Structural Engineer in St. Petersburg: PE-Sealed Plans From a Firm Headquartered Here
HB Design and Engineering is headquartered in St. Petersburg, so your structural set is designed and sealed by a Florida PE who knows this peninsula's soil, wind, and flood rules firsthand and stays your engineer of record through ePlan review. Send us your drawings, get back a permit-ready set.
What you get
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1. PE-sealed structural plans with a Florida engineer of record who answers the city directly
2. ASCE 7-22 wind load calculations and a documented roof-to-foundation load path
3. Foundations sized to St. Pete's sandy soil, high water table, and AE/VE flood elevations
4. Comment responses and resubmittals included, no surprise revision bills
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Why St. Pete structure is its own problem
St. Petersburg sits on a peninsula, so flood and coastal exposure reach well past the shoreline. Sandy bearing soils, a high water table, and roughly 150 mph design winds push on a structure at once, and much of the buildable land falls inside FEMA AE and VE flood zones. The city also enforces a stricter substantial-improvement and flood standard than the federal baseline, so foundation and elevation details have to coordinate with ASCE 24. We are headquartered here and submit to the City of St. Petersburg Construction Services and Permitting Division constantly, so we document wind, load path, and foundations the way these reviewers read them. Because our architecture, structural, and MEP sit under one roof, your structural set stays coordinated with the rest of the drawings.
Who we work with
Developers
general
contractors
builders across Pinellas County
And infill in the historic districts.
How it works
1.
Send us your architectural drawings or scope plus the site survey.
2.
We run the wind analysis, size the framing and foundation, and detail the load path.
3.
You get a PE-sealed set formatted for the city's ePlan portal.
4.
If comments come back, the engineer of record answers and resubmits, included.
Frequently asked questions
Is St. Petersburg in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone?
No. The HVHZ covers Miami-Dade and Broward. Pinellas County is a wind-borne debris region with design winds around 150 mph under ASCE 7-22, rigorous but different from Miami-Dade, so your set is detailed for the zone you are actually in
How do you handle flood-zone foundations here?
Much of the peninsula sits in AE or VE flood zones. We confirm the flood zone and base flood elevation first, then size the foundation to match, thickened slabs where the soil allows, deep or elevated systems where it does not, documented for both the city and FEMA.
St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, including Historic Old Northeast, Historic Kenwood, Snell Isle, Shore Acres, Crescent Lake, the EDGE District, and downtown.
Get a St. Petersburg structural engineer who reads the same code your reviewer does. Call (727) 320-2361 and put a Florida PE on your project.