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Our Sponsors
If your company would like to become a sponsor of the ASCE Houston Branch, please contact the ASCE Vice President of Administration, Patrick Beecher, at pmbeecher@terracon.com for more information.
 AEI Engineering is a consulting civil engineering firm located in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area, offering civil engineering services to Municipalities, Government Agencies, Developers, Industry, and other Consulting Engineering firms.
Drawing on a solid record of experience and achievement, our team offers the following professional services:
AEI has been providing quality engineering services to its clients for over twenty years. Our engineers also offer professional consulting services in water district creation, bond reports, permit applications, construction supervision, and preparation of facility plans. Additionally, AEI works with a number of highly qualified sub-consultants to coordinate efforts in the areas of surveying, geotechnical engineering, and environmental audits and assessments.
Established in 1975, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. provides a comprehensive range of civil engineering and surveying services for municipal, drainage, transportation, traffic, and land and site development projects throughout Texas. Each project is managed by a principal engineer to provide responsiveness through leadership.
Brown & Gay Engineers has been ranked in the Top 500 Design firms in the country by Engineering News-Record for the past 5 years, as one of the top 10 Civil and Structural Engineering Firms by the Houston Business Journal, and as the 17th largest design firm in Texas by Texas Construction magazine. Brown & Gay Engineers is a privately owned corporation with office locations in Houston, Austin, Tyler, Plano and Fort Worth.
Ergonomic Transportation Solutions, Inc. (ETSI) was incorporated in September 1998
and specializes in the fields of Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning. Since its
establishment, the company has successfully completed several signal designs,
illumination designs, planning studies, traffic impact studies, feasibility studies and
intelligent transportation studies.
ETSI has focused on developing high quality designs and proven to produce exceptional
services. Maintaining focus on transportation and traffic projects enables the company
to provide the right combination of technical skills, high quality work and superior service.
The firm is known for constant attention to detail, on budget performance and has the
capability to meet and / or exceed deadlines.
ETSI emphasizes the development of creative, cost-effective and result-oriented
solutions to planning and design problems. The large number of repeat clients
evidences our commitment to quality and service.
 Freese and Nichols, Inc. is a full service professional consulting firm serving municipal and county governments, water districts, the U.S. government and higher education. With offices in Houston and Pearland (Freese and Nichols is one of the first companies to move into the new Pearland Town Center), as well as Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, Freese and Nichols’ 450 employees provide engineering, architecture, environmental science, planning and program management services throughout Texas. In 2009, Freese and Nichols was honored with the Private Practice Professional Development Award from both the Texas and National Societies of Professional Engineers. For more information about Freese and Nichols, visit www.freese.com.
 Since opening our doors in 1946, Fugro Consultants, Inc.
(Fugro) has earned a solid reputation as one of the leading
onshore geotechnical engineering companies in the United
States. Our reputation for dependability reflects the firm's
commitment to provide outstanding technical expertise
supported by state-of-the-practice technology. With
headquarters in Houston and major offices in other areas of
Texas and South Louisiana, Fugro performs geotechnical
engineering and materials testing assignments throughout the United States. We also work
closely with other Fugro affiliates to accomplish projects worldwide. Fugro Consultants offers services that include onshore geotechnics; engineering geophysics; construction materials engineering and testing (CMET); pavement management; state-of-the art laboratory examination of soils; and nondestructive testing of metals and alloys. We work with a broad spectrum of clients representing industrial, commercial, government, and institutional interests.
Currently, we employ approximately 400 people in nine offices in Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona. More than 10% of our staff are licensed Professional Engineers.
Klotz Associates began for the City of Houston in 1985, executing utility projects, drainage and transportation projects. Our professional engineers offer expertise ranging from planning and feasibility studies through final design. We have prepared plans, specifications, and estimates (PS&E) and can provide construction-phase services, including owner’s representation. Our engineering professionals have planned and designed drainage assignments, traffic assignments, on-airport facilities, transportation and street improvements, including pavement design, flood control projects, water supply and distribution systems, and wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal systems.
Today, Klotz Associates employs over 120 people in four offices, statewide. In addition to our Houston headquarters, we maintain offices in Austin, San Antonio, and Lufkin, Texas. A large number of our employees are Professional Engineers (PEs) licensed by the State of Texas. Two of our PE’s are also certified as Professional Traffic Operations Engineers (PTOE’s), and our Chief Engineer is a Certified Floodplain Manager, as well as several others.
Lhoist North America (LNA), formerly known as Chemical Lime Company (CLC), was founded in 1966 with the purchase of its first quarry in Clifton, Texas. By 1968, the quarry was open and producing crushed limestone; and in 1971, its first kiln was in operation.
Growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and construction of the DFW International airport created a strong demand in the 1970s for lime in soil stabilization and solidified LNA’s place in the market.
The same growth opportunity in the Houston construction market, along with the vast industrial and refinery business, allowed Chemical Lime to acquire Chemlime in La Porte and Arcola, Texas in 1986.
In 1981, the Lhoist Group, Brussels, Belgium began investing in CLC and acquired full ownership in 1998. Today, LNA is one of the leading lime producers and marketers of lime products in the United States and a major part of the Lhoist Group, one of the largest lime companies in the world.
LNA’s product range includes all products derived from the calcination of HIGH CALCIUM AND DOLOMITIC limestone—quicklime, hydrated lime, lime slurry—generally known as ‘lime’. Chemical Lime manufactures products specifically designed for water and wastewater treatment, steel manufacturing, building construction, road and highway construction, hot mix asphalt, mine reclamation, paper production, copper, gold and alumina processing, and flue gas desulfurization.
