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. Wilmington is our office for the North Carolina coast.
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 the Cape Fear region can be designed, investigated, and repaired by people who already work together. The longer version is on our history page.
Engineering services in Wilmington
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 the Cape Fear region
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.
Salt air, wind-driven rain, hurricane exposure, and high groundwater are hard on buildings. Much of what this office does is enclosure, roofing, waterproofing, and corrosion work on structures that have been through a few seasons of it, plus structural and MEP design for new buildings meant to hold up to the same conditions.
The area we cover
Wilmington covers the Cape Fear region and the southeastern coast: Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Leland, Southport, Jacksonville, and the Brunswick and Pender County coast.
For work outside that area, one of our other offices is probably closer, and we will point you to it.
Talk to the Wilmington office
Call (910) 442-2000 to reach the Wilmington office directly. If you are not sure which service you need, describe the building and the problem and we will sort out the rest.
