Since its founding in 1976, Avelar has established itself as a premier architectural engineering firm. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Avelar boasts a team of licensed architects, structural engineers, and general contractors with unparalleled expertise in comprehensive forensic investigations, expert witness testimony, litigation support, architectural and engineering design, and reconstruction management.
Avelar is recognized as a leading construction defect expert firm in the Western United States with extensive knowledge in various areas including premature building failure, standard of care issues, ADA compliance, curtain wall and glazing, and roofing and waterproofing expertise. The firm is dedicated to providing high-quality services to a range of residential, multi-family, commercial, and industrial clients.
From investigation and testing to designing and preparing construction documents, Avelar is committed to ensuring that all remedial and new construction projects are executed with excellence.
Over the years, Avelar has served clients throughout the United States, demonstrating its unwavering commitment to delivering superior architectural engineering services.
AVELAR has developed an expertise in building correction as related to construction defects, water intrusion and non-code compliant construction. Due to the magnitude of these defects and complexity of issues, particularly within organized…
Specializing in reconstruction design work, AVELAR has the architectural expertise and field experience to ensure both cost-effective and time-proven repairs to defective building assemblies. The firm has in-depth experience in budgeting…
AVELAR offers a variety of in-house Architectural & Structural Engineering consulting services including peer review, review of existing structures for code compliance and building conditions assessments…
AVELAR offers a variety of in-house architectural design services including reviewing, administering and…
AVELAR has the in-house staff and other resources to provide building performance testing services to support building…
The AVELAR team has the comprehensive background, training and experience required to effectively investigate building…
AVELAR provides stand-alone structural engineering services as well as integrated support of broad project teams.
AVELAR has expertise in managing and expediting reconstruction projects by providing a full range of services tailored to meet…
Evaluating appropriate construction costs for all types of buildings is a critical component of forensic investigations…
It is vital to consult with building code experts who understand the complicated process of determining the codes that were in…
With backgrounds as architects, general contractors, cost estimators and code specialists — combined with extensive…
Drone and Matterport services providing 3D immersive and interactive capture of current conditions…
Aug 21, 2026
That’s a wrap on AVELAR‘s 2026 Summer Interns. We sent Abigail Inouye, Kellen Bach, and Miako Pizzorno off the only
Aug 11, 2026
We’re proud to share that Joseph Garcia and Gary Garcia, both Principal Architects at AVELAR,
