Burlingham Engineering & Project Management
Serving all of the Space Coast, the Treasure Coast,
and select clients in Greater Florida and the Caribbean

640 East New Haven Avenue # 434
Melbourne, FL 32902
321.723.7285 (ph)
321.574.3821 (fax)


About our Firm

Firm President: Sean C. Burlingham, P.E.
Florida Special Inspector No 2000
- Professional Engineering
- Project Management
- Forensic Engineering
- Litigation Support & Expert Witness
- Innovative Solutions

The mark of a capable and distinguished Engineering Firm is its ability to provide designs for challenging projects. In the case of Structural Engineering, challenging design work means tall and / or complicated structures.

Developers and Owners turn to us when they need a competent Structural Engineer with a proven history of successful large structural projects. Our major clients are repeat customers for whom we have worked for over 23 years and counting.

We have provided the Structural Design and Inspection for many of the largest and most complicated structures that have been built in Brevard County.

After working as a Structural Engineer for various government and private employers since 1989, our President Sean Burlingham founded Burlingham & Associates in 1999.

Our Firm enjoyed an immediate response from many prominent commercial developers such as Towne Realty, and from the Brevard County School Board.

We are very grateful to our Clients, who keep giving us the opportunity to demonstrate our ability to provide first class Structural Design and Inspection Services for a broad variety of project types. To our esteemed clients: Thank You !!! Without you, we are nothing.

Our major areas of practice are listed below. Most items are also links (underlined) that will take you to separate page that details our experiences.


read about us in Concrete Homes Magazine here


Major Areas of Practice

Multistory Buildings
(Resort Hotels, Condominiums, Office Towers, Hospitals)

School Buildings

Commercial Buildings

Structural Repairs of Concrete Buildings

Special / Exotic Structures

Government and Military Projects

Special Inspection Services
(with and without Structural Design)

Public Hurricane Shelter Certification

Bleacher Inspection & Certification

Financial Studies

Condominium Reserve Studies

Construction Contract Administration

Forensic Engineering

Expert Witness Testimony


Current / Active Projects

Crane Creek Medical Center
(Downtown Melbourne)
-under construction-


Crescent Beach Club Condominiums
Structural Repair Project
(Cocoa Beach)
-under construction-


Ron Jon Resort at Cape Caribe
(Cape Canaveral)
-in design phase-
The Ron Jon Resort website is here


Harbor City Views Mixed-Use Project
(Downtown Melbourne)
-in design phase-


Structural Bridge Repairs for Crowne Plaza
Hotel pedestrian bridge over Highway A1A
(Indialantic)

Bleacher Certifications for Monroe County
(Florida Keys)

Bayside High School Auditorium
(Palm Bay)
-under construction-



Hurricane Report Card

I have lost count of how many multistory building projects for which we provided the Structural Design and the Inspection of the structural construction.

I did a quick tally of those in Brevard County that we have done - that I can remember at the time of this writing - which were also constructed when the unusually active 2004 hurricane season bore down on us: Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne, and also the 2005 Hurricane Wilma.

Number of Multistory Buildings in Brevard County that we designed, and that felt the winds of the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes:

  • 35 Two-Story Buildings
  • 9 Three-Story Buildings
  • 2 Four-Story Buildings
  • 39 Five-Story Buildings
  • 3 Seven-Story Buildings
  • 3 Eight-Story Buildings
  • 2 Nine-Story Buildings
  • 4 Ten-Story Buildings
  • 3 Twelve-Story Buildings
  • 1 Thirteen-Story Building

Not one of these buildings experienced any structural damages of any kind.

In Florida, the biggest technical design problem for a Structural Engineer is to make an economical structure that is resistant to powerful wind forces. This is our specialty.


Experience with these Types of Structures:

  • Steel Reinforced Concrete
  • Post-Tensioned Concrete
  • Pre-stressed Concrete
  • Shallow and Deep Foundation
  • Driven and cast-in place piles
  • Retaining walls - some very tall (35') walls
  • Structural Masonry
  • Precast Tilt-Wall Construction
  • Structural Steel Framing
  • Lightgage Steel
  • Aluminum Structures
  • Timber Structures and Glulam Timber
  • Marine Structures, seawalls, docks, piers
  • Structural Composites
  • Fiberglass rod reinforced concrete
  • Cable-stayed structures
  • Minor bridge structures
  • Prefabricated and modular buildings

on the Lighter Side of the Construction Life

Crane Creek Medical Center - Under Construction

Harbor Point Condominiums - Titusville

Crescent Beach Club Condominums - Structural Retrofit and Repairs

Ocean Pines Condominums - Structural Retrofit, Repairs, & Waterproofing

CVS Pharmacy Distribution Warehouse - Vero Beach

Space Mirror: the Memorial to Fallen U.S. Astronauts - NASA Visitor Center

Ron Jon Resort and the surrounding Condominiums - Port Canaveral and NASA shown beyond

Structural Repairs of Concrete Balconies

Whitley Bay Condominiums, Building 1 - Cocoa

Helicopter Pad - Cape Canaveral Hospital

Polk County Middle School

Ascention Catholic Church

Harbor City Views - being designed for Downtown Melbourne


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