When someone is injured on a property, the physical condition and design of that property becomes central to the legal dispute. Determining whether a property owner, developer, manager, or designer met their duty of care requires more than a visual inspection — it requires an expert with the engineering background to analyze surface conditions, drainage design, lighting adequacy, traffic control installations, and applicable safety codes and standards.
Ireland Consulting provides thorough, well-documented analysis of premises conditions for attorneys handling slip, trip, and fall cases, parking lot accidents, pedestrian injury claims, and related premises liability matters. Our analysis goes beyond the obvious — we examine the engineering standards and maintenance obligations that governed the property and identify exactly where those obligations were met and where they were not.
Our premises safety opinions are grounded in recognized engineering standards including ADA requirements, ASTM surface friction standards, ITE parking guidelines, IES lighting standards, and MUTCD traffic control requirements.
Premises and pedestrian safety consulting including slips, trips, falls, parking lot safety, and traffic control analysis.
Premises liability cases often turn on technical details that are invisible to the untrained eye. What is the actual coefficient of friction on that wet floor? Does the parking lot drainage comply with the applicable design standards? Did the property owner have constructive notice of the defect? These questions require careful engineering analysis, not just a walk-through with a camera.
Steven Ireland brings decades of civil engineering experience to premises safety cases. He has analyzed surface conditions, reviewed maintenance records, evaluated drainage designs, and assessed lighting systems against the standards that governed them. His analysis connects the physical conditions to the incident and to the duty of care that was owed — giving attorneys and juries a clear, complete picture of what happened and why.
We handle premises liability matters on all types of properties — commercial, retail, industrial, public, and residential — and work with both plaintiff and defense counsel nationwide.
