Frank Bennardo is a Board Certified Professional Structural Engineer licensed in 40+ states in the US.  He has utilized his talents to create companies that continue to reshape the engineering and construction industries.

As founder and President of Engineering Express^®, Mr. Bennardo brings unprecedented corporate structure to building component engineering and product evaluations in industries such as glazing design, mechanical equipment, safeguards, canopies & sunrooms, decking, roofing, & solar, and many other building components across America.

In 2005 he patented a unique modular Hurricane Netting System that encapsulates buildings and surrounding components during storms and formed a company that produced the CAT-5 Netting System.  In 2008 he pioneered a unified structure for cloud-based building product certification performance data streamed this information to national government agencies and associations. His pioneering work automating engineering processes has spawned groundbreaking engineering technologies including providing on-demand engineering, digitally assisted product evaluations, engineering ecommerce, digital marketplaces and more for dozens of national clients and growing.

Mr. Bennardo is a leading national glazing consultant, building component structural engineer, forensic expert, and building product evaluation consultant.  Mr. Bennardo has performed inspections and forensic expert witness testimony to thousands of damaged residences affected by storms in Florida, Texas, and the northeast since Hurricane Andrew.  He has also designed and performed glazing consultant management services for high rise structures in major US cities and has evaluated hundreds of building product components.

He continues to manage his companies, speaks at national events, and is active on boards in his fields of expertise.

Office: (954) 354-0660 Ext. 224

Email:  Frank@EngineeringExpress.com

 

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• Graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, B.S.C.E., 1988




• Licensed Florida General Contractor 1994-1998




• Licensed Florida Professional Engineer, 1993, over 40 states in total (see below)




• National Engineering Council NCEES Registered




• Board Certified by the Structural Engineering Certification Board SECB 




• President and Owner of Endymion Blue, LLC, 2008-present




• President and co-owner of CAT-5 Protection, Inc., 2005-2014




• President, Founder, and Owner of Engineering Express® 2003-present




• Florida Department of Transportation, Assistant Broward County Operations Engineer et.al, 1988-2000

Frank Bennardo PE and Governer Chris Christie discuss Superstorm Sandy Damage Recovery Events in Seaside Heights, NJ

Frank Bennardo PE with the International CEO of the Home Depot, Frank Blake discussing damage repairs during Superstorm Sandy

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• Extensive design experience in residential and commercial storefront, curtainwall building envelope, and fenestration applications, specialty structural design, aluminum and light metal structures.




• Substantial current working field knowledge of and diverse experience in residential and commercial new construction, additions, renovations.




• Over 800 Miami Dade County , SBCCI, ICC, Texas TDI,  AAMA, ASTM, and Florida Building Code Product Approval engineering package evaluations, validations, & certifications




• Uniquely experienced in Storm Damage Evaluation and Forensic Engineering providing numerous expert witness testimony & depositions for work in many of the departments of Engineering Express® for storms across the east cost since 2004 and for the Florida Department of Transportation since Hurricane Andrew




• Specialty work and substantial working knowledge in custom computer applications and resources to facilitate next-generation engineering utilizing technologies available including working knowledge of many web programming languages. Most are utilized on our expansive website which is maintained in-house.




• Co-Founder of TaskCloud.com, a cloud-based Quoting – Project Management – Project Tasking system.

International Hurricane Protection Association

– President Elect, 2014
– Board of Directors, 2006-2011
– Board Secretary, 2012 & 2013
– Guest Lecturer for continuing education credits
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Florida Structural Engineers Association, Palm Beaches Chapter Board Director
– Board Chapter Past President 2014
– Board Chapter President , 2013
– Founding Chapter Board of Directors

Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA), member

American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), member

American Society of Civil Engineers, member

Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers (FICE), member

National Society of Professional Engineers, member

American Association for Wind Engineering, member

American Institute of Steel Construction, member

Fenestration Manufacturers Association (FMA), member

American Concrete Institute, member

Florida Engineering Society, member
– Past president 2009-2010, Broward Chapter

Glass Association of North America, member

Florida Atlantic University Engineering Advisory Board

– Board Chair 2010-2012

Tulane University School of Science and Engineering Board Of Advisors
-Board Member, 2008-2012

ASCE Florida Annual Conference Presenter: ‘Product Approvals – How They Are Changing Construction In The Nation” – View online at www.fla-asce.org

Guest & Keynote Speaker for Tulane University Forums & ASCE New Orleans on topics of Wind Design & related hurricane preparation topics.

Guest Speaker/Lecturer at ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), FAPIA (Florida Association of Public Adjusters), SAME (Society of American Military Engieners), AAMA (American Architectural Metals Association, BOAF (Building Officials Association of Florida, Multiple Chapters)

Speaker, National Hurricane Conference, 2016, 2014

Frequent Guest speaker for the Broward County Building Officials and Inspectors Education Association

• 2020 Invited Speaker
• 2016 Dual Presentation Speaker
• 2013 Speaker
• 2013 Engineer of the Year Award
• 2012 Annual Appreciation Award Special Recipient

Speaker, Building Officials Association of Florida Annual Convention, 2019

Appeared on National Television Show Inside Edition, Engineering News Record (ENR), GANA Magazine (Glass Association of North America), Door & Window Magazine, World News, Professional Roofing Magazine, Storm & Security Magazine, Special Report: Hurricane Protection Advancements with Bryan Norcross, FSEA Magazine (Florida Structural Engineers Association), among others.

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Accomplished signer-songwriter-composer, see FrankBennardo.com for more

Member, Krewe of Mid City, NOLA 

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Mr. Bennardo is the President and founder of Endymion Blue, LLC, a company evolving building product design plans since 2008.  That company produced the highly acclaimed ApprovalZOOM.com project, publishing data in real time to dozens of government agencies and trade associations from 2008-2016,  and has grown to become EngineeringPlans.com in 2017.  EngineeringPlans.com is a national registry of building product plans along with many innovative features to interact with them in the growing digital world.

Mr. Bennardo also co-owned CAT-5 Protection, Inc., which developed of the CAT-5 Hurricane Netting System. He has received a patent for his extensive research and development on a netting system that has been successfully deployed over areas such as houses, mobile homes, boats, cars, trailers, signs, lanais, and much more . The CAT-5 Net has been protecting against storms and severe winter weather since 2005 across the globe.

Most recently, he co-founded TaskCloud.com – an online service that powers bidding – project management and project tasking to companies including Engineering Express. Unique site features include an unlimited number of users for a single fee, an innovative ‘file wall’ to allow collaboration of files, full task based freelance bidding in an Uber-style system, intuitive invoicing, collaboration, and more.  The site seeks to increase its network of AE companies for shared talent, all rated for skills and performance.