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Florida Engineering LLC, d/b/a Lightning Engineering

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lightningengineer.comPort Charlotte, Florida, United StatesUpdated

Multi-disciplinary engineering firm offering structural, MEP and outdoor-structure design for residential and commercial projects.

Overview

Lightning Engineering is a veteran-owned, family-owned, multi-disciplinary engineering firm delivering structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and related services for residential, commercial and light-industrial projects. The firm provides structural engineering, MEP engineering, redline services, energy calculations & COMchecks, and outdoor/pool engineering (including pool enclosures, aluminum structures, screen enclosures, wooden decks and patio covers, metal buildings, stairs and handrails). Operating as Florida Engineering LLC, d/b/a Lightning Engineering, and supported by Florida Engineering and Gunderson Engineering, the organization employs 25+ engineers with 125+ years of combined experience to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and meet timelines. It emphasizes engineering-and-design scope only (no inspections, construction or installation), client-focused service, value engineering and efficient project execution across 23 licensed states.

Mission statement

To deliver fast, accurate, and reliable engineering solutions through collaboration and discipline coordination for a wide range of building projects.

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What we offer

Structural Engineering

Service

Expert Structural Engineering Services For Residential, Commercial, And Light-Industrial Projects.

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lightningengineer.com/structural-engineering-services/

Pool Engineering

Service

Expert Engineering Plans for Residential and Commercial Pool Projects.

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lightningengineer.com/pool-engineering-services/

Aluminum Structures

Service

Custom Aluminum Structures Engineering for Outdoor Spaces.

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lightningengineer.com/engineered-aluminum-structures/

Screen Enclosures

Service

Providing tailored engineering for custom screen enclosures to enhance outdoor living spaces.

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lightningengineer.com/custom-screen-enclosures/

Wooden Decks & Patio Covers

Service

Expert Engineering For Custom Wooden Decks And Patio Covers.

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lightningengineer.com/custom-wooden-decks-patio-covers/

Metal Buildings & Structures

Service

Expert Engineering Services for Custom Metal Buildings and Related Structures

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lightningengineer.com/metal-buildings-and-structures/

Stairs & Handrails Engineering

Service

Tailored stair and handrail engineering for diverse building needs.

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lightningengineer.com/stairs-handrails-engineering/

Redline Services

Service

Enhancing project accuracy with detailed drawing reviews and collaborative design support.

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Market segments

Market size by segment

Growth potential (CAGR)

Structural engineering services

28.5 Billion USD2.7% CAGR

Engineering services that produce signed and sealed structural plans, design development, construction administration, and value engineering for residential and commercial buildings.

Products: Structural Engineering, Stairs & Handrails Engineering, Wooden Decks & Patio Covers

Mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering

165.16 Billion USD6.9% CAGR

Design and coordination of HVAC, electrical power and lighting, plumbing systems, pump sizing and energy documentation (including COMcheck) for new construction and renovations.

Products: Structural Engineering, Pool Engineering

Outdoor structures and enclosures engineering

3.51 Billion USD6.5% CAGR

Engineering for outdoor aluminum and wood structures such as pool enclosures, screen rooms, patio covers, carports and related site‑specific enclosure layouts.

Products: Aluminum Structures, Screen Enclosures, Wooden Decks & Patio Covers, Pool Engineering

Metal building engineering

2.8 Billion USD6.5% CAGR

Design, structural analysis and documentation for metal buildings, warehouses, barndominiums, agricultural buildings and related permit-ready deliverables.

Products: Metal Buildings & Structures

BIM and design coordination

2.5 Billion USD11% CAGR

Management and collaboration around BIM data and model coordination to align design intent with construction activities and identify clashes.

Products: Redline Services, Structural Engineering

More information about our offering

Structural Engineering

Structural engineering service offering structural plans and design, foundation design, renovations and additions, and structural repair engineering. It includes redline and peer reviews of drawings and coordination with related disciplines, and covers outdoor structures as part of the project scope for residential, commercial, and light-industrial projects.

