Who’s Your Civil Engineer?
By: Monte Moreschi, P.E., LEED
Today’s Civil Engineer does more than just the grading, and erosion and sediment control plans. They take care of rezoning, overall site layout, local ordinance compliance, driveway permits, storm water management, underground utilities, potable water permits, sanitary sewer permits, site traffic patterns, and raw material and finished goods logistics. The Civil Engineer also provides coordination between building plumbing, building foundations, equipment foundations, electrical duct banks, surveyors, vendors, etc. They even provide coordination between other Civil Engineers hired to assist with local ordinances and contractor selection!
This is why more and more clients are hiring the Civil Engineers directly outside of EPC contracts or requesting their presence early in the process. Continue reading this in the Barn Raiser.
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“In the tradition of a community coming together to raise a barn, Mid-South Engineering is committed to working with our friends and neighbors as partners, knowing we can accomplish more by working together, with the common goals of lifting each other’s burdens and side-by-side framing our future for the better.”
