Design & Engineering
Structural Engineering
- Structural inspections including limited access rope inspections for hydraulic concrete structures and dams, buildings, Hydraulic Steel Structures (HSS), penstocks, and bridges
- Structural design for buildings (masonry, wood, concrete, and steel), hydraulic concrete structures, and bridges
- Specialized HSS design (tainter, radial, and vertical lift gates, fish screens, and ladders) including fabrication coordination and installation support
- Stability analysis of concrete dams, spillways, and appurtenant structures including gravity, pseudo-dynamic, and dynamic analysis procedures with 2–D and 3–D finite element modeling
- Seismic design assessments and seismic analysis of dams, spillways, and appurtenant structures
Geotechnical
Geotechnical investigations
- Material sampling/testing (in situ and laboratory)
- Undisturbed sample collection
Boring and test pit logging - Soil classification
- Site characterization
Geotechnical analyses
- Rock mechanics
- Slope stability analysis
- Landslide mitigation
- Seepage analysis
- Deformation analysis
- Settlement
- Foundations including deep piles
- Excavation support
Geotechnical monitoring and instrumentation
- Construction geotechnical special inspections and verifications
- Geotechnical Data Reports (GDR) and Geotechnical Baseline Reports (GBR)
- Dam safety services
Geotechnical design
- Deep and shallow foundations
- Slope stabilization
- Retaining walls
- Temporary excavation support
- Permanent excavation support
- Ground improvement and stabilization
- Filter design and evaluation
Seismic hazard analysis
- Deterministic seismic hazard analysis
- Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis
- Liquefaction susceptibility
- Seismic deformation analysis
- Seismic design including foundation mitigation
Mechanical
Engineering
- Inspection, analysis, and lifecycle assessments of electromechanical equipment and turbomachinery components
- Mechanical design and refurbishment including integration into existing legacy components
- ~~Powertrain
- ~~ Custom machine design for unique applications
- ~~ HVAC and plumbing design
- ~~ Power and process piping design
- ~~ Hydraulic and pneumatic power systems design
- ~~ 3D modeling of components and systems
- Multidisciplinary approach including close collaboration with structural, civil, and electrical engineers, vendors, manufacturers, contractors, and owners
- Procurement of major mechanical equipment, including specification development, coordination with OEMs, and contract drawing development
- Support during construction, including submittal reviews to ensure contract compliance
- Quality assurance shop and site inspections during fabrication
- On-site startup and commissioning support to facilitate integration
Electrical
Engineering
- Modeling and analyses of electrical systems, including load flow, short circuit, motor starting, and arc-flash analyses
- Code compliance reviews and assessment
- Energy efficiency, including power factor correction analysis and design
- Electrical power distribution low- and medium-voltage design for industrial, process, and power generation facilities, including power service, switchgear, mechanical and machinery motor control, standby systems, adjustable frequency drives, convenience power, and lighting
- Instrumentation and control systems, including SCADA systems
- Process integration, including Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming and Human Machine Interface (HMI) development
- Outdoor site electrical systems, including underground duct banks, utility interconnections, outdoor switchgear and sectionalizing switches, and remote/self-powered sites
- Low- to high-voltage substation design and upgrades, including protective relaying and control systems
- Design, specification, and startup/commissioning services for generating systems/stations, generator switchgear and controls, generator, bus, and feeder protective relaying, utility dispatch and supervision connections and coordination, and generator step-up transformers
Fire & Life Safety
- Fire protection engineers with NICET IV certification for fire alarms, NICET III certification for water-based systems, and Ansul® Chemguard certification in foam suppression system design
- Fully licensed NCEES-examined fire protection engineers compliant with USACE UFC 3–600–01
- On-site life safety inspections, fire hazards analysis, water supply characterization and hydrant testing, and full services fire protection systems testing and commissioning
- Fire suppression systems design (e.g., water, clean agent, gaseous, and hybrid suppression)
- Fire alarm systems (e.g., enterprise-scale control systems with detection, mass notification, releasing panels, complex smoke control sequences, detailed wiring diagrams, access control, and programming review)
- HVAC systems for smoke control and management
- Wildland/Urban Interface fire reports, hydrant systems, fire breaks, and site planning
- Experienced with NFPA 770-compliant hybrid (water and inert gas) suppression
Effective liaison to Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
Civil
Engineering
General civil
- Site civil including excavation and roads
- Water control and conveyance
- Stormwater design
- Yard piping design
- Penstock design
- Potable water conveyance
- Sanitary sewer conveyance
- Pump stations
- Intakes
- Erosion and sediment control
- Geomorphology, fluvial geomorphic assessments, and site reconnaissanc
- Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) analysis with overtopping scenarios
- FEMA flood mapping, no-rise evaluations, Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR), and Letter of Map Revision (LOMR)
- Sediment transport modeling
- Total Dissolved Gas (TDG) abatement
- Water supply forecasting groundwater flow
- Water quality and temperature modeling
- Habitat suitability modeling
General hydrologic analysis
- Flow volumes
- Frequency analysis
- Flow duration
- Hydrologic modeling (HEC–HMS)
- Hydrologic statistics (HEC–SSP)
General hydraulic analysis
- Open channel flow
- Hydraulic modeling (HEC–RAS 1D and 2D)
- Outlet/spillway capacity
- Stage discharge curves
- Energy dissipation performance
Dam break analysis with inundation mapping
- HEC–RAS 2D
- Arc Map
Inflow Design Flood (IDF) analysis
- HEC–RAS 2D
- HEC–HMS
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling
- Flow–3D
Hydraulic transient analysis
- Cavitation
- Water hammer
- Surge analysis
- AFT Impulse
Pressurized pipe flow models, pipe network modeling
- EPANET
- AFT Impulse
Construction
Management
- Development and implementation of quality assurance program
- Contract administration
- Project controls (schedule and budget development and updates)
- Facilitation of coordination meetings
- Procurement
- Processing of RFI submissions
- Change management
- Clear documentation of field changes
- Independent Quality Control Implementation Programs (QCIP)
- Onsite inspections, testing, and documentation
- Ensure safety protocols are followed
- Selection and coordination with third-party testing companies or agencies
- Permitting compliance monitoring
- Contract compliance including quality and design/specs
- Progress reporting
- Document control
- Punch lists and project closeout
