We provide fully integrated facility solutions that ensure the execution of capital projects across markets, offering local presence and global reach to the private and public sectors.
With broad-based expertise across disciplines, we are an unparalleled source for performance-driven facilities built to deliver, from concept to ribbon-cutting.
With a broad range of in-house engineering expertise, we can optimize your current operations or take your new project from concept to completion, providing unrivaled service and results.
Haskell is a global network of experts providing integrated design, engineering, construction and professional services to clients and communities.
Home / News & Insights / Haskell’s Civil-Site Engineers Integrate Early and Often to Help Ensure Fast, Certain Project Delivery
As the first boots on the ground on any new-build project, Haskell’s in-house civil-site engineers give clients an accelerated start on achieving an accurate, cost-effective design and certainty of outcome.
Haskell’s integrated design-build model enables civil-site engineers’ prompt involvement.
“We have a sense of early arrival into the project to help partner with the customer and permitting agencies to fast-track the schedule and get a real jumpstart on the overall design,” said Kevin Crump, Chief Civil Engineer.
Early deployment of civil-site engineering resources saves time and money and helps prevent surprises in the future about site development complexities and associated cost.
Haskell’s engineers work closely with customers to understand their unique site needs, such as special considerations for utility demands, parking, trucking aprons, docks, and support buildings.
Then, to support the facility’s function, the team develops the overall site plan in partnership with the architect.
Civil-site engineers are responsible for engineering the land around the building. This includes the grading, careful management of storm water, utilities, and the associated infrastructure.
Every project starts with a design-development phase, in which civil-site engineers meet with local authorities like the city engineer, planning and zoning staff and wastewater authority.
“We digest their requirements and boil it down into a permitting matrix to educate the project team,” said Crump.
In order to secure permits, Haskell’s engineers must produce a geometric layout of the site plan, grading and elevation schemes, erosion control documents, construction documents and integration with site utilities.
There is also coordination with other engineers. The structural team needs to know the exterior grades so it can design the foundations. Civil engineers work with mechanical engineers on the placement of central energy plants and with plumbing engineers to connect utilities.
After obtaining permits, construction can begin.
“A lot of civil engineers aren’t involved in construction,” Crump said. “We’re able to partner with the construction team to assure a smooth delivery. This is unique to Haskell.”
Crump cites “Project Jupiter” as an example of Haskell’s ability to deliver speed-to-market.
Project Jupiter was a 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center in Southern California. Because it has an integrated civil team, Haskell was able to deploy an engineer to California to work out a vast number of permits, many of which were environmentally complex.
In addition to navigating environmental matters, such as endangered species and protected lands, engineers had to perform a ground-sifting procedure on what was once a World War II bombing range to remove unexploded ordinance.
The permitting process took two years, but it could have taken longer with a third-party civil engineer.
“Having an in-house civil engineer allowed the owner transparency,” Crump said. “There was a full understanding of what fiscal resources it was going to take to successfully achieve a permit just to start construction.”
Haskell’s civil-site engineers must stay abreast of ever-evolving trends, both in environmental consciousness and design software.
Environmentally conscious design has increased over the past five years, Crump said. There are many proprietary products designed to filter out contaminants underground to reduce the pollutants in stormwater. Some of these include separator or vortex units that use circular flow to set apart particulates in the runoff.
3D design software is another area of continued innovation. Instead of drawing two-dimensional designs with red pencils, hand calculators and 45-degree templates as they did 10 years ago, engineers now accelerate execution with computer modeling.
Crump credits STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for equipping young engineers with technical ability, which is a benefit to the industry.
“They’ve grown up in the digital era, where they’re very comfortable with technology and software,” he said. “There’s a trend where we’re getting a greater interest from students with more technical aptitude. I’m excited about the new generation of engineers.”
Haskell delivers $2± billion annually in Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and Consulting solutions to assure certainty of outcome for complex capital projects worldwide. Haskell is a global, fully integrated, single-source design-build and EPC firm with over 2,400 highly specialized, in-house design, construction and administrative professionals across industrial and commercial markets. With 25+ office locations around the globe, Haskell is a trusted partner for global and emerging clients.
Bring up climate change in a large room, and you’ll likely get a variety of opinions – perhaps even an argument or two, some...
The source of many complaints and a great risk for sanitation and safety, temperature and humidity (T&H) control in...
Walk the halls of Haskell’s Jacksonville, Florida, headquarters and you’ll see all the signs of a thriving design and construction...
With an assist from Haskell Steel, a team of senior civil engineering students from the University of North Florida (UNF)...