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  • Ensure Stable Foundations
    We provide comprehensive foundation design tailored to your specific structural needs, ensuring all builds meet required safety and stability standards.
  • Deliver Detailed Structural Plans
    We create comprehensive structural plans that adhere to all relevant codes and standards, ensuring your project’s success from the ground up.
  • Integrate Building Systems
    We coordinate seamlessly across MEP disciplines, ensuring efficient design that fulfills all engineering standards.
  • Support Building Expansions
    Our experts provide tailored engineering solutions for renovations and expansions, ensuring compliance and enhancement of existing structures.
  • Designs Electrical Systems
    Provides comprehensive electrical plans, ensuring efficient power distribution and optimal lighting across all project types.
  • Implements HVAC Designs
    Provides tailored HVAC solutions that optimize comfort and indoor air quality in all building types.
  • Coordinates Plumbing Systems
    Manages plumbing designs to ensure efficient water delivery, drainage, and compliance with local codes.
  • Design Safe Outdoor Structures
    Our team specializes in planning and executing engineering designs for outdoor elements that meet both aesthetic and functional requirements.
  • Enhance Design Accuracy
    We offer detailed redline reviews to ensure all structural plans align with project intent, improving accuracy and coordination among teams.
  • Strengthen Existing Structures
    Our repair engineering services are designed to enhance the integrity and lifespan of existing structures while complying with modern standards.
  • Ensures Energy Compliance
    Delivers necessary energy calculations and documentation for compliance with energy codes, enhancing sustainability and efficiency.
  • Supports Diverse Project Types
    Offers MEP services tailored for both new constructions and modifications to existing structures.
  • Promotes Energy Efficiency
    Crafts strategies to improve energy efficiency across mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
  • Designs Lighting Systems
    Creates detailed lighting plans that enhance visibility and safety, incorporating energy-efficient solutions.

Pool Engineering

Pool Engineering provides engineered plans and calculations for pools, pool enclosures and outdoor pool structures, including new pools, renovations, pump calculations, total dynamic head (TDH) calculations, and plumbing schematics for residential and commercial projects.

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  • Design New Swimming Pools
    Complete engineering plans that align with your layout and project requirements for new pool installations.
  • Optimize Pump Selection
    Ensure the right pump is selected for your pool's operational needs through precise calculations.
  • Versatile Pool Engineering Services
    Tailored engineering solutions for a variety of project scopes, from residential pools to commercial installations.
  • Enhance Existing Pool Features
    Modify your existing pool structure or add features to meet your evolving needs.
  • Assess Hydraulic Resistance
    Calculate the total dynamic head to determine proper pump functionality for efficient water circulation.
  • Document Pool Systems Layout
    Detailed schematics outlining the arrangement of piping and equipment for efficient pool operation.

Aluminum Structures

Aluminum Structures engineering delivers custom design and structural reviews for aluminum outdoor structures such as screen rooms, pool enclosures, patio covers, carports, and other outdoor builds, tailored to the project layout and site requirements for both residential and commercial projects.

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  • Ensure Structural Integrity
    Ensures that each aluminum structure design is thoroughly reviewed for safety, compliance, and functionality.
  • Design Carports & Specialty Structures
    Provides tailored engineering for aluminum carports designed to meet specific client requirements and site conditions.
  • Build Safe Pool Enclosures
    Provides engineering for secure and compliant pool enclosures, enhancing safety and usability.
  • Support Diverse Applications
    Offers tailored solutions for a wide range of outdoor projects, ensuring they meet the specific requirements of both residential and commercial clients.
  • Create Functional Patio Covers
    Develops engineering solutions for durable and aesthetically pleasing patio covers tailored to the client's needs.
  • Develop Comfortable Screen Rooms
    Creates designs for screen rooms that enhance outdoor living while maintaining comfort and usability.

Screen Enclosures

Screen Enclosures engineering provides custom structural engineering for screen enclosures designed around property and outdoor space. It covers pool enclosures, screen rooms, custom enclosure layouts, and related aluminum structures.

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  • Protect Pool Area
    Ensures safety by keeping debris and pests out while providing a comfortable swim environment.
  • Custom Structural Integrity
    Provides robust designs ensuring safety and durability in custom-built screen enclosures.
  • Enhance Outdoor Aesthetic
    Custom design improves the visual appeal and functionality of outdoor areas.
  • Expand Living Space
    Transform outdoor areas into functional living spaces by providing shelter from elements.
  • Integrate Related Structures
    Seamlessly integrates with other aluminum structures to optimize outdoor spaces.

Wooden Decks & Patio Covers

Wooden Decks & Patio Covers engineering offers structural design for decks and patio covers, coordinating with adjacent outdoor structures and related aluminum structures to ensure safe, code-compliant installations.

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  • Ensures Durable And Compliant Decks
    Our engineering ensures your wooden deck meets all safety regulations while providing a durable, aesthetic outdoor space.
  • Creates Comfortable Outdoor Living Areas
    Our patio cover designs maximize comfort and utility, allowing you to enjoy your outdoor space all year round.
  • Seamlessly Integrates Outdoor Spaces
    We ensure all designs integrate smoothly with existing and planned outdoor structures, enhancing overall functionality and aesthetics.
  • Enhances Outdoor Structural Integrity
    Ensuring all components work together effectively, we enhance the durability and functionality of your outdoor setups.

Metal Buildings & Structures

Metal Building Engineering provides design and structural analysis for metal buildings, warehouses, barndominiums, carports and related structures. This includes custom metal building design, structural support, and comprehensive engineering documentation for varied applications.

