Thornton Tomasetti Key Facts
Project Director Chuck Van Winckle reviews tornado damage at the Lambert-St. Louis Airport.
• We are the structural designer for the world’s tallest building, the 1,000-m+ Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia, and for six of the world’s 10 tallest buildings completed or under construction.
• Our stadiums and arenas seat nearly 1 million people.
• We conduct emergency evaluation of structural failures worldwide to determine safety and remediation, and to accelerate settlement of insurance claims.
• We are software-neutral: We work in any modeling program and write custom translators. We prefer to make the model the final deliverable.
• Our firm comprises six integrated practices: Building Structure, Building Performance, Building Skin, Property Loss Consulting, Construction Support Services and Building Sustainability.
• One third of our design professionals are LEED accredited.
• We enjoy stable, long-term leadership: Our managing principals have an average tenure of 28 years with the firm.
• Our firm is 100 percent employee owned, with no individual holding more than 8 percent of shares.
• We are native speakers of more than 40 languages, from Arabic and Azerbaijani to Ukrainian and Vietnamese, and represent more than 35 nationalities.
• Charlie Thornton is the founder of the ACE Mentor Program, which has helped more than 60,000 high school students gain hands-on knowledge about careers in architecture, construction and engineering.
• Since 2004, charitable donations by Thornton Tomasetti and its employees have totaled more than $1.4 million.











