Meagan first encountered engineering in a high school STEM program. She was captivated by learning how to analyze a truss and working with the logic of how forces move through components. To this day, she still loves how even the most complicated structures must satisfy the same fundamental laws of physics.
While she still does some structural analysis, Meagan spends most of her time coordinating with other disciplines, answering questions that arise during construction, and supervising junior engineers with their designs. Passionate about sustainable design, she leads our commitment to SE2050. This is a challenge put out by the Structural Engineering Institute for structural engineering firms to lower embodied carbon and drive their projects toward net zero by 2050. She leads a team that performs life cycle assessments on ten of our projects annually for submission to SE2050’s database as part of that commitment.
When she isn’t leading her team, Meagan tries to get as far away from cell phone service as possible. That means hiking and backpacking with her husband and their German Shepherd, Atlas, all over the Pacific Northwest and Canada. She loves the fresh air, the quiet, and the reminder that beautiful spaces will only stay that way if we’re responsible stewards of Earth’s resources.