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  • Deliver Tailored Designs
    Our engineering services ensure your metal building is designed specifically to suit its intended use, including dimension and structural configuration.
  • Support Industrial Operations
    We provide robust structural engineering solutions for warehouses and industrial facilities, focusing on safety and efficiency.
  • Realize Your Dream Home
    We offer specialized engineering services tailored to creating durable and efficient barndominiums and residential metal structures.
  • Facilitate Project Progress
    Our comprehensive engineering documentation ensures efficient project transitions from design to permitting and construction phases.
  • Enhance Agricultural Properties
    Our designs for carports and agricultural buildings optimize functionality while ensuring compliance with relevant codes.

Stairs & Handrails Engineering

Stairs & Handrails Engineering provides custom engineering for stairs, railings and handrails in residential, commercial and industrial buildings.

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  • Enhances Safety Standards
    Focuses on the structural integrity and safety compliance of handrails to ensure user safety in all building types.
  • Delivers Custom Solutions
    Offers bespoke design solutions for stair systems, ensuring they meet both functional and aesthetic objectives of the building.
  • Provides Customized Designs
    Ensures that stair and handrail designs align with specific architectural requirements and project specifications.
  • Facilitates Design Coordination
    Involves precise engineering processes that coordinate railing installations with existing building features.
  • Ensures Compliance
    Ensures all stair and handrail designs comply with applicable codes and standards based on the unique project specifications.

Redline Services

Redline Services offers structural drawing reviews with marked-up comments to identify coordination issues, along with design-team coordination and ongoing project support.

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  • Enhances Team Collaboration
    By providing essential feedback and facilitating communication, our services help ensure that all team members are aligned on project requirements and design revisions.
  • Identifies Structural Issues
    Our detailed drawing reviews pinpoint potential structural issues, enabling timely corrections to uphold design integrity and safety.
  • Clarifies Required Changes
    The marked-up comments serve as a clear guide for the design team to understand necessary modifications, promoting effective updates to project documents.
  • Facilitates Continuous Improvement
    We offer ongoing support to address queries and changes as they arise, ensuring projects remain on track throughout their duration.

Sources

Methodology and sourcing behind the figures and links shown above.

Structural engineering services

Primary source: Market Research Future (structural engineering services) reports a 2024 market size of USD 28.5B and a 2025–2035 CAGR of 2.7%, so the segment is a roughly USD 28–30B market today with modest low-single-digit growth. Supporting context: outsourcing subsegment reports higher projected CAGR (~5.1%) and ProcurementIQ shows recent price growth ~2.5% in the U.S., indicating limited upside but potential pockets of faster growth (outsourcing, regional infrastructure projects).

Mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering

Search results show multiple market estimates for global MEP services in 2025; sources cluster around USD 160–165 billion with CAGR ~6–7%. I used the AstuteAnalytica figure (US$165.16B in 2025, 6.9% CAGR) as the primary estimate while noting alternative published estimates (MarketMind lower-scope estimate and Precedence/Natlmep higher projection).

Outdoor structures and enclosures engineering

Primary estimate based on Future Market Insights' global outdoor living structures definition and numbers (USD 3.51B in 2026, 6.5% CAGR). Regional reports (U.S. ~USD 0.89B; North America ~USD 1.0B) are consistent with a mid-single‑digit global market in the low billions. Other publishers report larger global totals (USD 27.6B) likely reflecting a broader product scope (outdoor kitchens, sunrooms, larger commercial segments); FMI aligns best with the engineering scope described.

Metal building engineering

Estimation based on global pre-engineered/prefabricated metal buildings market figures in the search results (FutureMarketInsights: ~USD 55.0B in 2026, FMI CAGR 5.9%). The metal-building engineering/design/documentation niche is a small share of total project value—primarily professional services, detailing, BIM, and permit deliverables—so I applied a conservative 5% share of the global PEB market (0.05 * USD 55B ≈ USD 2.75B, rounded to USD 2.8B). Growth potential is set slightly above the overall PEB CAGR (5.9%) to reflect increasing demand for customization, BIM-based services, and digital engineering workflows (estimated CAGR ≈ 6.5%). I also considered alternate prefabricated/steel-building market estimates in the results (larger market baselines and varying CAGRs) when selecting a conservative engineering-service share and modest premium CAGR.

BIM and design coordination

Estimates derived from multiple BIM market reports in the search results. MarketsandMarkets values the overall BIM market at USD 9.03B in 2025 (CAGR 11.3% to 2030). Credence reports BIM software ~USD 9.74B in 2024 (CAGR ~10.8%). Coherent estimates USD 11.49B in 2026 (CAGR 14.1% to 2033). 'BIM and design coordination' is a subsegment (software tools for clash detection, coordination plus related services). Assuming design coordination represents roughly 25–30% of the broader BIM/software market yields an estimated segment size ~USD 2.5B today, with growth in line with overall BIM (rounded to ~11% CAGR).

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