DOP Properties

The Problem

A partial structural collapse ten months after a hail-and-wind event invites the easy defense: rot, age, wear-and-tear. Proving the storm started the failure chain required physical evidence, not narrative.

What TCE Did

• Documented the collapsed girder truss member-by-member against its intact twin — clean cross-grain tension fractures, no decay, no water-staining history
• Built the causation chain: hail-fractured cap sheets, wind-breached flashing, water-saturated timber, dead-load increase, collapse
• Anchored the pre-loss baseline with a 20-year historical aerial record and three wind models