a good share of this office's work is roofing, enclosure, and structural repair, along with new design for the campuses, hospitals, and municipalities that anchor the region.
The area we cover
Asheville covers Western North Carolina: Asheville, Hendersonville, Waynesville, Boone, Morganton, and the mountain counties between them.
For work outside that area, one of our other offices is probably closer, and we will point you to it.
Talk to the Asheville office
Call (828) 274-4440 to reach the Asheville office directly. If you are not sure which service you need, describe the building and the problem and we will sort out the rest.
