Bison Engineering, Inc. – Experts in Failure Analysis and Forensic Analysis

Bison Engineering specializes in forensic engineering and failure analysis services to the gas, electrical, petrochemical, legal, and insurance industries, as well as to the private sector. Bison’s licensed professional forensic engineers and forensic investigators, Certified Fire Investigators, and consultants are committed to delivering the highest quality, technically accurate, and scientifically supportable forensic engineering analyses possible to clients. The company’s state-of-the-art testing and monitoring equipment, computer graphics, and 3-D animations augment its engineering and technical services, offering unlimited testing capabilities to its clients.

Time after time, in thousands of forensic investigations, Bison's experts' high standards, integrity, specialized expertise, and demonstrable scientific findings have provided satisfied clients with the necessary tools for successful resolution of complex issues.

What Advantage Allows Bison to Achieve These Results in Failure Analysis?

Failure analysis services, such as carbon monoxide (CO) investigations, fire investigations, accident reconstructions, mechanical failure investigations, and accurate scientific failure analysis for fuel gas incidents, such as natural gas or LP gas explosions, and fuel fires in plants, pipelines, and residential areas, as well as electrical fires, electrical failures, and electrocutions, can make the difference between success or failure in the courtroom. Failure analysis capabilities – combined with the ability to graphically and visually demonstrate investigative results – allow integrity-driven expert witnesses to deliver incontrovertible expert testimony.

High Standards and Reliable Data Mean Expert Testimony

All clients depend on the expert witness of Bison's biomechanical, mechanical, electrical, civil, and metallurgical engineers and Certified Fire Investigators, secure in the knowledge the expert testimony presented is soundly based on professional forensic engineering capabilities and specialized testing of new incidents. These findings are further substantiated by research data of natural gas and propane explosions and gas fires accumulated over many years of forensic investigations. The company, which responds to incident needs 24 hours a day, has investigated over 500 fuel gas incidents, including fires, explosions, and toxic releases. The company's expert forensic engineering team are some of the best investigators in Houston.

State-of-the-Art Failure Analysis Investigations

Incident investigations by a forensic engineer may involve collecting relevant data by onsite investigation and testing plus offsite reconstruction and state-of-the-art laboratory testing, as often required, of fuel gas incidents, vehicle accidents, electrocutions, fires and explosions. As described under Specialized Testing, the company has developed several testing/monitoring systems to perfect reliability. For example, investigations of carbon monoxide poisoning and accidents are facilitated by the proprietary portable CO-DAQ (Carbon Monoxide Data Acquisition) system Bison developed to provide real-time, multi-location acquisition, sampling, and comparison of Carbon Monoxide concentrations. An accurate history response is obtained through the use of sensors strategically placed to record variables in temperature (flue and ambient inside and out) and wind velocity to provide combustion gas production trends.

In all incidents, accidents, and testing, the collected data is assiduously analyzed by discipline-specific forensic engineers, then assessed from a rigorous multidisciplinary perspective, and even the most complex scientific issues are presented to clients in a clear, easy-to-comprehend format.

The Courtroom Difference in Failure Analysis

If and when it becomes necessary to present failure analysis facts in court, Bison clients are assured that the company’s cutting-edge computer graphics, 3-D animations, and multimedia presentations accompanying the engineers’ expert testimony will demonstrate the complicated scientific issues involved so vividly and clearly that any jury can understand the facts with ease.

In short, Bison’s clients argue their cases with confidence, secure in the knowledge that the claims its engineers make are based on unbiased scientific data.

Bison . . . Rigorous. Responsive. Respected.