Water and wastewater overflow support for engineering firms

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• No minimum hours, no contract term
• PE review before anything comes back
• 525+ projects completed

When firms call us

• Your senior PE is doing plan-and-profile at night.
• A project has a water or wastewater piece your team does not do every day.
• An RFP needs utility depth you do not have in-house.
• You tried offshore drafting and spent the savings on rework.
• The backlog is a peak, not a reason to hire.

What we take on

• Plan-and-profile, details, exhibits and full sheet production in Civil 3D.
• Water distribution modeling and design. Wastewater collection and treatment design, including plants under 1 MGD.
• Pump and lift stations.
• Infiltration and inflow (I/I) analysis.
• TCEQ and CDPHE permit application support.
• Capital improvement plans, SRF project support, and impact fee and rate studies.
• Modeling support in WaterCAD, SewerCAD and EPANET. Markups in Bluebeam.

How the work runs

• Your standards. Send your templates and one sample set. We work in them. We do not ask you to use ours.
• Questions early. We ask up front, so the markups get shorter each round.
• Checked before it reaches you. Every set runs through MES's automated plan-QC checklist before our engineer's QC review. An MES PE then reviews the work before delivery. The checklist supports the PE review. It never replaces it.
• Turnaround agreed per task. We set the date with you before we start, and we tell you early if it is at risk.
• We tell you when not to send it. Under about $10K of production, outsourcing often does not pay. We will say so.

Who seals the work

You choose, and it is written down for each engagement.

• Default: we produce under your direct supervision, and you seal.
• Or: we design a discrete scope and seal it ourselves. Those sheets carry our firm name and registration number, as Texas requires.

We will not seal work we did not design. We will not ask you to seal work you did not supervise.

Where we work

Production under your supervision and seal works for a project in any state. When we seal, it is only in the 9 states where MES is licensed: Texas, Colorado, California, Oklahoma, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Kansas and New Mexico.

Your clients and your people stay yours

A written mutual non-solicitation covers your clients and your staff. It runs 24 months after our last joint project.

How to start

1. One test task. A small fixed-fee job on your real project, at full price. You judge it.
2. A standing overflow agreement. No minimum hours or term. Your standards are the spec. Plan-QC and PE review before delivery. Capacity that scales with you on 30 days' notice.

Our record

Our partner program is new, so we do not publish partner case studies yet. Your firm can be the first. What we can show is our own water and wastewater work:

• 525+ completed projects.
• Licensed in 9 states. Headquartered in McKinney, Texas.
• Three MES-led 210E reuse authorizations in Texas: a 1.0 MGD mixed-use project in Hays County, authorized in 10 weeks; a 2.0 MGD wastewater plant in Caldwell County, authorized in 4 weeks; and a Williamson County business park, authorized in 4 weeks after the county denied septic.

Questions firms ask

We tried offshore and it was a disaster. Why is this different?

We are a U.S. team that works in water and wastewater every day, and a PE reviews the work before it reaches you. Start with one small fixed-fee task and judge it.

How does file sharing work?

We work in your shared folders and file structure, and we keep your pathing and templates. Files we deliver open in your environment without repathing.

Who is responsible for the seal?

Your choice, written down per engagement. By default you supervise and seal. Or we design and seal a discrete scope, with our firm name and registration number on those sheets.

Will our client see your name?

Not on work you supervise and seal. That work goes out under your firm. If we seal a scope, our firm name and registration number appear on those sheets. We never contact or market to your client.

Will you go after our clients or our staff?

No. It is in writing: a mutual non-solicit covering clients and staff, for 24 months after our last joint project.

How does pricing work?

A lump sum for a defined deliverable, or time and materials. We recommend one once we see the scope.

What if the work is steady?

Then you should hire. Most firms use us for the peaks while they do.

Ready to stop turning away good work?

Send us one small task from a live project. We quote it as a fixed fee, deliver it PE-reviewed in your standards, and you decide what comes next.

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