ABOUT Michael C. Head, PE

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Education
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering - University of Southampton, Southampton, England
M.S. in Structural Engineering. GPA = 3.0 (A=3.0). ​Teaching assistant - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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​Professional Registrations
Professional Structural Engineer (SE) in Georgia, Professional Engineer (PE) in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and a registered Florida Special Inspector
LEED® Accredited Professional (LEED AP BD+C)
Post-Disaster Safety Assessment Services Worker (California Emergency Management Agency)

Professional Affiliations
American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
​​​Structural Engineers Association of Georgia (SEAOG)
​National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA)
Structural Engineering, when performed correctly, enhances the form that the architect has devised.

Michael C. Head, PE created HEAD of Engineering to assist the legal, governmental, developer, design and construction communities in understanding and determining whether designs meet code minimums and the standard practice in the industry and, on occasion, perform forensic investigations into causes of failure of a facility to perform as was intended.

​Consequently, HEAD of Engineering, LLC gives an experienced option when problems arise on a project or in determining the cause when a building or building component has failed or otherwise caused an injury.

​Mr. Head has more than 40 years of structural engineering analysis, design and project/construction management experience throughout the United States and Saudi Arabia ranging from the design of new facilities, strengthening, renovation, retrofitting and repair of existing structures in the GMP, Design/Bid and Design/Bid/Build delivery methods and conducting forensic investigations as an expert witness.

Up until 2016, he has been primarily engaged in the design and construction of building structures. During that time he has seen the good and the bad, what works and what doesn't and seen the design and the construction processes change dramatically.

Since 2016 he has been working independently, primarily as an expert witness where his investigation, design and construction experience make him highly qualified to engage in forensic investigations and address a court as an expert witness.  He is available to assist the design, construction, developer, real estate and legal communities in analyzing problems and determining how to address and solve them.

Mr. Head was formerly Senior Structural Engineer in the Atlanta office of Heery International, a full service architectural, engineering, project management and construction management company with offices throughout the USA.

Prior to this, at TLC Engineering for Architecture, a multi-disciplinary firm (MEPS) in 12 offices in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee he was a Principal/Partner and Senior Structural Engineer where he served as Chairman of TLC’s Structural Committee.

He was responsible for the day-to-day development of projects from proposal to preliminary design through preparation of contract documents through construction to project completion and assistance to legal teams as an expert witness. His contributions include client liaison, managing the design team, engineering design, coordination of drafting, specification preparation, coordination with contractors and other disciplines, scheduling, shop drawing review and resolution of construction related issues on a wide range of projects that can be reviewed by clicking here

​His work experience at Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates Ltd, Brittingham and Associates, O'Kon and Company, Omrania (UK), Ltd and Ove Arup and Partners (now ARUP) also included many prestigious and complicated projects and forensic investigations.

He is a registered professional engineer in 8 states, a registered Florida Special Inspector, a LEED Accredited Professional and a Post-Disaster Safety Assessor.

His diverse portfolio includes aircraft hangars, airline terminals, apartment complexes, arenas, central utility plants, churches, concert halls, convention centers, educational facilities, medical facilities, gymnasiums, hotels, laboratories, manufacturing plants, low and high-rise office buildings, parking decks, performing arts centers and radiation treatment plants and multiple forensic investigations.

​His clients have included military and government agencies, universities and school boards, private developers, international airports and air carriers, banks, media corporations, hospitals and hotel chains, attorneys, developers, property owners and insurance companies.

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Michael C. Head, PE
Experience
HEAD of Engineering
​Atlanta, Georgia
2016-Present
Principal & Expert Witness

