Services

Wright Fire & Forensics' professional, unbiased, comprehensive, and value-added consulting services include fire investigation and forensic engineering for failure analysis in various engineering disciplines.

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360 Photography

Walk through any scene without leaving your desk.

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Aerial Photography UAV

Get a detailed bird's eye view of any structure, facility, or property.

Appliances

Appliance Testing

Our staff perform the necessary evaluation and testing to make a proper determination on appliance fires and failures.

Heavy Equipment

Auto, Marine, & Construction

Equipment used in agriculture and construction represents an enormous investment.  Wright Fire & Forensics quickly identifies failure factors so that repairs or replacements can be completed with minimal downtime.

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Civil, Electrical, Geotechnical, Mechanical, & Structural

We maintain expertise in various engineering disciplines.  Give us a call to determine if we can assist with your project.

 

Construction Defects Analysis

Construction & Material Defects

Thorough analysis of construction defects to determine building practices and products involved.

Electrical Systems

Electrical Systems

Engineering and investigative staff specialize in the evaluation and analysis of a broad range of electrical issues from industrial systems to fire origin and cause.

Evidence Storage

Evidence Storage

Our new facility has a large warehouse well suited for the secure storage and effective examination of all types of evidence.

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Examination Hosting

Our facility has an examination room and warehouse that are available to host evidence examinations.  Facility has conditioned space, equipment, power, large bay doors, and a loading dock for access.

Expert Testimony

Expert Testimony

In litigation, our professionals serve as witnesses to provide authoritative, expert testimony following investigations or case study.

Fires and explosions

Fire & Explosions

Investigation into factors that contributed to a fire or explosion in losses from small structures to large, complex multi-million dollar scenes.

Fire Suppression

Fire Suppression

Fire suppression system failures can encompass a wide array of reasons and damages.  We get to the root of the matter in restaurants, residential, commercial, and industrial structures.

Foundation Issue

Foundation Failures

Structural damage can occur to building foundations from sensitive soils, shrinking and swelling of foundation soils, poorly placed structural fill, effects of groundwater, and out-of-specification construction. Various investigative techniques can be used to identify and determine the cause of a foundation failure.

 

Fuel and Gas Fires

Fuel Gas

We investigate scenes where appliances and equipment fueled by liquid or gaseous fuels failed.

HVAC Systems

HVAC & Refrigeration

Our engineers identify causes for equipment failure in residential, restaurant, offices, and refrigerated storage.

Mechanical Systems

Mechanical Systems

Our experienced mechanical engineer will identify mechanical equipment and systems failures, both premature arising from manufacturing or installation defects or from other causes.

Moisture Infiltration

Moisture Infiltration

Moisture infiltration, whether slow or sudden, needs immediate resolution.  Our team is skilled in evaluating the source quickly.

Piping and Plumbing

Piping & Plumbing

Pipe failure leads to water damage, fire, explosion, and many other disruptions of business and life.  We provide timely and thorough analysis of the failure.

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Property Damage

Damage can occur to structures from several external factors, such as vehicle impacts, tree impacts, long-term moisture damage, wood boring insects, rodent activity, Out of spec construction, and acts of nature. Deciphering the cause of damage takes good-quality expertise and knowledge.

 

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Retaining Walls

Retaining walls are often incorporated into building components or utilized to support soils surrounding properties and structures. Failures can occur due to an overloading of the wall capacity by earth pressures, poor wall construction, vehicle impacts, hydraulice loading, vegetation, and chemical attack.

 

Sinkhole

Sinkhole & Settlement

Movement of the earth due to karst activity, such as sinkholes and soil consolidation, will damage a structure. Numerous investigative techniques can be utilized, such as subsurface drilling, soil laboratory testing, soil resistivity, seismic refraction, and ground penetrating radar (GPR) to better define the cause of damage.

 

Lightning and Hail Damage

Storm Damage

Investigation of damage resulting from destructive forces of nature – lightning, wind, and hail.

Testing and Evaluation

Testing

Our examination and testing facility has the space and equipment to conduct a large variety of testing for appliances and equipment.

Mobile X-Ray for Examination and Analysis of Forensic Evidence

X-Ray

Non-destructive x-rays of appliances and components are available at our facility with mobile x-ray equipment. This enables same day examination of components and analysis of digital x-ray images

Need a dependable, experienced, competent 
Forensics Investigation Team?