Building More Than Structures: The Culture Behind D.H. Charles – a Best Firm to Work For
Where Form Meets Function: Scaffold Design
My name is Samu Lilio, and I am a senior drafter here at DH Charles Engineering. I have been with the company for going on 20 years. I started my career here and have the privilege of being a part of a company for this…
Women in Engineering: Building Careers, Solving Challenges, and Shaping the Future
Engineering is about more than calculations and technical expertise, it’s about creativity, problem-solving, and finding innovative ways to bring complex projects to life. As the engineering profession continues to evolve, women are making significant contributions across every discipline, helping shape the built environment and drive…
Suspended Steel and Layher Innovation
Complex High Rise Scaffolding Solutions When a building’s geometry doesn’t cooperate with conventional scaffold logic, the engineering has to carry the weight. This project demanded exactly that: a complex, load-transferring scaffold system that wrapped a mid-rise building popout at elevation without landing a single leg…
Lancaster City Hall Restoration
D.H. Charles Engineering’s designed to preserve a piece of American history through the Lancaster City Hall Restoration in Lancaster, OH. Working alongside The Tradesmen Group and Universal Manufacturing, Mark served as the engineer behind the worker access solution supporting the restoration of this 1897 Richardsonian-Romanesque landmark.
Tackling Complex Shoring Challenges on the I-25 Over Comanche Road Expansion
How do you widen a highway, add new bridges, and keep traffic moving—all while working in tight spaces and around existing infrastructure? That was the challenge our team faced on the I-25 Over Comanche Road expansion project. At DHC, we pride ourselves on helping customers…
Public Access and Protection Solutions
While originally designed for the variable and unpredictable world of construction, many of the same features that make modular scaffold indispensable on the job site make it just as applicable for use in publicly accessible structures, such as stairs and pedestrian ramps. Allowing for rapid…
232 Street Underpass
While D.H. Charles Engineering, Inc. is based in the United States, we also provide engineering services in many Canadian provinces. We recently had the opportunity to help a customer in British Columbia value-engineer a slide rail excavation shoring system on a large bridge construction project.…
Celebrating DHC’s Women in Engineering
In celebration of Women in Engineering Day, we’ve interviewed Christine Strong and Victoria Nago, two women engineers who are making their mark on the industry.
San Francisco International Airport
To meet demands of a busy airport with active construction interfacing with the public, we prioritized a scaffold design that minimized impact to pedestrian & vehicle traffic flow and we implemented pedestrian overhead protection tunnels to keep people safe from any potential falling objects or debris.