…every bit of our broad experience is brought to bear on your project to ensure that your next expansion, new facility, or upgrade to your current operation — whatever your vision — becomes a reality
Commercial Development
From grease interceptors for a new restaurant to a broad expanse of pavement, landscaping, public road improvements, and stormwater facilities to support a multi-acre airport parking facility; from a couple of additional paved parking stalls supporting a conversion of a residence into a commercial office or retail space to relocation of an existing stormwater pond in order to more effectively accommodate heavy commercial site operations, every bit of our broad experience is brought to bear on your project to ensure that your next expansion, new facility, or upgrade to your current operation — whatever your vision — becomes a reality.
APCE was started in the Northwest by a Northwest native. In a region with high standards for managing stormwater and a strong emphasis on low-impact solutions for stormwater, growing up in this region – the company and the founder – has allowed a thorough understanding of those priorities to soak into the APCE-approach to design. Knowing the demands of the region and the priorities of the jurisdictions allows us to chart the right course for your development that ensures that it functions the way you need it to while meeting the City, County, and State’s standards. At the end of the day, given all of the complexity and hassle in those standards, it is our priority and our privilege to be able to assist you in getting what you expect your project to be through the permitting process so that you can build it and your organization.
We look forward to preparing you and your project for initial meetings with the city or county, utility district or state staff to determine what they will require of your project.
Before you purchase a new piece of property or while you’re considering how to expand operations on your current site, let us review your plans to help you understand and quantify the other features, utilities, and restrictions you will want to consider before you begin.
Laying out your development to give you the greatest use of the space that you have available and balancing that with the infrastructure that your project will require is always the best option. Let us help you so that you have those answers as early in the process as possible.
Stormwater solutions are most often at the core of our design. The size and type of stormwater facilities that any new development will need can have significant impacts on the cost of a project and the amount of space that is available to do what you really intend to do with your site. We know how to help you to ensure that you have all of these questions thoroughly addressed.
A requirement for every project that requires drainage review, low-impact (LID) stormwater features can offer credits to reduce the size of any other stormwater facilities that may be required for your project. A well-thought-through set of solutions can have positive impacts for your project and reduce the regional impact on streams, rivers, and other conveyance systems.
Whether you’re fortunate enough to be developing a level piece of property or have significant concerns to deal with on a steep property, we will work with you to generate a smart design that ensures that you can work within that topography to build the project that you envisioned.
Road widening, curbs, gutters, ADA-compliant curb ramps and accessible routes, public utilities, landscaping strips, driveway aprons, and stormwater ditches may all be required by the jurisdiction reviewing your development. We have experience evaluating existing conditions, determining precisely what your jurisdiction will require, and preparing the design and construction drawings that your project will require.
Where the stormwater runoff goes after it leaves your property and the impacts that it has can be a significant concern to you, to neighboring property owners, and to the jurisdiction that those properties are in. We can evaluate conditions in the field, design options for improving the off-site stormwater system so that it functions the way that it should, or provide stricter controls on your property so that your project won’t have significant impacts to downstream properties.
Whether you need a complete stormwater report or merely a written drainage assessment or a technical letter addressed to the jurisdiction in charge of issuing permits for your project, we can prepare that for you.
Whether the existing public streets that serve your property are in the wrong location or do not have the capacity to serve the amount of traffic or type of vehicles that your development will require, we have the experience to design the improvements to pavements, amenities, and utilities that those roads consist of and to ensure that they are sized correctly and laid out appropriately to serve the passenger vehicles, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, semi-trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles that will be traveling to and from your facility.
If your project doesn’t have immediate access to public water, sewer, or stormwater facilities or if the existing facilities need to be upgraded to serve your new project, we are very well versed in the requirements for designing and permitting extensions of those public facilities.
Whether roads or pavement for parking or access; pervious or impervious pavements; concrete, asphalt, or a system of pavers, we are ready and experienced with these systems so that we can incorporate them into the design of your project.
Whenever soil is exposed over the course of improving a property, features are necessary to prevent soil from eroding and being transported off of your property. We have prepared erosion control designs for projects of all types, from small to large, from simple to complex.
If your project exceeds the thresholds for requiring the State Department of Ecology Permit related to controlling erosion during construction, we have prepared the NOI’s, SWPPP’s, and public notices that your project will require.
If your project is required to have a SEPA checklist prepared, we have prepared many of them for jurisdictions throughout the region.
If you need to have a pylon or monument sign installed and have a new or existing foundation and the sign supports analysed, we have the experience to do that for you.
Should you find yourself in need of experts in design, permitting, and standard engineering practice, we are ready to offer our knowledge.
Client Feedback.
Lori
AP Consulting Engineers provided me with nothing less than exceptional service. When in dire need of a civil engineer, Adam Paul was prepared to address both expected and unexpected issues which initially prevented me from obtaining a permit approval from King County's Department of Permitting. His expertise in drainage and land development; knowledge in Washington State's and King County's building standards and requirements; and his overall collaborative approach in providing me with a TIR report in one day's time, has helped me to finally obtain the approval I needed from King County and quickly. As a result, I am back on track with my building schedule, on my way to breaking ground, and will soon will be building my dream home. I would highly recommend AP Consulting to help anyone in need of a professional civil engineer for their project. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Lori, Client