About Us

Orndorf & Faranda, Inc. is a structural engineering and design firm located in the central business district of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, with a branch office in Greenville, Delaware.  We are an award- winning, client-oriented firm that combines extensive in-depth experience of a larger engineering firm with the personalized service of a small firm.

We have experience in new construction, as well as in renovations, retrofit, adaptive reuse and historic rehabilitation. In addition to design services, we also offer engineering feasibility studies, due-diligence surveys, constructability reviews and peer review analyses.  Our projects vary in size, scope, and complexity, and can range in construction value from one million dollars to one hundred million dollars.  Our market sectors include: retail/commercial, education, healthcare, government, industrial, religious, hospitality and housing.  Within these market sectors we find ourselves typically involved in the design and construction of automobile dealerships, condominiums, office buildings, hotels, schools, churches and hospitals. 

Benefits of working with Orndorf & Faranda, Inc.:

• Our principals each have over 25 years of diverse structural engineering design experience.


• We are registered in 28 states and will travel to meet our client’s needs.


• We have a wide-range of experience in designing all building types.


• We have experience in steel, concrete, timber, masonry, as well as sheeting and shoring during construction and foundation under-pinnings. 


• We have experience with seismic-design for earthquake prone areas of the country.


• We have experience with high-wind design, and with FEMA requirements for the design of shore properties built on pilings.

Staff

Awards

Orndorf & Faranda, Inc. has won the following awards:

• 2007 Preservation Alliance, Grand Jury Award for exterior restoration and re-use of the Hyperion Bank, Philadelphia, PA. Architect: Jeffrey M. Laufer, AIA.



• 2005 CMAA Mid-Atlantic Region Project of the Year Award for the new Ocean City High School, Ocean City, NJ. Architect: Garrison Architects



• 2004 AIA Chesapeake Bay Chapter Honor Award for the Benchmark School, Media, PA. Architects: Kirby Mehrhof, Architect and Lawrence D. McEwen Architects.



• 2003 AIA Delaware Colleagues Choice Award for Design Excellence for Mercedes-Benz of West Chester, West Chester, PA. Architect: Dever Architects



• ACI Concrete Award for Zagaras Market, Cambridge Crossing Shopping Center, Mt. Laurel, NJ. Architect: McGillin Architects

Philosophy

• Above all we are responsive to our clients’ needs and serve them in a professional manner.

• Building strong relationships with our clients is an important aspect of our corporate culture as evidence by a high percentage of repeat business.

• On all projects we stress the importance of design excellence with an emphasis on detailed construction documentation.  This results in a low percentage of change orders during construction.

• We strive to exceed technical, financial and scheduling goals on all project deliverables.

• Each project is completed in a timely manner, within its written scope of services and within its budget.

• We attribute our success to the company’s policy of assigning a new project to a dedicated project manager who typically is involved from schematics to construction “punch-list”  and also to the guidance and leadership of the firm’s principals.

• Each project is under the direction of one of our principals who is responsible for final approvals.  This continuity assures our clients that the person in charge knows the project thoroughly and is available to resolve any issues if they arise.