About Our Speakers
Brian Eubanks MSCE, PE, SE, D-IBFES, DFE
Principal Structural Engineer
Paragon Structural Engineering
Bio
Brian C. Eubanks, MSCE, PE, D-IBFES, DFE is the founder and Principal Structural Engineer of Paragon Structural Engineering, LTD, (PSE) a structural design and forensic investigation firm based in Plano, Texas. Mr. Eubanks leads a technical staff comprising professional engineers, graduate engineers, project managers, and field technicians in the structural design and forensic investigation of planned and existing structures. His structural design services include analysis and engineering of large, custom single-family residences, multi-family apartment/condominium complexes, low-rise commercial facilities, warehouses and ancillary structures (retaining walls, screen walls, and swimming pools). He also performs construction phase observations of the aforementioned structural systems to verify design compliance. Mr. Eubanks has performed engineering designs for thousands of residential and low-rise commercial structures as well as hundreds of retaining walls, screen walls, and pools. His forensic services include investigations and assessments regarding the design, construction, and standard of care associated with planned improvements and the built environment involving geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interactions, structural systems, civil sitework, exterior cladding systems, building envelopes (moisture and thermal), peril damage, and personal injury. Geotechnical engineering assessments include claims related to sampling/testing of expansive soils, soil design parameters, global stability analysis, and recommendations for foundations, retaining walls, and site development. Soil-structure interaction assessments include claims relating to design, construction, historic/current site effects, and moisture source influences. Structural system assessments include claims relating to design and construction issues as well as evaluations of applicable performance standards. Civil sitework assessments include claims related to grading/drainage conditions, exterior flatwork elements, accessibility, egress, and pavement systems. Exterior cladding system assessments include claims related to design, installation, integration, performance, and warranty standards. Building envelope assessments include claims related to roof coverings, veneers, flashing, and water-resistive barriers, air infiltration/exfiltration, insulation, and attic ventilation. Peril damage assessments include claims related to cause, origin, and extent of wind damage, hurricane damage, tornado damage, lightning strikes, hail, flood, earthquakes, explosions, fire damage, and vehicle-structure collisions. Mr. Eubanks performs site investigations and devises protocols for site-specific investigative strategies that may include relative elevation surveys, geotechnical testing, geophysical resistivity surveys, ground-penetrating radar surveys, groundwater monitoring, water chemical analysis, test pit excavations, material strength tests, water application/infiltration tests, cladding anchorage surveys, moisture content measurements, infrared thermography, and borescope observations. His typical projects include single-family residences, multi-family apartment/condominium complexes, commercial facilities, warehouses, institutional facilities, industrial facilities, as well as ancillary structures such as retaining walls, screen walls, and swimming pools. Mr. Eubanks has performed thousands of forensic investigations, and he has authored thousands of expert reports for use in mediation, arbitration, and/or litigation. In addition, he has provided expert witness testimony in dozens of mediations, arbitrations, and court cases. Mr. Eubanks received his Bachelor and Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in 15 states, a Licensed Structural Engineer, a Senior Board-Certified Diplomate in Forensic Engineering by the National Academy of Forensic Engineers, and a Diplomate of the International Board of Forensic Engineering Sciences. He is Building Envelope Trained, and Certified by the Building Envelope Science Institute, is a Certified Windstorm Inspector by the Texas Department of Insurance, and a Model Law Engineer with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). Mr. Eubanks also serves as a member of the American Concrete Institute’s Design of Slabs-on-Ground Committee (360), the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Forensic Investigations, the Residential Foundation Investigation and Design Subcommittee (ASCE-Texas Section), and the Residential Foundation Evaluation and Repair Subcommittee (ASCE – Texas Section), the Post-Tensioning Institute’s Slab-on-Ground Committee (DC-10), Structural (DC-10A) and Construction/Maintenance (DC-10D) Subcommittees, the ASTM International Committees on Concrete Aggregates (C-09), Forensic Engineering (E-58), Soil and Rock (D-18), and Wood (D-07), the Dallas Builders Association Education Committee, International Code Council’s North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Texas Association of Builders Attorney Council / Legal Affairs Committee and Codes & Standards Committee and the Construction Research Advisory Committee at the University of Texas at Arlington. Additionally, he has served as an Arbitrator, a Technical Paper Reviewer, is designated as a Technical Expert by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, and on the Board of Trustees for Prestonwood Christian Academy as the Development Committee Chair. Mr. Eubanks aims to educate with regard to soil-structure interaction, the design, performance, and evaluation of structural systems, the evaluations of building envelopes, causes and origins of damage to new and existing structures, and remedial solutions.
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