Where Form Meets Function: Scaffold Design
July 23, 2026
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 long. Some could say that I am a dedicated employee…
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...
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...
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...
St. Ignatius Church Restoration
One of the unknown perks of working for DHC in the niche world of construction engineering is getting the chance to work on some of the most iconic and historic structures throughout the country. One such opportunity came up during the restoration of the façade...
Tomochichi Federal Building – Savannah, GA
With a lineage that forges a path from the creation of our Union through some of the most significant events in our county’s heritage, Savannah, GA, has no shortage of historic and awe-inspiring buildings. This is why D.H. Charles Engineering was honored to work on...
Gordie Howe International Bridge
As our northern neighbor, it should come as no surprise that Canada is one of the top trading partners with the United States. Over $664 BN of trade was conducted between Canada and the US in 2021, and nearly a quarter is moved on the...
The EPIC Phase II
DHC had worked with MDM on a 20’ cantilever design through Covid. There was a little back and forth, but we came up with a clean design that worked structurally and was feasible for that particular job. Fast forward a few weeks and we get...
Big Creek Bridge Restoration
Big Creek Bridge is an open spandrel concrete arch bridge on California’s coast in Monterey County. The bridge was built with funding from the New Deal in the 1930’s, ultimately opening in 1938. Measuring 589 feet long and 24 feet wide, the bridge spans 65...
Engineering Solutions – Enclosed Scaffold on High Profile Bridges
Enclosed scaffold systems on bridges can expose some of the most complex erection and engineering challenges to face the scaffold industry today. Extreme heights, elaborate bridge profiles, severe wind speeds and other complications regularly drive scaffold contractors and engineers to develop state-of-the-art solutions. The following...