What we do
Concept plan to plat to construction, with drainage and access solved early.
We take a Texas site from concept plan to approved plans and through construction. Grading, drainage, paving, access, and water and sewer service are designed by one team, so the sheets agree before they reach a reviewer.
The city reviews plats, site plans and drainage inside its limits, and often plats in its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). The county reviews land outside them. TxDOT reviews any driveway onto a state highway. A site that disturbs one acre or more needs coverage under TCEQ’s construction stormwater general permit, TXR150000. Over the Edwards Aquifer, TCEQ must approve a protection plan under 30 TAC Chapter 213 before regulated work starts.
We build the plans on the boundary and topographic survey and the geotechnical report, which come from those consultants. Architecture, structural and MEP engineering stay with the building team. We coordinate with each so the civil set matches their work.
Bring us in before you close, or before a concept plan is fixed. In Lindsay, we laid out a 48-lot subdivision with its detention pond, water line extension and sewer. Outside Texas, see civil engineering in Colorado, Florida and Arizona.
An engineer reads your note and tells you the pathway, the agencies involved and what decides cost and schedule.
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Projects
Corinth, TX
This office and retail center needed an I-35 frontage driveway and detention that handled runoff from the site and the land around it. MES coordinated with TxDOT and the City of Corinth and designed the detention. The driveway was approved, and the center was built.
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Lindsay, TX
A 48-lot layout on 14 acres, with detention, water and sewer design and a future industrial site.
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Seagoville, TX
Paving, grading, utilities and drainage for a built retail plaza, with streambank stabilization designed into the site.
Read the projectQuestions
Where access can go, how drainage and detention affect the usable area, who will serve water and sewer, and which agencies review the site. A site feasibility review puts that in writing.
Yes. We coordinate the civil set with the building plans, the survey and the geotechnical report, and we answer questions during construction.
It depends on the city, the county or TxDOT, and on how many rounds of comments come back. We answer each round and update every sheet the change touches.
Talk to an engineer
Not a salesperson. Someone who can tell you whether the pathway is real.
Your options, the agencies involved and the questions that decide cost and schedule.
No commitment to have the first call.
Prefer the phone? (214) 833-6748
