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Spyder Engineers, LLC is a structural engineering firm based in Abingdon, Maryland that delivers structural consulting services to facility and building clients and integrates into multi-firm design teams. Its services span new construction design, renovation of existing structures, structural condition investigations, and structural support for mechanical and electrical equipment. Spyder Engineers has designed and analyzed healthcare facilities, multifamily residential buildings, municipal water pump stations, and retail renovation projects across Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
Shuxian (Susanne) WasseniusPresident
Design of new concrete, masonry, wood, and steel structures using 3D analysis programs to verify resistance to gravity and environmental loading. Project types include high-rise and low-rise buildings, garages, pre-engineered buildings, retaining structures, and post-frame structures.
Structural engineering for upgrades, retrofits, and renovations of existing buildings.
Structural design for new and renovated healthcare facilities including hospitals, medical centers, and behavioral health campuses. Scope includes coordination with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection disciplines and compliance with healthcare-specific loading and layout requirements.
Structural analysis and design for supporting or relocating heavy mechanical and electrical equipment.
Healthcare · Water Supply · Multifamily Residential · Senior Living · Retail · Government
Middle River, MD · Healthcare · Client: Curry Architects
Structural engineer of record for a 30,000-square-foot, 50-bed healthcare campus for Hygea Healthcare in Middle River, Maryland. Responsibilities included 3D structural analysis for gravity and environmental loading, design of a two-story storefront system, and coordination with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection disciplines.
Baltimore, MD · Healthcare · Client: Setty & Associates
Structural engineering for renovation of the MRI room on the first floor of the UMMC Gudelsky Building. Work included analysis of four rigging paths to transport an 11,000-pound MRI unit, letter of recommendation for the rigging analysis, rigging sequencing support, review of shoring schemes, and structural analysis of the MRI suite for new equipment loading.
Baltimore County, MD · Water Supply · Client: Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc. (JMT)
Structural design for three new structures as part of improvements to the Cromwell Water Pump Station, which supplies water to 1.8 million people in the Baltimore region. Structures include a 32-foot two-story electrical building on grade beam and pile foundations, a new 32-foot pump building with 12-ton overhead crane support and alternating diagonal brace lateral system, and a 19-foot hypochlorite building. Ancillary work included concrete slab pads for transformers and switchgear and a pile-supported mat for an auxiliary generator.
Cockeysville, MD; Fallston, MD; Sterling, VA · Retail · Client: Curry Architects
Structural engineering for a series of coffee retail store renovations in Maryland and Virginia. At the Cockeysville, Maryland location, a former bank drive-through building was converted, enclosing drive-through lanes to expand interior space from approximately 1,088 to 1,630 square feet. Work also included a building addition, exterior rebranding modifications, and reinforcement of an existing beam for column removal.