Engineering

We staff a full team of engineers and technicians—civil, mechanical, electrical, transportation and structural. These teams are a leading resource for municipalities, utilities, developers, environmental groups, and others, and provide specialized support to our internal architect and design teams. Clients turn to us when they seek to measurably improve the efficiency, sustainability, constructability, and usability of their projects.

Civil Engineering

Our civil engineers, landscape architects, and surveyors are responsible for ensuring that each project is well considered in siting, orientation, traffic flow, landscaping, utilities in, storm water management, and more. They ensure that the built environment honors natural landforms, protects wetlands, manages runoff, and takes best advantage of natural shade and light.

With designated experts in a host of specialties including traffic management, wetlands restoration, universal design, limnology, and sustainable practices, this group provides expert consultation for a wide range of clients—within our firm and well beyond.

Progressive AE is a multi-disciplinary firm with all the services you will need provided by an in-house team of professionals. We have the vision and experience to anticipate and solve the many pitfalls that can derail a project to meet your budget and deliver the finished product the client desires on time.

Our experienced and diversified infrastructure team is eager to take your project from vision to reality utilizing our innovative solutions. The strong communication systems we utilize in our projects will ensure you are well informed throughout the project and develop trusting relationships with our team. We strive to exceed client expectations to be your trusted resource for decades to come.

Services:

• Municipal engineering
• Construction engineering
• Public utility design:
  • Water, wastewater, storm water
• Street design
• Trail and sidewalk design
• Asset management
• Grant writing
• Site development

Survey Team Services

As the basis for engineering design, our survey teams focus on accurate and complete surveys. We realize that the creation of an accurate and complete base map is the foundation for a successful engineering or architectural design.

Offering services as support for in-house design teams and stand-alone clients, our surveyors are dedicated to the efficient and timely completion of all land surveys. Writing property descriptions, right of way descriptions, and easement descriptions that can affect property rights is a service we offer to private citizens, energy companies, and municipalities. Construction layout surveys, post construction location surveys, and reports assist our building industry clients by ensuring structures are placed where they belong.

Our teams utilize advanced surveying equipment, software, and field techniques.

Services:

• Topographic surveys
• ALTA/NSPS land title surveys
• Construction layout
• As-built surveys
• Property boundary surveys
• Right of way / corridor surveys
• UAS / drone surveys
  • Aerial imaging
  • Surveying and mapping
  • Volumetric services (for gravel pits, aggregate piles, landfills and other)
  • Utility/cell tower inspections
  • Agricultural
  • Marketing
  • LIDAR
• GIS services
• Hydrographic surveys
• FEMA flood plain/elevation certificates
• Wetland delineation surveys
• FAA tower elevation surveys
• Legal description and easement descriptions
• Expert witness testimony
• Plats and site condominiums
• Riparian surveys

Traffic Engineering

We employ a dedicated group of transportation engineers who are experts in their fields. Our transportation engineers excel in transportation planning, transportation engineering, traffic analysis and signal design. They stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, making them well-equipped to speak the language of other transportation engineers, government officials, and concerned citizens.

Services:

• Community transportation master plans
• Intersection/corridor safety studies
• Road diets/street conversion analyses and design
• Roadway and street design
• Roadway pavement marking and signing plans
• Roundabout design and analysis
• Traffic and non-motorized data collection
• Traffic design study
• Traffic impact study
• Traffic microsimulation

Building Systems Engineering

Our mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering teams are creating new and innovative ways to reduce cost and energy consumption and improve human comfort and safety in the built environment.

Combining creativity with engineering know-how, these innovative thinkers are finding affordable and effective ways to make the most productive use of building systems—developing systems that capture geothermal energy or reclaim waste water, and designing lighting controls and systems that improve comfort and reduce costs. We’re even helping energy providers make notably better use of their own energy.

As we make discoveries in one market, we’re applying them to other markets we serve, helping organizations  do more without spending more and producing some amazing results in the process—in buildings, in neighborhoods, and in communities.

Services:

• Code review
• Electrical engineering
• Facility studies
• Lighting design
• Mechanical engineering
• Plumbing
• Science & technology
• Structural engineering
• Low voltage systems
  • Communications & data
  • Network cabling & fiber optics
  • WIFI
  • IT backbone
  • IDF/MDF rooms
  • DAS systems
  • Security cameras
  • Nurse call
  • Access control
  • Fire alarm systems

Energy

We’re developing innovative energy solutions that improve business performance—helping organizations assess their energy use, eliminate waste, increase their ROI, and evaluate the workability and long-term impact of energy options including traditional, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and cogeneration solutions. We’re resourceful. We’ve helped businesses identify and capture wasted energy and repurpose it throughout buildings and campuses for increased efficiency. And we’ve developed pioneering energy systems from affordable standard parts. We’re on top of changes in the industry and have helped clients take advantage of renewable energy credits, grants, and other incentives to finance their energy systems. We’ve even helped energy producers produce energy more efficiently. Talk to us about how we can apply creativity and advanced engineering to develop energy solutions that fit your budget, meet your needs, and return long-term benefits to your organization.

Services:

• Central & district energy systems
• Project development
• Renewable & alternative energy (biomass, geothermal, solar)
• Strategic energy planning
• Waste energy utilization