Dr Al Gonzalez, PE is the CEO and President with DOTec Engineering in St Charles, Missouri.

He began working in engineering in the early 1978. He received his Doctorate in Engineering education from Missouri S&T 2007, MSME, Mechanical Engineering from Washington University 1984, and his BSCE Civil Engineering from RUM, Puerto Rico 1978.

During the past three decades his work has focused upon developing solutions to infrastructure problems in Civil Engineering Structural and Mechanical Engineering, utilizing local, state codes dealing with building officials. In that capacity, his primary clients have been, residential, commercial, industrial clients, mainly in North America, with exposure to clients in Europe, Australia.

His work over the past 30 years can be summarized as covering the following subjects:

• The design development from the civil works to the structures and MEP of residential, industrial, pharmaceuticals, animal vet facilities, Emergency Urgent Care and other commercial facilities.
• Design, analysis, development of Air Supported Structures all over North America for storage, soccer, tennis, and swimming facilities,
• Design analysis of green houses, gazebos, garages, metallic and timber structures, AAC structures.
• Fall protection structures for all kind of different applications like train stations, busses, hangars.
• Forensic investigation of structural failures, fires, accidents, sleep and fall, retaining wall failures, connections failure analysis.

Dr. Gonzalez, PE collaborated in the development of the old and new ASCE 55 code on Air Supported Structures has authored peer-reviewed articles on structures and has spoken at numerous conferences during the past decades. He holds eight patents in ophthalmology, compound meters and breathalyzers.