Engineering Excellence Since 1983
Kent Engineering | Architectural Diagnostics (KE|AD) is dedicated to providing expert services in building diagnostics and repair, condition assessment, and expert witness consulting, focusing on architecture, construction, building enclosures, and building systems. The firm’s primary mission is to offer professional and technically rigorous engineering and architectural services, emphasizing thorough investigation and effective problem solving in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and around the world.
We live in a complex and imperfect world, where perfect people and perfect objectivity do not exist, but the truth does. Our clients are recipients of those imperfections, seeking answers and solutions to the wide range of technical problems they face. Employing sound science and engineering, as well as deep expertise, we endeavor to tell and reveal the truth to those we serve through inspection, root cause, analysis, design, architectural and building system diagnostics.

Problem Solving. Innovation. Safety.
KE | AD
Building diagnostics and repair, expert witness consulting and problem solving for architecture and construction.
Kent Engineering
Forensic engineering and inspection for a variety of services across a broad range of industries.
Kent Crane
Inspection, certification, and engineering services for cranes, hoists, and other lifting equipment.
Kent Inspection
Welding, Non-Destructive Testing, Design & Analysis across a broad range of industries.
Engineering. Architecture. Construction Administration.
We know that finding the right partner for your engineering, architectural and construction administrative needs is of the utmost importance. Which is why our dynamic and multi-layered engineering and architectural firm is dedicated to providing offer professional and technically rigorous services.
We help our clients solve problems, innovate, and build safer systems.
Our Proven 4-Step Process
- We first identify the problem.
- Assemble a team of experts who have the technical knowledge necessary to investigate the failure.
- With the team in place, we begin our investigation, following careful research protocols.
- Once we’ve discovered the cause of the failure and the “why” behind it, we report our findings in the clearest, truest way possible.
SAFETY

