Greg McCool

With over twelve years of experience and projects located nationwide, Greg has honed a keen sense of what it takes to make a building come together, especially for complex existing structures and challenging jurisdictions.  He excels at understanding the work of other disciplines and meshing the structural design with theirs, sidestepping coordination “land mines” that can stop the design process in its tracks.  Greg is an admitted detail junkie and enjoys rolling up his sleeves to work through a perplexing condition with an architect or mechanical engineer.  He has a knack for discovering and working through existing building issues others tend to miss, helping owners in the healthcare, education, recreational, and religious markets see their diamond in the rough.  Having worked for an earthquake engineering firm on the West Coast prior to ERA, Greg learned the value of “sharpening the pencil” to give you the most efficient design possible.  Greg is a leading voice in the Twin Cities structural engineering community as a past president of the Minnesota Structural Engineers Association (MNSEA).