About the practice
Terdax Engineering designs new reinforced-concrete buildings and evaluates the ones already standing, across Miami-Dade and Broward — with the reasoning behind every conclusion written down and one Florida Professional Engineer responsible for all of it.
- Licensure
- Florida Professional Engineer
- Focus
- Concrete · Existing buildings · BIM
- Region
- South Florida
Meet the engineer
- Licensure
- Professional Engineer, Florida
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Region
- Miami-Dade & Broward
Principal Engineer · Florida Professional Engineer
One engineer is responsible for the whole project.
Terdax Engineering is a structural practice registered to offer engineering services in Florida. One licensed Professional Engineer leads every engagement from the first conversation with an owner, board or architect through to the sealed drawing set or the submitted report — the same engineer throughout, not a relay of account managers.
The practice covers both halves of structural work in South Florida: the design of new reinforced-concrete buildings, and the evaluation, recertification and repair of buildings already standing. Both are done with the same discipline — the reasoning behind every conclusion is written down, and nothing leaves the office that has not been checked line by line.
We would rather explain a structural decision in plain language than hide it behind a code reference. A board should be able to read a findings report and know what to do next; a contractor should be able to build from the drawing without calling; and a reviewer should be able to follow the calculation from load to detail.
— Terdax Engineering
What that means for you
- Direct communicationYou talk to the engineer who is doing the work — not to an account manager relaying questions.
- A scope you can readEvery proposal states what is included, what is not, what you receive and what it costs, before anything starts.
- One engineer’s judgmentWhoever inspects the building or sets the design basis is the same engineer who signs the report and answers the reviewer.
Approach
Reviewed line by line, before it leaves.
Two kinds of work run through this practice, and they inform each other. Designing new structures teaches you what fails in the field; inspecting buildings that have been standing for decades teaches you what to detail differently the next time.
Our method is model-first. Structure is modeled, coordinated and documented as one connected source of truth, checked against the design basis, so that what goes to permit is complete and coordinated.
On existing buildings the same discipline applies in reverse: the building is field-verified before it is analyzed, and nothing is concluded from a drawing that has not been confirmed on site.
Principles
How we hold the line.
- RigorEvery member is analyzed and checked against the governing code before it reaches a drawing.
- ConstructabilityDetails that respect the field — buildable, sequenceable and clear to the contractor.
- CoordinationStructure resolved against architecture and services early, so conflicts are caught in the model rather than on site.
- Documented reasoningAssumptions, loads and code provisions are written down, so any reviewer can follow the argument.
- LongevityDesigned for durability and service life in a coastal environment, not just for the first day of occupancy.
Deliverables are signed and sealed by a Florida-licensed Professional Engineer, where the scope of work requires it.
Next step
A county notice in your hand, a building that worries you or a new project — describe it and attach what you have. A phone photo of the letter is enough. You hear back from the engineer, with questions or with a written proposal.