
Experts in All Things Structural
At Kent Crane, our structural experts are licensed Professional Engineers and Structural Engineers. Our team specialize in providing structural engineering services that ensure your cranes and heavy equipment operate at peak efficiency. We recognize the critical role these machines play in your operations. Our services are trusted by industries spanning construction, manufacturing, logistics, and more. Whether you’re managing a fleet of cranes or a single critical piece of equipment, we deliver solutions tailored to your needs. Our specialized structural engineering services are designed to maximize reliability, safety, and efficiency, helping you tackle even the most demanding challenges with confidence.
We understand that every project is unique. Whether it’s a new construction, retrofitting an existing structure or piece of equipment, or investigating a structural failure, our tailored approach ensures optimal outcomes for your specific needs. We exist to answer our clients most important questions and solve their most important problems.
Why Kent Crane?
Our core belief is “Truth brings light”, therefore we rigorously pursue the truth with our inspection and engineering expertise. Our team shares this belief and is committed providing our client with truthful, objective, data driven, and practical solutions. We are a multidisciplinary team of seasoned structural, mechanical, materials, corrosion, and welding engineers and inspectors. We pride ourselves on effective communication, our science-based approach, practical solutions, and commitment to working closely with our clients, ensuring they are fully satisfied with our work.
Types of Structures
- Cranes and Heavy Equipment
- Material Handling Equipment
- Maritime Structures
- Agricultural Structures
- Communication and Utilities
- Dams
About Us
Our team is our advantage. Our support team of expert mechanical, structural, materials, metallurgical, corrosion, welding engineers and inspectors sets us apart. We pride ourselves on effective communication, and we work closely with our clients every step of the way to ensure they are fully satisfied with the answers and solutions we provide.
Our Capabilities
- Construction support services
- Life expectancy assessment and reserve study support
- Structural health monitoring
- Investigation/assessment and repair
- Root-cause failure analysis
- New design and permit support
- Design modification
- Complex design review
- Structural special inspection for anchor bolts, welding, bolting, reinforcing steel, concrete, steel, and piles
- Engineering management and consulting
Our Specializations
- Tower crane and construction hoist foundations systems and tie-ins
- Scaffolding and other construction platforms
- Post Tensioned Concrete: Design, Evaluation, and Repair
- Precast concrete cladding and stair
- Temporary and permanent shoring walls, deep foundation design and installation
- Seismic upgrade evaluation, design, and construction support
- Finite element analysis
- Telecommunication structures such as antenna towers, roof top screen-walls and equipment platforms
- Storage silos, tanks, and biomass steel binWind engineering
- Site Structures: Retaining Walls & Detention Vaults
- Synchronized lift and jacking capabilities for heavy structures and bridge systems
Pursuing the Truth Through Humility and Service Since 1983!
Serving Clients Across a Variety of Industries
At Kent Crane Inspection & Engineering, we provide inspection and engineering across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, construction, heavy equipment and machinery, refineries and maritime.
Our staff of inspectors and engineers lend their range of specialties and deep expertise to each industry, inspecting and identifying failures in order to help represent our clients well and help build new, better, more efficient, and safer systems.

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- Michael Leach, MS, P.E.
- July 2021
- Case Study
In this case study, a concrete construction service hired Kent Engineering (KE) to design and load test concrete washout pans.

- Michael Leach, MS, P.E.
- July 2021
- Case Study
A welding company contacted Kent Engineering (KE) to perform testing for a new Welding Procedure Specification (WPS).

- Randy Kent, MS, P.E.
- June 2020
- Case Study
Our case study involves forensics and litigation support through an independent analysis of the failed saddle adaptor for a lifting-jack.