Pierce Engineers

Pierce Engineers is a structural engineering firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, working on commercial, institutional, residential, and mixed-use buildings across the region and beyond. The firm handles structural design and analysis, with a practice built on close coordination with architects and contractors on both new construction and renovation. Pierce is the structural engineer on The Meridian, an 80-unit mixed-use development in Thiensville. The firm pairs conventional structural work with expertise in existing-building assessment, the kind of adaptive-reuse and renovation engineering that older Midwestern downtowns increasingly need as they add housing.

Pierce Engineers works from four offices, its Milwaukee headquarters at 181 N Broadway plus locations in Madison, Chicago, and Denver, and practices nationally with professional and structural engineering licenses in all 50 states. The firm has built its structural expertise over roughly three decades.

Its core services are structural design, connection design, and restoration. Project experience spans a wide set of building types, including adaptive reuse, historic and cold-formed metal framing, healthcare, education, corporate, industrial, parking structures, sports and recreation, worship, mid- and high-rise, and public and municipal work. That range lets the team move between ground-up structures and the renovation or assessment of existing buildings from the same Midwest base.