W.E. Gundy and Associates, Inc. is a structural engineering company that has been incorporated for over 30 years providing structural evaluation of electrical-mechanical equipment and support structures for seismic, wind, ice, snow, wave, and operational loads. We maintain a specialized focus in seismic qualification and design of electrical substation transmission and distribution equipment and building electrical-mechanical equipment worldwide.
“Our mission is to serve the power industry in providing technically sound, practical, economical, and timely solutions for structural and earthquake engineering applications.”
WEGAI has extensive experience in Shake Table Testing and are experts in Finite Element Modeling and analysis of electrical-mechanical equipment. Our experience with shake table testing provides us with invaluable knowledge and insight that helps us validate the results of our FEM analysis. We can identify the different structural requirements for equipment in any building code or project specification and can assist the manufacturer in meeting these requirements. We understand the importance of communicating the results of our work and pay special attention to providing a report that is both technically sound and easy to follow. We are committed to making the analysis and qualification process of electrical and mechanical equipment as smooth as possible.
The WEGAI team is licensed as Professional Structural Engineers in Illinois and Utah and as Professional Civil Engineers in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New York, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Additionally our staff is registered with the NCEES for expedited reciprocity licensure for any other state.