Site Work Planning & Design
Site work design involves planning and designing a multi-faceted construction project. Planning must consider local codes and zoning, environmental constraints, and various layers of permitting. Design involves grading plans, drainage designs, stormwater runoff detention and treatment, and utility placement. MC Civil Engineering works closely with the client to help them realize their development goals.
Site Work Design Benefits
Engineered plans and specifications from design to permitting to construction.
Work closely with various architects, engineers, and contractors for project advancement and completion.
Responsive to client, regulatory agency, and contractor requests throughout the entire site work process.
How it Works
Meet with the client to determine their development goals.
Develop a conceptual design and review/revise the design based on client feedback. If the client has retained an architect at this point, ensure coordination of design with architectural plans.
Proceed with the site work design once the conceptual design has been approved. Work with team architects, outside agencies, and other engineers throughout the process to ensure the proper layout of required elements.
Submit site work plans and specifications to the relevant regulatory agency for necessary permits. This includes the initial grading permit and any applicable construction permits that may be needed once construction begins.
Commercial, Agricultural & Residential
MC Civil Engineering can help you realize your development goals, from wineries to ranch access roads to private estates. We are experienced in collaborating with architects and other engineers to develop plans and specifications that facilitate efficient permitting and eventual construction. We provide inspections throughout the construction process and are readily available for any Requests for Information (RFIs) that may arise. Our main goal is to see the client's vision become a reality.
Grading Design & Permitting
Grading designs provide such specifications as road plans/profiles/sections and building pad finish grade elevations. The design must also consider surface water flow to create a drainage system. Site construction generally requires a grading permit complete with plans and specifications before work can commence. MC Civil Engineering provides grading design and permitting services for various development projects.
Roads, Driveways & Parking Lots
Road plans include plan, profile, and sections views as well as construction specifications. Parking lots are designed to balance aesthetics and capacity at a proposed site. We oftentimes work with geotechnical engineers to develop a soils report and determine the appropriate structural cross section design. MC Civil Engineering can develop the plans and specifications needed to construct your next road project - from ranch access roads to winery driveways and parking lots.
Drainage Design
Drainage design must consider the expected surface water flows and specify how these flows will be conveyed offsite to prevent ponding and flooding. The design can include ditches and swales that convey surface water flows to an inlet/pipe/outlet structure system. Subsurface drainage may be necessary for sites with poorly drained soils underlying heavily irrigated areas. MC Civil Engineering has extensive experience designing both surface and subsurface drainage systems.
Stormwater Runoff Detention and Treatment
Many municipalities require development plans to include facilities that detain and treat pollutants conveyed by surface water flows. The Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA) specifies that such facilities must reduce pollutant sources, mitigate surface runoff rates and volumes, and treat such runoff before leaving the site. A Stormwater Control Plan (SCP) is generally required to demonstrate compliance and may include the design of bioretention facilities and other Low Impact Development (LID) designs. MC Civil Engineering can help you navigate the BASMAA requirements and produce LID designs to meet and/or exceed these requirements.