A Range of Services Offers Support through the Entire Project Life Cycle
As a multi-discipline firm, Freese and Nichols provides a broad range of services to help its clients through every stage of the project life cycle: planning, design, program management, funding procurement, regulatory compliance, construction management, and operations and maintenance.
A select list of services offered appears below.
Civil Works/Water Resources
Planning/Design
• Floodplain management
• Stormwater master planning
• Stormwater pump station and gate design
• Dam, levee and hydraulic structures design and rehabilitation
• Dam and levee inspections, breach analyses and emergency action plans
• Riverine modeling and channel/bank stabilization designs
• Geotechnical investigations, testing and analysis
• Water resources planning and conservation
• Water rights
• Land use studies
• Street and highway design
• Bridge design
• Airfield ramp work and loading bridges
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Environmental/HTRW
Compliance/Regulatory/Permitting/PFAS Management
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
• Natural resource and watershed management
• Pollution prevention and permitting
• Section 404/10 permitting and wetlands services
• Contamination assessments and remediation
• PFAS Management
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Water/Wastewater/Reuse
Master Planning/Treatment/Utilities and Transmission
• Master planning
• Hydraulic modeling
• Water quality analysis
• Infiltration/Inflow studies
• Sanitary sewer evaluation studies
• Transmission pipelines
• Wastewater lift stations
• Treatment plants
• Industrial pretreatment
• Alternative treatment studies
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Facilities/Utilities
Planning/Design
• Master planning
• Architectural and interior design
• Charrettes
• Site development
• Design Review/QA
• Historical restoration and preservation
• Instrumentation and controls/SCADA
• Landscape architecture
• Utility relocation/design
• Right-of-Way (ROW)/easement management
• Regulatory compliance assistance
• Asset management programs
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Construction-Phase Services
Program and Construction Management
• Quality management
• Schedule management and analysis
• Site documentation/construction inspection
• Drone imagery and 3-D modeling
• Change/claim management
• Resident representation
• Risk management
• Procurement support
• Constructability reviews
• Contract administration and management
• Cost estimating
• Phasing and mobilization planning during design phase
• Commissioning and start-up
• Alternative project delivery
• Construction Inspection
• Earned value management
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Technology and Additional Services
• Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Building information modeling (BIM) systems
• Civil design/engineering
• Mechanical design/engineering
• Electrical design/engineering
• Structural design/engineering
• Geotechnical design/engineering
• Hydraulic design/engineering
• Environmental engineering
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Project Gallery
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Port Arthur and Vicinity Coastal Storm Risk Management Project
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Cavazos, formerly named Fort Hood, Architecture and Engineering Services
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Polk Environmental and Planning Services
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Sulphur River Basin Water Resources Plan
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Colorado River Levee and Baughman Slough
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Hood Stormwater Master Plan
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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North Fort Hood Drainage Study
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Hood Dam 42 Rehabilitation
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Hood Dam Assessments
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Joint Base San Antonio Building Renovations
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Joint Base San Antonio Runway Drainage Improvements
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Hood Traffic Study
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Fort Hood Tactical Facilities Maintenance
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Red River Army Depot Renovations
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers