World-Renowned High-Rise Engineers

For over 100 years, WSP has helped shape city skylines worldwide. We're experts in designing tall buildings, leading the way in building higher and slimmer to make the best use of space in urban environments. WSP Building Structures is where high expectations meet high standards.

We are excited to be working on many high-rise projects with top developers and architects globally.

Our technical expertise enables architects to bring their creative visions to life while helping owners achieve diverse goals around leasability and building performance. The buildings we engineer stand out not just because of their height, but also through their ongoing benefits to local economies, communities and the environment.

Tall building awards

159

Structural engineers

289

Buildings over 492 Feet

643

Tall & Supertall

Our designs for tall, slim towers help developers maximize limited urban real estate, transforming small sites into highly desirable buildings with stunning views and high market value. These projects spark urban renewal, creating vibrant spaces where people love to live, work and play, putting people back at the heart of cities.

Our portfolio includes globally recognized landmarks such as One World Trade Center in New York, Century Plaza in Los Angeles, The Shard in London, the world’s tallest twin towers Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and Melbourne’s Premier Tower.

Our team is also helping clients and design teams deliver ground-breaking high rises all over the U.S., positively impacting communities as we go.

Crossroads Hollywood, Los Angeles

Through multiple high-rise and low-rise structures, Crossroads Hollywood brings vibrant, transit-oriented mixed-use space to the Hollywood area.

What Makes us Different

Our team of world class professionals in tall buildings are thought leaders, creative designers and collaborative partners for our clients’ most challenging projects. Further, our leaders are directly involved from the earliest stages of design and draw on vast technical experience across all major structural systems and materials.

We offer a diverse array of services as part of an integrated engineering team with global reach. Our systems approach to design yields the most effective solutions for our clients by considering multiple dimensions of every key challenge on our projects. WSP Building Structures also invests in proprietary software and digital design tools engineered to facilitate decision making and collaborative design of tall buildings.

The Spiral, New York

Structural design at The Spiral anticipates changes in use and live loads over time.

Future Ready® Structures

Future Ready® structures consider the entire lifecycle of a building and meet the challenges of a changing world. Our framework, developed to help our clients cope with an uncertain future, is a key element of our process, and considers project design options through the lenses of sustainability, resilience, reusability and adaptability.

This framework can include decarbonization, influenced by our own commitment to the SE2050 initiative, that encourages use of reduced-carbon steel and concrete systems.

Our Expertise

Our design services

New Construction
Adaptive Reuse / Renovation
Overbuild
Seismic
Wind
Performance Based Design

Blast
Historic Preservation
Tekla Detailing
Peer Reviews
Code Consulting
Shoring

Our team's accreditations

Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Post Tensioning Institute (PTI)

Standards and regulations we can navigate on behalf of clients

Milestone structural inspections (FL, NY)

Meet our experts

David Odeh

Director of Building Structures, U.S.

United States

Jeffrey Smilow

SVP, Building Structures, Northeast Region

United States

Jeffrey Smilow, executive vice president and managing director of U.S. property and building structures, is responsible for all structural engineering operations in the region.