Meet Clarity Engineering
Clarity Engineering has a combined 40 years of geotechnical engineering experience in infrastructure projects and commercial/residential development. The principals of Clarity Engineering have proven experience in private consulting and public agencies resulting in a unique blend of understanding the impact of engineering analyses and navigating the political, social, and economic environments that affect projects. We balance cost, risk, and sound engineering to deliver you a successful project.
Claire Gibson, PE
CEO
Claire earned her engineering degrees from the University of Washington (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (M.S.). She began her career in the Bay Area, but decided her heart was in Seattle and returned to the Puget Sound Region. Claire’s geotechnical experience includes subsurface characterization and field testing, foundations, deep excavations, seismic hazard studies, slope stability, and levee analysis. As Claire advanced in her career she began to concentrate on public works projects and went to work for a local agency. She has extensive experience in project delivery at the city, county, and state levels. She has helped author City standards, design guidance manuals, and participated in project risk assessments. Claire's passion for geotechnical engineering and public works called her to launch Clarity Engineering as an avenue to serve her community, and as a woman-owned enterprise allow her to grow the diversity of geotechnical firms in the region.
Matthew Gibson, PhD, PE
Principal
Dr. Gibson is a geotechnical engineer with 20 years of professional practice and research experience along the west coast of the United States and Canada. These projects include design and construction aspects of high-rise buildings, shoring for deep excavations, 1D, 2D, and 3D static and dynamic, soil-structure interaction analyses, 1D and 2D site-specific site response analyses including effects of non-linearity, liquefaction, and lateral spreading, probabilistic seismic hazard analyses, commercial high rise developments, hospitals, seismic retrofits, port facilities and berth deepening, highway expansions, reinforced slope stabilization, drilled and driven deep foundations; and ground improvement to mitigate effects of liquefaction, lateral spreading, and settlement sensitive soils. Matt has extensive numerical analysis experience in finite element, finite difference, discrete element, and particle flow methods to model various geologic materials. Matt’s research studies included earthquake engineering and seismic rock slope stability methods.