Developing engineering competence and accumulating project experience is a long term process.
CONSTRUCTION BACKGROUND
Davidson has hands-on experience in the construction industry that began 37 years ago.    Davidson worked in a family-owned construction business and later worked his way through college with jobs in the building trades and heavy construction industry.   Davidson worked as a laborer, a heavy equipment machinery operator, and as a construction engineer.    This gives Davidson first-hand knowledge of what can (and cannot) be done with both man-power and machinery.   This job experience spans a total of 17 years.

ENGINEERING BACKGROUND
After receiving a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Davis, Davidson worked for a structural engineering firm primarily specializing in the design of  commercial, institutional and industrial building structures.
Davidson designed a variety of occupied building structures composed of wood, masonry, concrete, and steel.    He also worked on a significant number of non-building structures.
Davidson designed wood structures to three stories in height, masonry structures to five stories in height,  concrete structures to eight stories in height, and steel structures to 1,000 feet in height.

COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE DESIGN BACKGROUND
During his employment with this structural engineering firm, Davidson began a career in the design and review of communication structures.    Davidson was offered and availed himself of the opportunity to gain experience in the design of guyed, self-supporting, and other special communication structures.
Over a four year period, Davidson designed 25 guyed tower projects ranging in heights to 1000 feet tall.    He also designed 4 self-supporting towers with heights up to 315 feet tall.    Davidson also worked on the design of special communication structure mounts on existing building roof tops for satellite dishes measuring up to 20 feet (6.1m) in diameter.

SPECIALIZATION IN COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES ENGINEERING
For the past 18 years Davidson has specialized in the design and review of communication structures.    Davidson is the Engineer of Record of approximately 2000 communication structures (see next page for a partial client list).    These structures cover the full spectrum of communication applications and complexities.    DAVIDSON ENGINEERING's project clients include TV, AM, and FM broadcasters; cellular, PCS and wireless carriers, paging companies;  microwave communication companies; government agencies; public utility companies, private utilities; and other specialized industries that require non-communication tower structures.

UNIQUE BLEND OF EXPERIENCE
It is Davidson's unique blend of experience in heavy construction, building construction, building structural design,  and communication structure design and review that allows him to draw on this comprehensive experience in dealing with all phases of the project.
These phases can include: initial project feasibility studies and cost estimates;  bid document preparation; structural review for equipment additions;  structural design and construction contract document preparation; bid proposal review; value engineering; construction inspection; post-construction inspection; and structural calculations to verify conformance with EIA, UBC, BOCA, SBC, ASCE, AISC, AWS, CRSI, UMC, NDS, ACI, AITC, and other building codes and standards.

It is Davidson's unique blend of experience in heavy construction, building construction, building structural design,  and communication structure design and review that allows him to draw on this comprehensive experience in dealing with all phases of the project.