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Crane Engineering, one of the nation’s leading forensic engineering companies announced the formation of a subsidiary company in October of 2010 dedicated to the architectural and engineering issues of building science. Crane Engineering Building Science provides legal firms, insurance companies, real estate professionals and building owners with the diagnostic and analytical capabilities required to define, verify, prevent and resolve large loss incidents. Crane’s new division concentrates the resources needed to address built environment failures and claims.

“We’re focused on the four key areas of large loss cases,” says Stefan D. Helgeson, AIA, ASLA, CSI, President, Principal Architect and Landscape Architect of the new company, “design, materials, codes and contracts. Other than damages from violent acts of nature, a large loss involving a building is very similar to a product failure. Our job is to provide the property owners, attorneys and insurance companies with the most definitive identification of cause. Basically, we uncover what really went wrong.”