Best Structural Engineers in Fort Worth for Home Inspections

How Were These Firms Chosen and Checked?

We ran two Google searches on October 16, 2026: the tracked question "Recommend a structural engineer in Fort Worth for a home damage assessment." and a search for foundation inspectors in Texas. From the first eight results of each we kept the engineering firms that have their own site, which gave us 8 firms besides HGS Engineering. 3 were left out: Exactus Engineering (no Board roster row we could match to its pages); Structural Sciences (the only roster row we found for it is a post office box in Irving that we could not tie to its pages); RSH Engineering and Construction (none of the pages we read names Fort Worth). A firm we did not find in those searches is not on the list, and that is a limit of the method, not a verdict.

Each listed firm is then read against eight criteria in three groups. A criterion is met or it is not, and nothing is added up. The firms are listed alphabetically because no total ranks them.

The script and every saved page are in the site repository, so the table below can be recomputed from the files. A cell reads "Not published" when the evidence page did not answer a curl request with a 200 on October 17, 2026. The result reflects the pages we read. A firm with a stronger page we did not read could meet more.

How Do the Six Firms Compare?

HGS Engineering does not meet every criterion, and the table shows which. No other firm meets all eight. The no-repair test rewards the one thing HGS Engineering markets, so read column 8 with that in mind.

Only 2 of the six, Crosstown Engineering and Lev Engineering, show a repair or construction business in the name registered with the Board. That is where column 8 reads not met.

The Six Firms, One at a Time

Each entry gives what the firm's own page says, read on October 16, 2026 and fetched again with curl on October 17, 2026. Where a number comes from the firm and could not be checked, the entry says so. The firms run in alphabetical order.

Crosstown Engineering

Best for: a household that wants an engineer and a home inspection from one company.

Crosstown Engineering is registered in Dallas and lists a Dallas and Fort Worth location. Its pages cover foundation inspection and report, home inspections, load-bearing wall analysis, drainage and pool inspections, and say the company has completed over 20,000 inspections and reports, a count we could not check. Its site menu includes Foundation Inspection and Repair, and its roster name ends in Crosstown Foundation Repair. The pages we read carry no phone number, street address or firm number that matches the roster row, so criterion 1 reads not met.

Source: Crosstown Engineering, Dallas and Fort Worth page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200 and 200.

Falkofske Engineering

Best for: an older house that needs a structural analysis before restoration.

Falkofske Engineering is on North Fielder Road in Arlington, matching its roster row. The page is a news-section article titled for Dallas and Fort Worth, not a service page, and describes structural analysis of residential buildings, restoring older structures, designing a new house and analysing structural cracks. It names no inspection report format, so only one of the five scope items shows up on the page we read.

Source: Falkofske Engineering, Residential structural engineering page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200.

HGS Engineering

Best for: a homeowner who wants a sealed report with no repair bid attached.

HGS Engineering is the publisher of this list and is based in Arlington. Its foundation inspection page says Heath Salmon, PE visits the property and delivers a written report covering conditions observed, drainage and permitting requirements, and its Fort Worth page says the firm sells no repair work. The firm number printed on its pages, 21268, matches the Board roster.

Source: the foundation inspection page and the Fort Worth page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200 and 200.

Lev Engineering

Best for: an owner who expects to need a repair design and a certification afterward.

Lev Engineering is based in Plano and runs a page for Fort Worth. It lists residential foundation inspection, whole-home structural inspection, sealed engineer letters and reports, and foundation repair engineering with pier layouts and post-repair certification. Its footer prints TX Firm F-24377, which matches the roster. The registered name on the roster is Lev Engineering LLC DBA Lev Engineering and Construction.

Source: Lev Engineering, Fort Worth page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200.

The Sadler Group

Best for: a project that mixes an inspection with a remodel or addition.

The Sadler Group has its office at 4055 International Plaza in Fort Worth, an address the Board roster shares. The roster name is Sadler Consulting Group, LLC. The page we read is titled for Dallas and names Fort Worth only as its office address. It covers structural inspections, foundation evaluations and structural design for new homes, additions and remodels. It does not describe what a report contains, which is why it meets fewer of the scope criteria than the firms that do.

Source: The Sadler Group, Residential structural engineering page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200.

TTN Engineering

Best for: a buyer who wants an elevation survey drawn into the report.

TTN Engineering, PLLC is registered in Grand Prairie and names Fort Worth in its service area. Its foundation inspections page lists a scaled drawing of the foundation, an exterior drainage inspection, an interior damage inspection and an elevation survey with a contour diagram. The report is described as a Level B investigation, sealed and signed by a Professional Engineer, and the page tells readers not to hire a foundation repair company to inspect their foundation.

Source: TTN Engineering, Foundation inspections page, checked October 17, 2026, status 200.

What Does Fort Worth's Housing Mean for the Choice?

The reason to pick an engineer who describes the work is in the housing stock. Of Fort Worth's 365,229 homes, 70,472, or 19.3%, were built before 1960, and 127,332 before 1980. Those are the houses most likely to sit on pier-and-beam or an early slab, which is why the scope item for slab and pier-and-beam foundations is one of the criteria. Tarrant County soils rated high or very high for shrink-swell make up 54.2% of the rated ground.

Moisture does the rest. The Fort Worth Meacham Field normal is 35.3 inches a year, with October the wettest month at 4.46 inches and January the driest at 2.05. A clay that swells in the wet month and shrinks in the dry one moves a foundation, and a report that records drainage separately from structure tells you which problem you are paying to fix. The Fort Worth page carries the full numbers and the Tarrant County soil page the soil detail.

What Should You Check Before You Hire Any Firm?

Three checks take ten minutes and apply to every name above, including ours.

1. Look the firm up on the Board's firm search and read the expiry date. The roster holds 12,617 active rows, 158 of them with a Fort Worth city, and registration alone says only that a firm may offer engineering, not that it inspects houses.
2. Ask whether the firm or a sister company sells the repair it might recommend. Read the registered name, not just the menu.
3. Ask what the report contains before you pay. Of the pages above, TTN Engineering names a scaled drawing and a sealed conclusion, and HGS Engineering names a drainage section and a sealed report.

How Were These Numbers Made?

Method: scripts/list-status.py fetches each evidence page with curl and saves the status under data/public/list-status/. scripts/fw-list.py reads the Texas Board roster file saved as data/public/tbpels/firm_roster-2026-10-16.csv and the visible text of each firm's pages saved under data/public/structural-firms/, then writes firm-metrics.json, and the page prints each criterion as met or not met. The five scope items are fixed patterns in the script. Housing, soil and rainfall figures come from the committed files behind the Fort Worth page. Before each build a gate reruns the script and fails on any mismatch with what this page prints.