Your project will be impacted profoundly by the work of the geoscience (or "geo-environmental") consultant. Apex's team of professional engineers and staff are uniquely experienced to understand the impact our services have on each client's project. Within an overall framework of accepted practice and standards of care, Apex is committed to minimize the costs of each constructed facility by considering the interrelationships of schedules, site work, seasonal limitations, alternate foundation types, construction documents, and acceptance criteria for materials and workmanship.
You will be in good company with Apex! Your project, and its design and construction teams can benefit from our successful record of thousands of projects throughout the Ark-La-Tex, from Houston and the Gulf Coast, to the Rio Grande Valley, to El Paso, to Waco and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metorplex, the Texas Panhandle, and into Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Projects for owners and design-build clients we have been privileged to serve include: regional and international constructors; large retail grocers and home material suppliers; large freezers, food processing plants, feed lots, and perishable distribution centers; multi-story hospitals, parking garages, and university buildings; waste water treatment plants; elevated and ground-storage water supply tanks; power plants; plywood and other raw materials processing plants; railroad tank car manufacturing and refurbishing plants; state departments of transortation; railways and spurs; municipal steet projects; churches; highway paving contractors; and various cities, counties, and public school districts in Texas and adjoning states.
Apex is locally-owned, with the owners being directly involved in serving Apex's clients. Apex is in the business of serving. Our goal is to serve you and help enhance your project's success, regardless of whether you are a residential architect or homeowner planning a new residence; a public school, municipality, or county board; church, or private school board; owner of a large distribution center, subdivision or shopping mall developer; a general contractor; attorney; or a contractor pursuing a major design-build contract. By being your business partner and operating within your design and construction teams, Apex has a unique opportunity to protect your capital investment, and enhance the success of your project.
Environmental assignments may include agency coordination and negotiation to determine and optimize appropriate clean-up criteria, and achieve an acceptable level of remediation. Apex environmental professionals are experienced in such critical issues.
In addition to a well-documented and defensible technical investigation, forensic consulting for litigation support requires effective communication between Apex's senior technical staff and the client's legal representatives, and excellent communication and relational skills in providing testimony. Apex engineers are experienced in investigating geotechnical failures, and are frequently called on to provide litigation support to attorneys on projects where design and/or construction problems have developed. Such assignments continue to sharpen the experience base of Apex staff, and serve the best interest of Apex clients by ensuring our continual awareness of potential problems related to various building, vessel, and facility foundation types, as affected by geology, soils, climate, and groundwater conditions.
Apex engineers and technical staff are comfortable with, and experienced in the design-build process, including major projects such as large distribution centers, manufacturing centers, and other commercial projects. Effective design-build participation requires a balanced, overall perspective of the project, unique flexibility, intense and clear communication, and responsive professionalism within a diverse "teamwork" environment. Apex engineers can benefit your design-build team with their experience in civil "site" design and construction administration, which ensures a broad perspective of the entire design and construction process.
Apex has a full-time team of approximately 85 experienced professional engineers and technicians who direct geotechnical and environmental subsurface investigations, conduct laboratory testing and analysis, and prepare geotechnical engineering and environmental reports for a variety of constructed facilities.
During construction, the value of "call-out" inspections on small projects, and resident inspection on large projects is closely related to the capabilities and experience of the field personnel, and the responsiveness and support of professional technical staff. When field problems arise, timely and appropriate decisions will be critical to the schedule and success of your project. Apex assigns seasoned, experienced technicians to each project, who are committed to assisting contractors and their subcontractors progress effectively toward completion, while protecting the owner's investment by ensuring that project specifications are satisfied.
Our commitment to you and your project Your project represents a major investment of funds, which must be prudently allocated during design, and carefully safeguarded during construction. This is Apex's ultimate responsibility to each of our clients, and we take it seriously. We believe you will find no other firm with:
- a stronger desire and commitment to serve;
- better individual and firm qualifications;
- higher integrity of individual employees; or
- better logistics of location and financial stability.
Only some of these attributes can be made evident through printed materials or electronic media; character and integrity attributes become evident only to those we are privileged to serve.
