Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.
About
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, known as SGH, is an engineering firm based in Waltham that designs and investigates structures and building enclosures. Its services include structural engineering, building enclosure design, advanced analysis, performance and code consulting, and applied science and research. Clients range across commercial, cultural, education, energy, government, health care, industrial, infrastructure, residential and defense markets, and recent challenges include mitigating settlement and tilting at one of San Francisco’s tallest residential buildings.
MIT professors Howard Simpson, Werner Gumpertz and Frank Heger founded the firm in 1956, and it has since grown to about 800 employees in offices across the United States. Its project history includes NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, Epcot’s Spaceship Earth, the U.S. Pavilion at Expo ’67 and the investigation of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. SGH runs its own laboratory to test how structures and materials behave and to explain failures.
What to Know
- The firm publishes an embodied carbon action plan under the SE 2050 initiative.
- It has a downtown Boston office in addition to its Waltham headquarters.
- Recent work includes restoring the historic Ghirardelli Square clock tower in San Francisco.
- SGH hires students and interns as well as experienced professionals.
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