O'Connell & Associates Consulting Engineers, LLC. Civil, structural, and restoration engineering for Florida's coast.
O'Connell & Associates works on condominiums, commercial properties, communities, and public projects across Northwest Florida. Our engineers have built on this coast and know how it behaves.
Straight answers about your building, in language a board can vote on.
Milestone inspections, envelope surveys, reserve studies, and restoration planned to what the building needs, with a three-year Continuing Engineering Services partnership when the project ends.
See Waterproofing & RestorationSealed structural design and peer review from engineers with hands-on construction backgrounds.
3D and finite element analysis for coastal wind zones, residential through high-rise.
Get sealed drawingsEntitlements, stormwater, and utilities engineered for county review.
Walton County development orders, NWFWMD ERPs, FDEP permits. This is routine work for our Civil Engineering practice.
Route our permitsWe carry a project from the first site walk through the final punch list.
One firm carries your project through every phase. It is the same path we ran at One Beach Club Drive, Tides at TOPS'L, and Emerald Towers West.
- STEP 1
Condition survey
A licensed engineer walks the property and documents what is actually failing, and why.
- STEP 2
Design and documents
Detailed specifications and scopes of work a contractor can price and build.
- STEP 3
Permitting and bidding
We run the regulatory stack and solicit, tabulate, and level competitive bids from qualified contractors.
- STEP 4
Contract Administration
On-site Contract Administration and Construction Observations, so what was designed is what gets built and properly paid for.
- ONGOING
Continuing services
A three-year partnership focused on monitoring your building envelope and addressing minor issues before they become costly repairs.
79 projects you can look up, single-family homes through high-rise restoration.
All projects- 79
- Projects in the public record
- 6
- Engineering disciplines in-house
- 8
- Building types served
- 12
- States where the firm is licensed to practice
Why boards keep us around
We own the process and stick to the facts.
We answer the question the board actually asked, we say what we saw on the building, and we put it in writing the same day.
Our principals and engineers all have strong design and construction backgrounds. That background shapes what we recommend. It is why our answer is usually common sense and economical rather than complicated and expensive.
Peak rental seasons, salt air, hurricane deadlines, occupied-building logistics, and reserve funding all shape what a repair on this coast costs. We schedule disruptive work for shoulder seasons and put every finding in language owners can carry into a board vote.
Have a project, a problem, or an RFP?
It goes directly to a licensed engineer, who will tell you what the work requires and what it should cost.