For affordable housing developers, cash flow often matters more than cost. You carry predevelopment costs until funding closes, across layered sources with fixed deadlines. Our fee structures can follow your milestones, discussed per project.
Fee structures that can follow your funding milestones
Submittals planned around tax credit and funding deadlines
Site due diligence before you commit predevelopment funds
For market-rate developers, every month in design and permitting adds interest, taxes, and holding costs. AI-native workflows handle routine production, so we turn submittals around quickly and measure it in days to approval.
Feasibility and due diligence before you commit to a site
Entitlements, permitting, and plan check processing
For cities and public agencies, the measure is predictability: our fee held within contract and estimates that hold up at bid. Your Council, CIP director, and City Manager get clear, prompt answers from our engineers.
On-call civil, stormwater, and construction management support
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Measured on Every Project
The Numbers Behind Each Pathway
Each pathway has its own proof point, and we will publish the numbers once they are measured and dated.
Behind all three is turn-key delivery across seven disciplines, so you can bring us one discipline or the whole project. A licensed engineer reviews every deliverable.
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Capital Stack: Flexible Fees
Fee structures that can follow your entitlement and funding milestones, discussed deal by deal.
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Speed: Days to Approval
Days from our submittal to agency approval, counting our turnaround and each review cycle. [VERIFY: publish only once measured; state period]
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Fee vs. contract
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Estimate vs. bid
Predictability: Fee and Bid
Our fee against the contract amount, and our estimate against the bid. [VERIFY: publish only once measured; state period]
Seven Disciplines, Turn-Key Delivery
Bring us one discipline or the whole project. We deliver turn-key design across seven disciplines, more than civil and planning alone, with planning, civil, utility, traffic, and structural engineering coordinated from first study through closeout.
Planning & Environmental
CEQA and NEPA review, specific and master plans, entitlement tracking, and agency approvals, from early ideas to construction plans.
Site & Land Development
Grading, drainage, utilities, and plan check that turn raw land and infill sites into permitted, construction-ready projects.
Utilities & Public Works
Water, sewer, and storm drain design, lift and pump stations, pipeline rehabilitation, and capital program design for public owners.
Traffic & Transportation
Signals, signing and striping, traffic control, VMT studies, and complete streets that improve safety. [VERIFY: named licensed lead]
Structural Engineering
Retaining walls and shoring, foundations, bridges and culverts, and seismic retrofits, coordinated with the civil design. [VERIFY: named licensed lead]
Construction & Contract Management
Constructability review, inspection, RFI and submittal tracking, change order control, and labor compliance through closeout.
Program Management
Owner-side management of multi-year capital programs: scheduling, budget control, funding compliance, and reporting.
Impact: [field: measured outcome, e.g., homes entitled, linear feet of storm drain, grant dollars delivered on time]
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We are ceaselessly pursuing projects which affect the public we serve — housing for all and modernizing aging infrastructure.
Brian Nieckula, Founder Statement (Q1-2025)
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Credentials and Affiliations
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) No. 20938643 [VERIFY: certificate status and renewal date]
On-call rosters: Newport Beach, Pomona, Hermosa Beach, South El Monte, Glendale, and Cerritos [VERIFY: each current and approved for listing]
Registered Civil Engineers on staff, including RCE 87484 and RCE 45227 [VERIFY: P.E. titles and license status]
Tell Us About Your Project
A tax credit deadline, a market-rate site, or a capital project: tell us what you are working on, and an engineer will reply within [VERIFY: published response standard].