The KSE Story
Structural Engineering & Architectural Services
for Residential Construction
KSE Engineering delivers high-quality, value-added designs on time and on budget, so you can focus on what you do best - building.
Beginnings - KSE Engineering
Jim, Ken and Charles all had worked for the same Philadelphia area Engineering Firm at various times in the late 90's. Charles left to pursue other opportunities as Ken stayed and continued to cultivate and develop professional relationships over the next four years. Jim and Ken both shared the same vision of earning their professional engineer licenses and starting their own engineering firms. Soon after earning his P.E. license, Jim put his dreams into motion and formed a corporation. After many discussions, Jim and Ken found that they were like-minded in their approach to structural engineering and ethical business practices. With both having successfully passed their PE exams, Jim's newly formed corporation and Ken's professional relationships, they took a leap of faith together and formed K&S Engineering.
Their design philosophies, along with a diverse engineering background, joined forces in 2002 to form KSE Engineering.
Growth - KSE Engineering
KSE Engineering hired their first full-time employee in 2005 and currently has more than 20 employees. With high professional standards, KSE's team prides themselves on accurate, high-quality work and a strong commitment to their clients and employees.
KSE is known as a trusted, hands-on company both regionally and nationally and attributes its success to a client base earned solely on word of mouth referrals and the qualified, exceptional staff of professionals.
Services Expansion - The KSE Group Architecture
As an established engineering firm with a client base that spans almost 20 years of trusted relationships and experience, KSE Engineering continually seeks innovative ways to meet our clients' growing needs.
For several years, clients shared with us their difficulty in finding a resource to produce quality construction documents, in a timely manner, that could match the level of service they had come to expect from KSE Engineering. Some clients asked if we would ever consider broadening our professional services to include Architectural Drafting.
In 2016, KSE began pursuing this avenue of forming an Architectural Division. To provide this service, we had to recruit talented and experienced professionals who shared the same ethical standards and quality of work as our founding partners. In 2017, The KSE Group was formed and included a team of qualified professionals that could properly expand the company's offering of services.
With the newly formed company, licensed to provide architectural and drafting services in 17 states and growing, we are thrilled to say that what was once a thought has now turned into a reality and is a thriving and growing expansion of services provided by our firm. The Architectural Division has been able to meet the needs of some of those very clients who helped plant the seed years prior, as well as many new clients.