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Company Profile

The products listed on this website and in the ACS catalog have been or are in the process of being engineered by Penta Design Solutions, an engineering firm whose personnel have decades of experience in designing metal connectors.  

Penta Design Solutions was created to provide metal connector manufacturers with the necessary design and specifications to manufacture engineered, tested, and code approved structural connectors for the wood construction industry.

Our services include:

-Structural design of metal connectors
-Latest NDS load calculations
-Product Testing to the latest code standards
-Code approval listing of many standard industry products (Code Approvals)
-Sealed engineering for special custom connectors
-Development of an ICC-ES approved quality control program for manufacturers
-Technical specifications for drawings
-Technical support service for building officials and engineering inquiries

Our mission is to provide engineers, architects and builders with a fast, economical alternative to the standard products and design connectors for special applications as needed on construction projects.

Although Penta Design Solutions is new to the industry, our people are not. Below is a short profile of our engineering team

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Mark Jensen
President/CEO
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University

Mark has been designing, developing, testing, and obtaining code approvals on metal connectors for the past 32 years. He has developed, tested, and obtained code approval on many of the products used in the industry today. He is the inventor of the patented BOSS system and innovated the hanger industry in 1989 with the first connectors designed to be installed with pneumatic nail guns.

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Scott Jones S.E.
Engineering Design
M.S. Civil Engineering
Brigham Young University


Scott is currently a professional structural engineer and partner with Wright Engineers, Las Vegas, NV. As a member of the Penta team, Scott reviews and advises on the structural integrity and load applications for the products being developed by Penta Design Solutions. Scott has been involved in the testing and load calculations of metal connectors and has worked in the engineering specification industry for the past 19 years.

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Don Jensen
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University



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Nate Jensen
Product Design
A.S. Computer Aided Design

 
Nate has an associate degree in CAD design. He has 8 years of experience designing and manufacturing structural metal connectors using his CAD/CAM skills and can make almost any product on computerized punch presses and brakes. With his math and computer experience he has developed detailed spreadsheets for the fast and efficient calculation of load values using the latest NDS criteria.

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Jacob Roisum
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University - Idaho
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