Structural Engineering & Consulting

Over 45 years of experience in the field and solving problems

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About

Our Structural Engineering Services

FL P.E. License #34222; Licensed in several Gulf States and beyond; Structural Engineering and Inspections

FL Special Inspector #651

Tom consults with other engineers, contractors, architects, owners, and fabricators.

If

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

My Experience

Tom has worked on space shuttle launching systems, underground tunnels, skyscrapers, performing art centers to barns, sheds, and garages.

Thomas A. Dixon, BSCE, P.E., SI

Education

University of Illinois, 1978, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering

Registrations

Registered Professional Engineer

State of: Florida, P.E. #34222, GA, TX, NC, CO, & SC

Special Inspector, State of Florida, S.I. #0651

FEMA USAR Structures Specialist (2010 to 2020), Florida Task Force #3, Sts-1 (Retired)

Related Work Experience

Forty six years of experience in the structural design arts including varied types of structures including commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings; sports facilities, performing arts centers, major historic renovations, bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers and numerous special structures. Thirty-seven years as Special Inspector of Threshold Buildings in the State of Florida.

Project Experience

6/23—Present THOMAS A DIXON PE INC

Owner/Solo Consulting Engineering

· Gonzmart Group Special Structural Consulting, Tampa, Fl

· CEMEX - Specialty Consulting

6/20—Present Wilson & Girgenti (WG), Inc. --- Tampa, FL

Senior Consultant Engineer

George M. Steinbrenner Data Facility, Tampa, Fl

OTCC Cushman Wakefield Various Structural renovations

Fifty-story Tower, Tampa, FL

Supervised, Signed and Sealed over 700 projects from

2020 to 2023

8/97—6/2019 Dixon Engineering, Inc. --- Tampa, FL

President

· Drummond Bank, Cross City, FL

· Ocala Country Club, Ocala, FL

· Marketplace East Shopping Center, Brandon, FL

· YWCA/USF Living Facility, St. Petersburg, FL

· Tampa Yacht & Country Club Fitness Center, Tampa, FL

· Tampa Firefighters Museum, Tampa, FL

· Turner Agri-Civic Center Reconstruction, Arcadia, FL

· Strawberry Festival Exhibition Hall, Plant City, FL

· MOSI “Kids In Charge” Building Frame Design, Tampa, FL

· Orlando International Airport Connection Design, Orlando, FL

· Ford Amphitheatre Erection Plans, Tampa, FL

· Bridge of Lions, Bridge Removal Plans, St. Augustine, FL

· I-95 Bridge Overpass Lifting, Stuart, FL & West Palm Exits, FL

· Marine Base Paint & Maintenance Building Renovations, Jacksonville, FL

· Key West Pier Review, Key West, FL – Hendry Corporation

· Tampa Bay Ship Building 30 Ton Semi Gantry

· Silo Renovation/Relocations – Paver Systems, FL

· Piping Support – Indian River Petroleum

· Polyglass USA – Rack Support Engineering

· Hess Corporation – Gas Delivery Canopy

· Jim Woodruff Spillway Renovation

· USF Visual Arts Cantilever Repair

· Inglis Hydropower Powerhouse, Inglis Fl

· Hess Corporation Substation Renovation, Port of Tampa

· TECO Natural Gas Conversion Piping Support, Polk Co.

· Ibn Zahr, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, Process Tower/Platform

Thomas A Dixon PE Inc Consulting with Owners, Contractors, Engineers and Architects to solve problems and move projects forward.