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When something goes wrong, you need to know why. And how to get back to full function and use. Our truly multidisciplinary team has the expertise to investigate and analyze anything – buildings, infrastructure, industrial machinery and process, equipment, tools, products and more.

We help you resolve claims. By assessing damage quickly and accurately, we work to eliminate business interruption losses. And our pre-loss services help you understand and manage risk.

At Thornton Tomasetti, corporate responsibility is about embracing challenges to make lasting contributions, so we’re always working to improve our process, our reporting and our results. We’re looking at our corporate responsibility approach through an ESG lens, applying Global Reporting Initiative standards to ensure transparent reporting of our progress toward environmental, social and governance targets. And our work is helping accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The COVID-19 pandemic made us all flex new muscles to create a new kind of life and work. With vaccines rolling out, what have we learned? How can we better weather the next crisis? How can we build a more secure, just and resilient world?

The GoGuide safe reentry solution gives your staff and patrons the data – and the confidence – they need to safely attend and enjoy large-venue events and return to work environments while complying with applicable social-distancing and PPE requirements. And GoGuide provides the data you need to safeguard customers, establish duty of care, limit liability, and conduct analyses to determine and validate increased occupancy limits.

With performance-based fire engineering (PBFE), we can answer questions that matter to building owners and operators: Can everyone get out the building safely? Is the structure safe to re-occupy after a fire? Can we reduce or eliminate fireproofing where its impact is minimal? And what are the trade-offs if we use a different design to achieve the same fire-protection goal?

In the spring of 2020, many of our people asked, “How can I help?” and began looking for ways to apply scientific and engineering principles to meet the challenges of the pandemic.

T2D2 is a self-learning software platform that detects and classifies visible damage to various types of structures and materials. T2D2 uses the latest developments in artificial intelligence – specifically, deep learning for computer vision – to detect and localize damage by analyzing inspection images.