McDowell Owens Engineering
Business Consulting and ServicesTexas, United States11-50 Employees
McDowell Owens Engineering, based in Houston, Texas, is a mid-sized forensic engineering practice that provides independent analysis of failures and incidents. It serves clients across legal, oil and gas, insurance, electrical, and petrochemical sectors as well as the private sector, delivering objective assessments and, when needed, reconstructing scenes of fires, explosions, and vehicle incidents. Using specialized testing, the firm seeks to determine what happened, why it occurred, and whether mitigating factors or human error were involved. Its capabilities span fire and explosion investigation, mechanical and electrical engineering, civil and structural engineering, advanced electronic systems, accident reconstruction, and gas system analysis and testing. Operating within the business consulting and services industry, the company aims to provide verifiable, technically grounded opinions to support decision-making in risk, liability, and option evaluation.