About Us

Since receiving his B.Sc. degree with honor from the University of Alexandria in 1983, Mr. Attaalla has been working in the field of structural engineering in different capacities. He started his career teaching and conducting research in steel structures. Meanwhile, he was working in design and details of major projects in Egypt and Middle East. Mr. Attaalla has designed several mid to high rise reinforced concrete buildings as well as steel industrial structures including grain silos, large scale factories, water tanks, steel bridges, schools, etc.

During his graduate studies and after few years of receiving his PhD degree from the University of Southern California (USC), he worked in the field of Finite Element Analysis and Modeling with extensive application in the aerospace and automobile industry during his work at the Structural Research and Analysis corporation (SRAC), the developer of COSMOS/M finite element packages (currently SolidWorks Corp). After few months of joining Peter Erdelyi & Associates, Inc., he has been selected to be the vice president of the company.

Over the past 20 years with hands-on attitude, Mr. Attaalla has developed the concepts and designed numerous projects in California including many multi-story wood structures on one or two levels of subterranean garages, commercial buildings, steel structures, schools and medical office buildings. Mr. Attaalla is specialized in shoring design and seismic analysis and retrofit of existing structures. He has seismically upgraded several URM, Reinforced Concrete, and soft-story buildings in the city of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, as well as the surrounding cities. He provided peer review for major projects in the city of Culver City such as Fox Hills Mall and Symantec Headquarter. Mr. Attaalla has published several journal and conference papers and served as a peer reviewer for the ACI Structural Journal. He also served in the California Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and geologist as a field expert. Mr. Attaalla is affiliated to several engineering societies.

We believe that structural engineering is a calculated balance between safety and economy while providing unique solutions to satisfy the aesthetic demand and architectural vision. Over the years of working in the structural engineering field, we learned and progressively developed a simple technique to collaborate with architects, contractors, and building owners in providing the proper structural system. We value the time and client relation as major factors in development of any project.