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What we do

Drive-thru, kiosk and multi-site programs

Send your next five LOI sites. We flag the permit and utility risks before the leases go hard.

What this covers

Your prototype is standardized. Your cities are not. A drive-thru can need a hearing nobody mentioned, utility service runs on its own clock, and a local engineer new to your building bills you for the lesson.

We work as civil engineer of record, attached to your prototype, not redesigning it. What each city asked for carries to the next site, so each new site starts from what the earlier ones learned.

The first read of your sites

Send the addresses or LOIs. For each site we check how the city classifies the use (allowed by right, or needing a conditional or special use permit), whether water and sewer reach the pad, whether the stacking fits, whether detention is triggered and whether a design review applies. You see the risks site by site and can decide before the leases go hard.

What repeats and what changes

The plan set repeats: a cover sheet, a site plan and a utility plan, built on each site’s survey. What changes is local. Some cities ask for more sheets, such as photometric, profile or kiosk elevation sheets, and each utility sets its own service rules. A driveway onto a state highway needs the state transportation department’s permit. We add what each city asks for, answer its comments and keep the record, so the jurisdiction data comes back to you.

Start with a first answer

An engineer reads your note and tells you the pathway, the agencies involved and what decides cost and schedule.

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Projects

Work like this

Small equipment enclosures, a generator and a utility meter rack on concrete pads in new seeded ground beside a fuel station canopy.

Seven states

Drive-up water kiosk site program in seven states

By October 2026, MES had finished civil site-plan and city-review work on 128 drive-up water kiosk sites. The 125 sites with city records span 98 cities in seven states. Each city’s comments shaped the sheets and revisions it needed, and the program keeps adding sites.

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Arizona and Florida

Ice vending site permits across Arizona and Florida

Plans, jurisdiction checks and permit applications for 43 addresses, in an ongoing program.

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Aerial view of a convenience store and fuel station with a long canopy, a paved lot, a landscaped frontage and a drainage swale beside a divided highway, with pine woods behind.

Florida

Ice vending machine sites in Florida

Three site and utility plan sets, each issued within two weeks of the first hour logged on it.

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Questions

Straight answers

Our franchisees pick their own engineers. Does this work?

Yes. Give them a vetted option with a per-site fee they can model, and you get the jurisdiction data back.

How is it priced?

The five-site read is a fixed fee, credited in full to a two- or three-site pilot. Then a lump sum per site.

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Tell us about your project

  1. An engineer reads it

    Not a salesperson. Someone who can tell you whether the pathway is real.

  2. You get a first answer

    Your options, the agencies involved and the questions that decide cost and schedule.

  3. You decide

    No commitment to have the first call.

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