About Us

C&S has been providing a variety of engineering services to light industry, law offices, insurance companies and educational institutions since 1986. These services have ranged from creating customized automated equipment to specialized testing services. C&S has participated in numerous personal injury cases by acting as an expert witness through testing, recreation and demonstration experiments as well as providing expert testimony.

C&S founder, Mitchell Cottrell, has a wide breadth of experience which brings a unique skill set to C&S’s services. With 14 years of experience in fire suppression, fire suppression education and investigation, degrees in electronics, computer science and systems engineering, experience in industrial electronics and electrical systems and over ten years as a university instructor in the area of Mechanical Instrumentation and testing, C&S has the experience base to investigate systems and processes as well as individual devices or products. We can look not only at what happened, but how and why, examining the interrelated effects of both a product and the environment that it was used in.

Over the years C&S has also provided a wide range of testing services to the insurance industry, primarily in fault investigation. From lightning damaged well pumps to vehicle accidents, C&S has the engineering experience to investigate and isolate the cause, or verify that the claimed cause, really did occur.

C&S also has a wide breadth of other skills, with a staff that includes experts in Mechanical Engineering, logistics and environmental sciences.

C&S now is applying its engineering skill set to residential home inspections, examining the interrelated systems of structure, plumbing, HVAC, electrical and environment to provide potential home owners with a unique view of their prospective new home and what issues it may currently face. With years of experience in not only maintaining but also building residential structures, C&S can apply its engineering knowledge and skills toward providing prospective owners with a highly professional snapshot of the home they are looking to purchase. C&S has the experience and knowledge required for those special types of structures, including the growing field of renewable energy. Windmills, solar voltaic panels, high capacity battery packs and backup generation facilities take special considerations which many home inspectors just don’t have the background to handle.