Syntec Engineering Group

Syntec Engineering Group, Inc. (SEG) is a consulting engineering firm established in 1989 to provide wide range of engineering services to residential, commercial and municipal clients. The exposures to both the Design Stage & Failure Investigations provide unique prospective to our clients that potentially save them.

Distress signs in the form of cracks in the brick or the sheetrock, out of alignment doors and sloping floors are common in the expansive clay soils present in the DFW area. So, if you are a homeowner, home buyer or home seller, you want to ensure that these cracks are not signs of foundation distress.

SEG provides failure investigation/ forensic investigation services concerning soil-structure interactions and performance of structural systems. Soil-structure interaction assessments include investigations relating to design and construction of foundations, slope failures and retaining walls.

SEG forensic expertise includes investigations of single-family residences, multi-family apartment/condominium complexes, commercial facilities, as well as retaining walls, screen walls, and swimming pools.SEG principal engineer has provided expert witness testimony in hundreds of medications/arbitrations and court testimony concerning soil structure interactions for residential foundations and retaining wall failures.

SEG has been providing soil testing/geotechnical investigations or sometimes referred to as "soil report" for private and public sector clients in the north Texas area. Soil sampling is performed typically by advancing test borings using a drill rig. The number and depth of the borings depend on the geological formation, the proposed development and the size and complexity of the project.