we partner with architects and developers to deliver ambitious, sustainable, and enduring buildings through design-driven engineering.

We offer full structural, facades, and mep/fp services as a wbe-certified, multi-disciplinary engineering firm

 
 
 
 

Selected Current Work

 
 
 
 

Memphis Brooks museum of art

Hatfield Group is proud to be collaborating with Herzog & de Meuron and archimania on the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, a new home for the city’s oldest and largest art museum that will anchor a reanimated Mississippi Riverfront.

 
 

Athletics training facility, university of nebraska

Hatfield Group is working with Populous and BVH Architecture on a 350,000 SF athletics training center to house world-class facilities for strength training, conditioning, and athletic medicine for UNL’s Big Ten football program.

 
 

halo tower, newark, nj

Hatfield Group is working as facade engineers with INOA Architecture and Acier Holdings on Halo Tower, a three-tower project that includes Newark’s tallest. Facade installation begun in Summer 2023.

 
 

77 Commercial, brooklyn, ny

Hatfield Group is working with Cetra Ruddy and Ray Builders as facade consultants on 77 Commercial, a two-tower Zone Green-certified development that brings 720 new units to the Greenpoint waterfront.

 
 

Chengdu Museum of Natural History

Hatfield Group is collaborating with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects on a landmark museum and cultural hub for Chengdu, one of China‘s fastest-growing cities.

 
 
 
 
 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Hatfield Group has close to 100 completed or current projects in New York City and throughout the United States.

 
 
 
 
 
 

About Hatfield Group

Hatfield Group is a New York-based, WBE-certified structural, facades, and MEP/FP engineering firm. We think and work like architects to engineer distinctive buildings. We partner with our clients from concept through delivery, treating inventive engineering as an integral part of design. Hatfield Group was founded by Erleen Hatfield, previously partner at Buro Happold, in 2018.

Our experience and services include:

  • Sports/ Public Assembly—stadiums, arenas, convention centers, aviation

  • Cultural / Institutional—museums, higher education, art installations

  • Commercial / Residential—office, multi-family residential, hospitality, retail

  • Tekla and BIM Consulting—mill order models, fabrication models, process improvements

  • Peer Reviews—structural review, facades review, and MEP/FP review services include collaboration with many of the most renowned architects on some of the world’s most challenging structures. 

 
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Where other engineers see risks, we see opportunities to innovate. We treat engineering and design holistically, working with architects as co-creators to develop inventive structural and facade solutions that open new spatial possibilities and advance the design intent. We offer a full range of structural facade, and MEP/FP services for projects including stadiums and arenas, museums, academic buildings, mixed-use towers, and commercial developments.

 
 

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

We have extensive experience in steel structures, including long-spans, connection design and fabrication modeling.  In addition, we have expertise in concrete and timber design, including towers and complex structures. We specialize in the use of technology to optimize design and processes, including it in our approach from design through construction.

 

FACADE ENGINEERING

Our facades team make great envelope designs come to life. Our services range from concept design, design development, construction documents, bidding, observation of manufacturing and field visits.  We oversee facade testing, as mockups or in-situ.  We can help you choose the best-fit solution for your project.

MEP/FP ENGINEERING

Our MEP/FP studio is highly experienced in designing and delivering building services for a range project types, including large-scale commercial and residential developments, school and university facilities, cultural buildings, and data centers. We use methods like optioneering and technology like virtual reality mock-ups to deliver sustainable, efficient, and high-performing systems.

PEER REVIEWS

We offer peer reviews for structural integrity, constructability and for the identification of potential cost savings.  Clients for these services include authorities having jurisdiction, owners and architects. We are well positioned to review designs for code compliance as well as for potential cost and schedule savings.

Special Features

 
 
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HISTORY CHANNEL - PROJECT IMPOSSIBLE:
Super Structures

SEASON 1 • EPISODE 1 • 42 min • TV-PG • Premiered 05/24/2017

Throughout history, mankind has built amazing structures, engineered to overcome unique challenges. Now, a new class of super structures are taking on the impossible: the largest moveable building in history, a super-tall skyscraper built to withstand killer earthquakes, a next-generation sports stadium inspired by an ancient Roman temple, and a bridge being raised while it stays open to traffic. This is Project Impossible: Super Structures.

 
 
 

BUILDING GIANTS - SCIENCE CHANNEL:
WORLD'S GREATEST STADIUM

SEASON 1 • EPISODE 1 • 42 min • TV-PG • Premiered 01/04/2018

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the world's most advanced stadium and features the most complex retractable roof ever built. As the team races to finish the $1.5 billion stadium for the NFL season, it faces deadly winds and unique engineering challenges.