Civil Engineering and Site Development & Grading.
Pillar Consulting Group, Inc. is an engineering consulting practice offering civil and structural engineering, facility design, and project management. Providing engineered solutions to architects, plant engineers, contractors, and facility owners throughout the Pacific Northwest since 1997, it serves commercial, industrial, and institutional clients. Civil engineering services cover site development, stormwater management, land use permitting, utilities, and rail facilities. Structural engineering covers all common building systems and materials including reinforced concrete, structural steel, masonry, heavy timber, and cold-formed steel, with specializations in blast-resistant design, API tank design, seismic evaluation and retrofit, and forensic structural engineering. Facilities design serves industrial plant owners with fire and life-safety code review, building layout, equipment configuration, and hazardous materials design.
Comprehensive civil engineering services focused on meeting the needs of site and facility owners in the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets.
Industrial and commercial site clearing, grading, and layout including parking lots, roadways, and shipping/receiving facility design.
Land use approval studies, planned developments, variance requests, erosion and sediment control plans, and NPDES 1200C permitting.
Urban hydrology, stormwater routing, detention facilities, and water quality treatment systems including bioswales and detention ponds.
Domestic and fire water distribution systems, flow testing, modeling, fire water booster pumps, sanitary sewers, and lift stations.
Rail access spurs and facilities, culverts, and small pedestrian and vehicle bridges.
Structural design and analysis for new construction, seismic retrofits, and building rehabilitations. Expert analysis covers reinforced concrete, post-tensioned flat slabs, precast and tilt-up concrete, structural steel, masonry, heavy timber, and cold-formed steel.
Low and medium rise commercial buildings, retail complexes, office and medical office buildings, multifamily residential, parking structures, manufacturing and warehouse buildings, and crane buildings.
Equipment foundations, equipment towers and platforms, pipe bridges, API tanks, machine foundations, and material handlers.
Seismic rehabilitation of existing structures, seismic deficiency identification, and mitigation strategy development.
Blast-resistant design of buildings and structures, explosion and blast-resistant barriers, and deflagration control systems.
Investigation of building component failures, repair of wind and snow damaged structures, and forensic analysis.
Engineering services for industrial plants and facility managers covering fire and life-safety code review, building layout and design, equipment configuration, hazardous materials handling, and retrofits to existing facilities.
Fire and life-safety code review studies, planning, fire water distribution systems, hazardous materials storage design, flammable liquid use, secondary containment systems, and high-piled combustible storage.
Buildings and warehouses, shipping and receiving facilities, equipment configuration and layout, process platforms and towers, cranes and material handlers, process piping, and deep excavations and pits.
from concept to closeout, coordinating multiple specialty sub-consultants or providing focused technical expertise.
Industrial · Commercial · Manufacturing · Education · Pharmaceutical · Retail · Multifamily Residential · Mixed-Use · Metals · Historic Preservation · Freight & Logistics · Aerospace
Corvallis, OR · Education · Client: Oregon State University
Civil engineering services for a state-of-the-art agricultural teaching facility at Oregon State University. This project was the first building in a large master plan and required forward-thinking utility and roadway designs.
Linn County, OR · Pharmaceutical · Client: Tec Labs
Civil engineering design for a new pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility on an undeveloped site. The project was developed to accommodate future expansion of the local business.
Education
Civil engineering for a university research and teaching facility with integrated cattle handling, housing, and processing. The design included roadway improvements, stormwater quality considerations, and coordination of multiple underground utilities.
Corvallis, OR · Commercial
Structural engineering services for a six-story commercial building in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. The building utilizes micro-piles and a combination of braced frames and masonry shear walls for its lateral system.