The beverage industry has undergone significant evolution since Haskell performed the first of more than 1,000 jobs for...
In the evolving world of civil engineering, innovation is the driving force behind progress. Haskell Civil Engineers...
The design team has been working hard for months and has developed an excellent drawing and specification package. The...
Editor’s note: Haskell.com is celebrating Engineers Week 2023 by leveraging the expertise of our nearly 200 engineers...
Editor’s note: Haskell.com is celebrating Engineers Week 2023 by leveraging the expertise of our nearly 200 engineers...
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Commissioning is a systematic process of ensuring, verifying, and documenting...
Pharmacy requirements are evolving, and requirements for the physical spaces that pharmacies occupy have tightened...
Electricity is the lifeblood of virtually every facility. Whether it’s the heating, cooling and network operations of...
Haskell structural engineers Mary Shinners and John O’Brien will present topics of great personal interest as the National...
Robbie Isaac didn’t become a mechanical engineer to collect accolades or serve as a role model, but, as it turns out, she...
High-quality design has a profound ability to affect our experience and perception of space. In addition to helping providers...
I am often approached by healthcare facilities regarding soiling or staining on their furniture, cracked upholstery,...
We as humans are configured a certain way. We all have the same systems – like circulatory, digestive, nervous – that work...
As recently as 100 years ago, lawyers, notaries, and others were performing the work of engineers despite their lack of...
Whether it’s creating the communication and automation systems that allow the smooth operation of packaging machinery...
Haskell’s structural engineering team helps clients solve unique challenges – such as designing an explosion room or...
Editor’s note: Haskell is proud to join its more than 650 design professionals in celebrating Engineers Week. Founded...
Editor’s note: Haskell is proud to join its more than 650 design professionals in celebrating Engineers Week. Founded...
Editor’s note: Haskell is proud to join its more than 650 design professionals in celebrating Engineers Week. Founded...
Editor’s note: Haskell is proud to join its more than 650 design professionals in celebrating Engineers Week. Founded...
COVID-19 has forced the healthcare world into uncharted territory. Protecting patients from those who are contagious...
As Chief Mechanical Engineer for Haskell, Matt Ford is responsible for ensuring that the systems supporting facility...
Fundamentally, it’s the responsibility of engineers to ensure that a design is safe and meets all appropriate codes. But...
From its very beginning, the partnership between Benham, a Haskell Company, and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation...
Matt Ford, Haskell’s Chief Mechanical Engineer, is the 2020 winner of the company’s Engdahl Award, given annually to a...
The public health crisis of the past nine months has shone a spotlight on the tireless care that doctors, nurses, and other...
With such a profound shift in how to conduct business in a pandemic, determining how to conduct tasks in a sustainable way...
In my previous blog, I discussed the clash prevention process and how Haskell is using that to advance our designs and deliverables....
It has been almost 115 years since the first professional engineering license was issued to Charles Bellamy. Today, the...
As August began, most Haskell interns returned to their respective schools with new skills, new stories and new experiences...
For Emily Moseley, engineering isn’t only a job. Inspired by a former teacher and mentor, Moseley discovered her interest...
The last few months have brought forth many discussions surrounding the effects of COVID-19, both current and long-lasting....
While emergency departments and critical care units have been inundated with patients due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many...
As we define our new normal based on our COVID-19 experience, each of our perspectives will begin to shape healthcare design...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted a lot of focus and evaluation to the design of the contemporary hospital patient room....
Haskell and geotechnical partner Building and Earth Sciences will receive a National Recognition Award from the American...
As a construction manager in Haskell’s Mexico City office, Waldo Salado delivers solutions. Salado helps to lead projects...
Engineering system design and installation for behavior health spaces and buildings require a different approach than...
Reliable medical gas and vacuum systems are at the pinnacle of patient care. They provide life-supporting gases that are...
Preventing infections is a challenge in any emergency department. In particular, communicable infections like tuberculosis,...
Most hospital facilities we work with have chilled water system issues. These issues tend to manifest as hot offices, unstable...
Many hospital facilities receive a plethora of “too hot/too cold” complaints from staff. Maintenance personnel may have...
With the recent reports of Legionella in the news, many facility managers wonder if an outbreak could happen at their hospital....
Now that you’ve defined your business opportunity in Step One of our How to Build a Distillery series, it’s time to assemble...
111 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32202
© 2024 Haskell. All rights reserved.
We collect basic analytics to improve your experience. No personal data is stored. By continuing to use this site, you acknowledge this. For more details, see our Privacy Policy.