Lhoist North America’s innovative spirit has propelled it into a leadership position in today’s market along with numerous plants and terminals in North America to serve its customers.
is a civil engineering firm offering design and construction management services. Our Divisions offer services for Municipal, Transportation, Industrial and Land Development projects. MEC has grown from a one man office in 1977 to a multi service firm staffed with experienced professionals. In the last 33 years, MEC has provided professional engineering services for public and private sectors primarily in the greater Houston area and South Texas.
Our business is built on our dedication to design excellence, innovative and practical solutions and our ability to be responsive to the needs of our clients, meeting their schedules, budgets and objectives. The leadership role that our firm plays during a project’s fact-finding and design phases is of special benefit to our clients. We are skilled at identifying and solving potential problems during these formative phases and throughout the project.
It is our management policy to have the Principal and Project Manager readily available as a resource and active participant in every phase of a project. When applicable, we assemble and manage teams of highly qualified consulting firms with the specialized experience needed for a particular project. This enables our firm to efficiently and successfully perform large projects.
Our staff’s commitment to excellence, as well as their attitude of professionalism and dedication, is evident in our ability to retain and grow our client base. We practice the fundamental professional values of honesty, integrity and objectivity. To keep us on the cutting edge of our profession, we place special emphasis on continuing education pertaining to design criteria, computer applications, specifications and regulatory requirements. Participation in professional organizations and technical committees dedicated to civil engineering issues has always been an important part of our management philosophy.
 Michael Baker Corporation (NYSE Amex: BKR), founded in 1940, provides professional engineering and consulting expertise for public and private sector clients worldwide.The Company’s markets of focus include Aviation, Defense, Environmental, Facilities, Geospatial Information Technologies, Homeland Security, Municipal & Civil, Pipelines & Utilities, Transportation, and Water. Services span the complete life cycle of infrastructure and managed asset projects, including planning, design, construction services, asset management, and asset renewal.With more than 2,300 employees in over 40 offices across the United States and internationally, Baker is consistently ranked by Engineering News Record among the top 10% of the 500 largest U.S. design firms.
Pavestone Company has manufactured segmental concrete landscaping products for the commercial, residential, and retail markets since 1980. Sixteen state-of-the-art facilities, including the local plant in Katy, Texas, manufacture products distributed to over 40 states. We are the recognized industry leader and set the standards for service, selection, and quality among specifiers, contractors, and do-it-yourself customers.
Pavestone Company’s vision for thirty years has been “to improve the landscape of the USA with environmentally friendly concrete beauty.” We are still striving to keep our world clean, green, and beautiful with the ongoing development and promotion of eco-friendly permeable paving solutions. Eco-Priora™ and Eco-Venetian Stone™, our newest generation of permeable pavers, have been specified on numerous local projects. Both products, when engineered and installed, provide stormwater detention capability, reduced stormwater pollutant discharge, and LEED credit compliance.
Educational opportunities regarding our products are available for engineering and architectural firms in the greater Houston area. A series of lunch presentations offering continuing education credits is available from our technical staff that includes two Landscape Architects and a P.E. in Civil Engineering. We also provide support, expertise, and years of industry experience to assist you on your next project.
 Terracon is a dynamic and growing employee-owned firm of consulting engineers and scientists providing multiple related service lines to clients at local, regional and national levels. Since 1965, Terracon has grown from a small Iowa geotechnical firm to a large, multifaceted national firm.
With more than 3,000 employees and over 95 offices nationwide, Terracon has the resources of a large firm with the atmosphere of a small one. This growth is the result of talented, dedicated employees working toward a common goal to complement each other to deliver success for clients and employees. Our services are delivered on a timely basis with consistently high value and attention to client needs. Terracon has consistently achieved growth above the industry average. This is evidenced by a current ranking of 51 in Engineering News-Record’s 2007 listing of the Top 500 Design Firms, as compared to a ranking of 103 in 1995.
TSC Engineering (TSC) is an established civil engineering and surveying firm located in Southwest Houston. A privately held corporation, TSC was founded in 1981 to provide a broad range of multi-discipline engineering and surveying services for institutional, commercial and public works projects. TSC is staffed with professional engineers, land surveyors and technicians — totaling over 25 employees, including licensed Professional Engineers and Registered Professional Land Surveyors. Office and field personnel are equipped with state-of-the-art computer hardware and software.
TSC’s primary business is providing professional civil engineering and surveying services for clients engaged in accommodating the public with appropriate infrastructure. TSC is cognizant of the cost constraints associated with its projects and prides itself in providing quality services and solutions, which its clients can afford. While TSC is not afraid of being innovative, it takes a more pragmatic approach when designing projects that will be built for public use, with public funds. TSC believes this attitude transcends to its private client services as well.
Walter P Moore is a consulting firm established to provide civil, structural, structural diagnostics, traffic and transportation engineering services and parking consulting services to discerning public and private sector clients throughout the United States and internationally. To create a corporate design environment in which the benefits of collaboration can be maximized, our thirteen U.S. offices are unified by common technical, management, and financial goals.
Walter P Moore has built a reputation for design solutions that help clients turn their ideas into structures and infrastructures that work. The company has been recognized throughout its long history for superb client service, engineering excellence and innovation, and in recent years has been consistently rated as one of the industry's best places to work.
If your company would like to become a sponsor of the ASCE Houston Branch, please contact the ASCE Vice President of Administration, Patrick Beecher, at pmbeecher@terracon.com for more information.
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