Mr. Burns is the founding principal of BSC Forensic Services, LLC, and he practices as a structural forensic investigator, holding professional engineer licensure in 25 states and counting. He has a unique background including education, business development, technology development, engineering design, forensic engineering, and teaching. Since 2011, BSC has grown to a nationally-recognized firm under Mr. Burns’ leadership with experts licensed throughout the United States in fields such as: structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, mold, industrial hygiene, drones, as well as fire and explosion. Mr. Burns is the author of two patents pending pertaining to forensic investigations, and he has testified in multiple trials, depositions, arbitrations, and/or mediations.
Mr. Burns’ forensic experience includes structural design, failure analysis, construction defect, premises safety/ injury (including trips and slips), water losses, wind assessments, hail assessments, flooring assessments, foundation performance evaluations (including movement attributed to plumbing leaks), building envelopes, air and water penetration (spray testing), and much more. Mr. Burns and BSC staff under his responsible charge perform inspections on commercial, residential, multi-family, industrial, and government facilities as well as automobile, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems routinely.
His experience has also included work as a structural engineer on nationwide projects, as a project manager for a civil engineering firm in Houston and Dallas, Texas, and as an adjunct instructor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Houston. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Arkansas and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and he is a past-president of Tau Beta Pi, AR-Alpha.