Joel Burgess, PE
Vice President / Senior Consulting Engineer - Principal
Joel Burgess, PE is a Vice President, Senior Consulting Engineer and a Principal for the SSI Team. He manages the flatwork evaluation team along with other services. Joel has over 25 years of experience in structural design in the commercial, heavy industrial, pulp and paper, and chemicals/plastics industries. Prior to joining SSI, Joel served as the Senior Engineer for a leading steel fiber manufacturer and Project Engineer for Fluor Daniel and Jacobs Engineering located in Greenville, SC.
Joel has extensive experience in the engineering development of stand-alone and web-based computer-generated slab design programs and has provided engineering support for multi-faceted slab designs and concrete technology in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Today, Joel specializes in engineering and technical support to clients and owners through concrete mixture analysis, pre-construction meetings, flatwork evaluations, and field construction for concrete placement, repair and polishing / enhancement services.
Joel is a graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil / Structural Engineering in 1991. He has served as committee member to ACI 360 and 302, ACI 544 and Steel Deck Institute (SDI).