Assisting attorneys, insurance companies, contractors, architects, engineers, owners, and developers in determining whether a project was designed or constructed according to code minimums and the standard practice in the industry; conducting an investigation into causes of under-performance or failure; and determination of the cause when a building or building component has failed or otherwise resulted in an injury.
  • Dr. Phillips Orlando Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando, Florida
          Consultant for the Music Hall Theater Design for the completion of the facility
  • Lamplight Court Apartments, Doraville, Georgia                                                     Design for replacement Stairs and Balconies
  • 524 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia                                    Existing Building Structural Evaluation​
  • FNC School Master Plan - Kampala, Uganda                                                       ​ Structural Engineer for the Master Planning of a K-12, boarding school and     associated facilities for Engineering Ministries International
  • Expert Witness for attorneys on litigation cases in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennesse including:                                                                                                  Collapsed deck assessment injury following handrail failure                          Adequacy and safety of construction of elevated public walkway                         Injury from fall on unprotected bleachers                                                           Adequacy of new apartment complex roof truss construction.
Heery Int'l,
​Atlanta, Georgia
2012-2016
Sr. Associate/Sr.
​Structural Eng.
  • Seymour Johnson AFB Clinic, Goldsboro, North Carolina                                       Design/Build delivery of a new, two-story clinic facility that included a PTFE fabric roof over the Medical Mall Atrium and structural design to resist wind, seismic and Anti-Terrorist/Force Protection design loads.
  • Robins AFB Clinic Renovation and Structural Upgrade, Warner Robins, Georgia Design/Build renovation of 1960’s Facility to meet current wind, seismic and Anti-Terrorist/Force Protection design requirements.
  • Georgia Military Academy Basketball Arena, Milledgeville, Georgia                              Steel framed concrete upper story on a reinforced concrete lower level with basketball court, running track, weight room, and curved roof trusses.
  • Billerica House of Corrections Expansion, Middlesex County, Massachusetts            256 bed precast modules expansion and a two-story dorm with 240 beds
TLC Engineering for Architecture,
​Orlando, FL
2003-2012
​Principal/Partner
  • Dr. Phillips Orlando Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando, Florida                          New world-class state-of-the-art center including three performance halls (a 2,800 seat amplified theater, a 1,800-seat acoustic theater and a 300-seat theater), an outdoor plaza and performance space, rehearsal rooms, administrative offices and educational programming space $240M, 330,000 sf
  • Charlotte County Schools - Hurricane Charley 2004, Punta Gorda, Florida         Investigation and reports for all the Charlotte County schools, in various state of damage, in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley
  • Agrirama, Arcadia, Florida                                                                                             Investigation of the partially collapsed Agrirama Building during Hurricane Charley
  • Collier County Schools – Hurricane Wilma 2005, Naples Florida                     Investigation and reports for several Collier County schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma
  • Sarasota County Assembly Building                                                                           Investigation of partially collapsed, recently renovated Assembly Building
  • East Elementary School, Punta Gorda, Florida                                                         Replacement elementary school on site of hurricane destroyed school.  LEED Certified
  • Fort Myers Post Office, Fort Myers, Florida                                                                 Investigation of existing Post Office built in 1910 to be transformed into an Arts Center
  • Sarasota High School, Building 4, Sarasota, Florida                                                Investigation and report of the condition of a distressed historic structure built in 1950
  • WCI Headquarters Building, Bonita Springs, Florida                                                      200,000 sf, 6-story office building plus 4-level parking garage
​Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd.,
Atlanta, GA
​1996 – 2003
Sr. Structural Eng. ​
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  • First Congregational Church, Atlanta, Georgia                                                       Investigation and report for renovation, partial demolition and expansion of 1910 era  historic church
  • Three Wells Fargo Center Office Building and Parking Garage, Charlotte, NC            40-story, 1.3 million sq.ft. reinforced concrete office building.                                            4 above and 4 below ground parking levels.
  • Turner Chapel AME Cathedral, Marietta, Georgia                                                                  3,000 seat auditorium, 95,000 sq.ft. church
  • B-52 Two-bay Fuel Cell Maintenance Hangar, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, LA         60,000 sq. ft. structural steel hangar for two B-52 bombers
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory Building 110, Atlanta, Georgia ​​5-story reinforced concrete laboratory building with concrete interstitial floors designed to prevent progressive collapse in the event of a terrorist attack
  • Columbus Public Library, Columbus, Georgia
    3-story, 100,000 sq.ft. structural steel Library with Robert A.M. Stern Architects 
  • Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
    800 seat Concert Hall
    70 ft span trusses over 800 seat Concert Hall
    500 tons of acoustical, pre-cast concrete hung from the bottom of trusses
    Orchestra Rehearsal Hall, Dance Studio, Theater
  • Fort Valley Basketball Arena, Natatorium Complex, Fort Valley, Georgia
    1400 seat basketball arena and natatorium
Brittingham and Associates,
Norcross, GA
​1994 - 1996
Sr. Structural Eng.
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  •  Beaufort Marine Air Corps Station Expansion, Beaufort, South Carolina              Expansion of existing buildings and design of new hangars, training facilities, washracks and office facilities as part of the BRAC-III program
  • ·Jacksonville NAS Various Buildings                                                                  Renovation of paint and maintenance hangars                                                   Expansion of existing F-16 Naval Depot                                                             Investigation and renovation of various buildings
  • Meadowview Conference and Civic Center and Hotel, Kingsport, Tennessee       8-story flat plate, cast-in-place concrete hotel                                                     400,000 sq.ft. convention and civic center
O'Kon and Company, Atlanta, GA
1985 - 1994
Sr. Project Eng.
  • Pre-Civil War Woollen Mill Investigation, Atlanta, Georgia                                             Report for preserving Pre-Civil War structure
  • Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama                                                        Forensic investigation of partial collapse during construction
  • Various miscellaneous forensic investigations
  • Jacksonville NAS Building, Jacksonville, Florida                                           ​Investigation and report of a 1940’s building with long-span timber trusses
  • Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida                                                                 1.2 million sq.ft post-tensioned parking garage                                                               500 room, post-tensioned flat slab hotel                                                                 500,000 sq.ft. composite steel Flight Center/Airside Terminal for Delta Airlines
  • Resurgens Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia                                                                                        30-story office building and parking garage built in Rapid Transit Rail air rights
Omrania (UK) Ltd., London, UK and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
​1982- 1983
Project Engineer
  • Design of multiple projects in Saudi Arabia for the London office of a multi-disciplinary, Saudi Arabian company  ​
Ove Arup and Partners (now ARUP), London, UK, and
​Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
​1977 - 1982
Project Engineer
  • Hillat Al Hammad shopping center and parking garage
  • Shumaisi and Al Taif Hospital Expansions
  • Various villas and low to medium-rise office buildings and hotels
  • KOCOMMAS Government Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia​​
Michael C. Head, PE
mhead@headofeng.com

​HEAD of Engineering, LLC
885 Woodstock Road
Suite 430-510
Atlanta, GA 30075-2274​

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