Karagozian & Case

Karagozian & Case (K&C) was founded in 1945, and is recognized nationally and internationally for providing protective design engineering services to protect buildings and other facilities, and their occupants and functionality. K&C provides a highly technical and unique set of skills as engineering consultants. We focus primarily on developing protective designs and devices for extreme load environments such as those associated with blast, shock, and high-velocity impacts. In addition, we provide risk assessments and conduct research and development activities related to blast effects and high-energy impacts. Our purpose is to deliver designs to insure a clients security from risks associated with extreme events, especially malevolent threats such as those related to terrorist attacks that could involve blasts, high-velocity fragments and projectiles, and impacts from vehicles, ships, and airplanes. This includes a complete package of engineering design services, construction drawings and supervision, testing to demonstrate the validity of our designs, and educational seminars to explain the technology behind our work. We have provided protective designs for a wide range of new and existing buildings and of other types of facilities (e.g., sports arenas), bridges and other components of the infrastructure (e.g., dams, locks), and processing and manufacturing facilities (e.g., petrochemical plants). This encompasses protection for structural, mechanical, and electrical systems, including structural components such as steel and reinforced concrete columns and girders; piping and processing equipment; electrical devices; and walls and glazing facades. We have invented a number of unique and novel protective devices and design strategies, and have been instrumental in developing design tools and guides, and in advancing the state-of-the-art through our research and development activities and our blast and impacts testing.