Brandon Rippy on a reinforced concrete deck, hard hat and high-visibility vest
Professional Engineer · Texas & Georgia

Brandon Rippy, PE

West Regional Engineer, United Forming · Austin, Texas

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Licensed professional engineer with 13+ years in complex concrete formwork, shoring, and reshoring. Leads technical delivery for multi-story hospitals, universities, hotels, and high-rise residential and office work, mostly in Texas since 2015, with projects in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. Builds the engineering bench, writes the training, and owns the high-risk temporary-works calls.

Experience

United Forming, Inc.

West Regional Engineer · June 2021 – Present · Austin
  • Technical lead for shoring and reshoring on complex multi-story hospitals, universities, hotels, and high-rise residential and office towers.
  • Manages project draftsmen and assistant formwork engineers. Reviews shop drawings before they go to partners and field crews, and coordinates, reviews, and stamps shoring drawings prepared under his direct supervision by other formwork engineers.
  • Designs high-risk temporary works beyond standard practice: post-tension cable repair reshoring, dance-floor platforms over existing roofs, column reconstruction support, and large hole covers under live construction loads.
  • Created and delivers the company training series, starting with Understanding Reshoring Systems, plus standardized details used by engineering, project management, and the field.
  • Performs job-site shoring inspections, including pre-pour checks and targeted review of high-risk conditions before concrete is placed.
  • Pre-bid reshoring analysis for estimating and business development.

Earlier roles, same firm

Senior Formwork Engineer, 2018–2021 · Formwork Engineer, 2016–2018 · Assistant Formwork Engineer, 2013–2016
  • Senior Formwork Engineer: Austin office, planning and oversight, including Hall Arts Hotel, Windrose Tower, Hyatt Regency Frisco, Oracle Waterfront, Cook Children’s parking garage, Travis County Courthouse, and the UT Energy Engineering Building.
  • Formwork Engineer: deck and reshoring design, site inspections, and RFIs. Included Green Water Block 23 and Block 188, the UT Engineering Education and Research Center, Terraces at Douglas Center, and Houston HSPVA.
  • Assistant Formwork Engineer: from component design and drawing redlines to full multi-level systems, including the Westin Hotel Austin, Golisano Children’s Hospital, and Emory J-Wing Parking Garage, across Texas, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.

Credentials

B.S. Civil Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009

PE, Texas
Active · issued June 8, 2022

PE, Georgia
Active · issued June 9, 2021

ACI University
Anchorage Design certificate, 2024. Formwork, shoring, and multistory concrete courses, 2023–2025.

Tools
AutoCAD, Bluebeam, DSNWinbeam, Python, pyCBA

Special projects

Saint Austin Student Housing

Shoring and reshoring

Multi-level shoring and reshoring for the student housing structure.

Multi-level shoring and reshoring at Saint Austin Student Housing

Shoring and reshoring system.

UT Engineering Discovery Building

Reshoring before post-tension detensioning

A stair landing needed a partial demolition. Post-tensioned cables ran through it and required detensioning before demolition. Designed reshoring to support the girder that those cables were providing capacity for, and inspected it on site before detensioning.

Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

Reshoring for column demolition and repair

Reshoring to support the roof and concrete floor during column demolition and repair.

Column demolition while shoring supports the elevated slab and steel roof

Column demolition while supporting the elevated slab and steel roof.

Autograph Collection Hotel

Shoring and reshoring

Designed and stamped shoring and reshoring systems, including a 20 by 20 foot hole cover on level 14.

Brandon Rippy on a shored deck at the Autograph Collection Hotel

Taken during a routine shoring and reshoring inspection.

Autograph Collection Hotel under construction in downtown Austin

The building during construction, Austin.

Circuit of the Americas, Turn 1

Shoring and reshoring

Shoring and reshoring for the Turn 1 structure. Both are visible: shoring on the exterior, reshoring still in place under the deck.

Brandon Rippy under shoring at the Circuit of the Americas Turn 1 project

Reshore system.

Circuit of the Americas Turn 1 structure under construction, with shoring around inclined columns

Shoring and reshoring during construction.

Hall Arts Hotel, Dallas

Shoring and reshoring

Multi-story hotel shoring and reshoring.

Hall Arts Hotel under construction in Dallas, with shoring frames on the upper floors

Upper floors during construction.

Hall Arts Hotel from the street, glass facade installed and upper floors still in concrete

From the street, Dallas.

Ascension Seton Women’s Hospital

Austin

Shoring and reshoring during construction of the hospital.

Ascension Seton Women’s Hospital under construction, with shoring and reshoring visible on the upper floors

Shoring and reshoring on the upper floors.

Brandon Rippy on the deck during construction of Ascension Seton Women’s Hospital

Inspection before concrete placement of the roof.

Round Rock Public Library

Team lead · garage plus library

Four-level parking garage and library. Directed design method, reviewed calculations, and supervised field inspections for a multi-person engineering team.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital parking deck

Demolition and new construction

Same team-lead role on a hospital deck that combined demolition with new structure. The risk sat in the sequence, not only in the new deck design.

Green Water Block 23 and Block 188, Austin

31-story and 35-story residential towers

Earlier-career deck and reshoring work. Block 23 was the largest and most complex project at the time.

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