DLD Engineering

The leadership of DLD Engineering has been actively engaged in providing Structural Engineering services since 1991. As Structural Consultants to owners, architects, and contractors; DLD Engineering leadership has been responsible for the design of many structures. These structures include parking structures, residential and multi-family facilities, education facilities, hotel facilities, sports facilities, industrial facilities, museums, libraries, hospitals, office buildings, and municipal buildings. We have also been retained by clients to assist them in the designs for renovating, retrofitting, and repairing their facilities.

DLD Engineering offers a full range of Structural Engineering Consulting Services including analysis and design of structures, construction document preparation, building information modeling (BIM), construction contract administration, special structural inspections, value engineering, peer review, consultations, evaluations and reports. In our many years of practice, we have completed more than 400 projects in the United States and abroad.

Developing and maintaining efficient and cost effective methods are of paramount importance to us. When presented with complex problems, DLD Engineering, drawing on its years of experience, can in conjunction with owners, architects, and contractors, produce innovative, reliable and economical solutions. Listening to the things that make an asset valuable to our clients, and to their buildings users, gives direction to our designs. In response to efficiency as a key concern, our structural engineering and integrated design conserve materials in construction. And to create buildings that operate on lighter costs and fewer resources, we pursue excellence in high-performance systems. We make sure that our structural engineers work closely with clients and collaborators and stay up to date with industry issues so that they can innovate in response to real-world challenges and constraints.

Our clients know that they have not just hired a structural engineering company; they have retained a renowned and respected project management leadership with a long history of excellence, reliability, and client service.

OUR PARTNERS

PRESIDENT

Slaven Seferovic,P.E.

Offer more than 25 years of structural engineering, design, project management, value engineering and structural system selection experience. He is experienced for a wide variety of projects including mid/high rise projects, condominiums, lofts, apartments, hotels, golf clubhouses, commercial, industrial facilities, water treatment facilities, medical office buildings, parking structures, office buildings, educational facilities, restaurants, retail facilities, community centers, fire stations, churches, child care centers, libraries, banks, and recreational facilities. He uses wood, masonry, structural steel, light gage steel, tilt up concrete, precast concrete, post-tensioned concrete and reinforced concrete in the structural design. Role and responsibilities included: active involvement throughout design and construction processes, coordination of project personnel, project design, planning and budget control, value engineering to determine appropriate and economical systems, drafting accuracy reviews, and preparing proposals for prospective jobs.

Principal / Director of Business Development

W. chet Emmett, P.E.

1993 Graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a Civil Engineering degree and multiple graduate level courses in analysis, steel and masonry
Held multiple high-level positions throughout career including Vice President, Principal, Managing Director of Dallas office, and Director of Structural Engineering
Extensive knowledge in structural analysis and building design, all primary structural building materials, forensic engineering, project delivery/management, client management, proposal preparation, construction financials/pay app reviews, billing/invoicing, etc.
Building structure experience includes new hospital structures, additions to existing building structures, linear accelerator vaults, higher education residence halls and dining halls, k-12 structures, ICC storm shelter design, sports venue structures ranging from 4000 to 10,000 seats), expansive indoor practice facilities for both K-12 and higher education, multi-family developments, hospitality, commercial, post-tensioned parking structures (largest one being DFW Airport Terminal A garage replacement approximately 7,500 cars and five levels), precast concrete parking structures, mixed use high rise, religious, parks and rec, data centers, and more…
Extensive field experience with all structure types
Extensive experience working in high-seismic and hurricane wind locations, including but not limited to, working closely with O.S.H.P.D. in the State of California to facilitate the construction of a new concrete hospital structure (3 structures separated by a seismic expansion joint at all levels) located less than one-half mile from the active fault line.

Senior Structural Engineer

Samuel E. Navadeh,P.E.

Mr. Navadeh specialized in post-tensioned concrete framed structures and high-rise designs. Mr. Navadeh has over seven years of experience in providing structural engineering services for hospitality, multifamily residential, mixed-use, commercial, and healthcare projects.

Mr. Navadeh’s portfolio includes the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Estero Bay, Florida, a project that provides 224 residences in two 22-story towers, sitting within 500 acres of lush lands on the bay, the state’s first aquatic preserve dedicated in December 1966; The Island at West Bay Club in Estero, Florida, a 425,000 sf, 24-story luxury residential tower providing 86 units and a rooftop pool; Parke West Luxury Residential in Nashville, Tennessee, a premiere mixed-use development consisting of 210 residential units, a Hilton hotel, a street-level retail; Broadwest, a mixed-use project including a 34-story residential tower providing 196 high-end condominiums anchored by a 237-story residential tower providing 196 high-end condominiums anchored by a 237-room luxury Conrad Nashville hotel and a 21-story, 510,000 sf Class A office tower in Nashville, Tennessee; The Ursa, a 180,000 sf Class A+ office building in Miami’s Design District in Florida; and Thrive Lewisville in Texas, a 87,000 sf recreational center including gymnasium, indoor walking track and playground, fitness areas and studios, and Lewisville’s first indoor pool.

As a forensic engineer, Mr. Navadeh has conducted inspections of commercial and residential properties assisting clients with assessing potential damage to various building components. These forensics analysis included low slope commercial roofs, modified bitumen roof, SPF, TPO, EPDM, grading and drainage issues, stormwater flow analysis, geotechnical analysis, review and rebuttal of SPF installation standards. Mr. Navadeh has provided forensic services on a wide variety of projects including single family residential projects to large multidisciplinary commercial projects.

Mr. Navadeh holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from American University, UAE.