About Us

Looking Beyond the Cracks

Criterium-Williams Residential Engineering provides licensed residential structural engineering and foundation inspections for homeowners across Central Texas. Our inspections are performed by Texas-licensed Professional Engineers and are grounded in established engineering standards, objective analysis, and professional judgment.

A home is a system of interconnected components—where soils influence foundation behavior, foundations support the structure, and each element affects overall performance. Our engineers approach every residential foundation inspection and structural evaluation with this systems-based perspective, allowing us to evaluate visible symptoms and potential underlying contributors, rather than focusing on isolated conditions alone.

Our team brings experience in residential structural engineering, foundation behavior, slab and pier-and-beam systems, and building enclosure performance, enabling us to assess how framing, foundations, soils, drainage, and construction detailing interact in real-world conditions. Because we are actively involved in residential design and forensic evaluation, we inspect existing homes with a clear understanding of how they are intended to perform—and how they commonly change over time.

Since 2015, our engineers have completed over 2,000 engineering inspections under consistent technical standards, much of that work supporting professional and third-party clients throughout Central Texas. Criterium-Williams Residential Engineering was created to give homeowners direct access to that same level of methodical, data-driven engineering that has long supported professional, municipal, and industry clients—now focused on helping individual homeowners make clear, well-informed decisions about their homes.

Engineers

J. Dustin Williams, P.E.

J. Dustin Williams, P.E.

Dustin is a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in the inspection and analysis of existing buildings—more than 1,500 residential structural inspections and hundreds of repair plans across Central Texas over the past decade. When conventional repair methods didn’t fit what he kept seeing in the field, he invented his own: U.S. Patent No. 10,961,682, a method for concrete slab foundation repair. He has watched Central Texas clay do just about everything clay can do to a foundation.

James F. Robinson, P.E.

James F. Robinson, P.E.

Jamie is a licensed Professional Engineer with experience in foundation, steel-frame, and wood-frame design across a wide range of project types. He has performed hundreds of quality assurance inspections for new construction as well as forensic evaluations of existing structures. Before earning his master’s degree in structural engineering, Jamie worked as a custom home framer—experience that provides him with a valuable combination of hands-on construction knowledge and advanced engineering insight.

Criterium-Williams Engineers office in New Braunfels, Texas

Our New Braunfels office — 325 S. Castell Ave, New Braunfels, TX