Company

As Structural Engineers and Builders, we team up with world-renowned Architects, Developers, & GCs to engineer, fabricate and erect carefully detailed building and bridge structures in timber, steel, glass, concrete and other materials.

As both structural engineers and builders, we enjoy challenges which break new ground, and our extensive experience with wood has won numerous awards for innovation in timber engineering and construction.

For over 30+ years, StructureCraft has been pushing boundaries in timber structural engineering and construction.

In 1989 Gerald Epp leaves long span expert Geiger Engineers to join friend Paul Fast in creating what would become Fast+Epp Structural Engineers. They continue to service a broad variety of clientele, including budget-minded developers. Brought up a Mennonite with instilled frugality, this experience served to solidify in GE a disposition towards economy and efficiency which would drive future endeavours. Although still young, the dream was to apply technical know-how with practicality and common sense to create uncommon structures.

How StructureCraft was born.
In 1998, the first opportunity comes with the Vancouver Aquarium when architect Bing Thom with Gerald faces the reality that they can find no-one willing to build a unique timber-stainless steel hybrid structure they have designed, at least within budget. Gerald takes the next step and forms StructureCraft, thus becoming a builder as well as an engineer. A project in northern Washington, the Ferndale Middle School roof, with a space truss made of wood peeler cores, follows.