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Eric Guenther Structural Engineer, Forefront Structural Engineers, Inc. Chicago, IL
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Industry
Engineer
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Services offered
Engineer - Structural, timber logistics
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Has Experience with these building types:
Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater, etc.), Business (Office), Civic (Recreational), Educational, Factory/Industrial (warehouse, storage, parking, etc.), Hotel/Motel, Institutional, Mercantile (Retail), Mixed-Use, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos, etc.), Student Housing, Custom Innovative Residential
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Has Experience with these material types:
Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Timber-Frame / Post and Beam, Heavy Timber Decking, Hybrid (wood with steel or concrete), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL), Wood-Concrete Composite Systems, Light-Frame, I-joists, Lumber, Open-web trusses, Wood structural panels
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Has experience with these construction types:
I-A, I-B, II-A, II-B, III-A, III-B, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C, IV-HT, V-A, V-B
Eric brings 10+ years of creative and technical expression to the team. He is always up for a new challenge, whether that involves designing a new transfer system to eliminate existing building columns from a historic building or optimizing a lateral system for a new modern high-rise. He leads our digital and parametric design workflow between Rhino+Grasshopper, structural analysis modeling, and REVIT. Eric helps us visually communicate our structural design concepts to architects, contractors and developers alike while effectively blending his architectural understanding and background into his passion for excellence in structural engineering.
