solutions for cities, authorities & Districts
Project Management
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Setting expectations and clear communications are key to success. Ascend manages the project scope, schedule, budget, and coordination with other consultants and agencies to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Ascend inspects existing infrastructure, documents findings, and recommends rehabilitation solutions to help you get ahead of problems that could disrupt your organization's ability to mitigate flood risk and/or deliver water.
Preliminary Design Studies
Physical Inspection & Rehabilitation
Final Design & Procurement Support
Ascend works with owners like you to identify and prioritize projects to ensure reliable performance and conveyance. By providing options along with their benefits, drawbacks, and associated costs, Ascend can help you narrow down your priorities and preferences before final design.
Final Design & Procurement Support
Final Design & Procurement Support
Final Design & Procurement Support
Ascend specializes in civil and structural design of storm water and water/wastewater infrastructure. Ascend performs analyses, estimates construction costs, and develops drawings and specifications to get your project construction-ready. Ascend can even guide you through the process of selecting a quality contractor to build your project.
Operations & Maintenance Plans
Final Design & Procurement Support
Operations & Maintenance Plans
If your organization is struggling with effective operations and maintaining your existing systems, Ascend can work with your staff to develop a plan to streamline how infrastructure is maintained to successfully accomplish objectives including conveyance, flood mitigation, and treatment.
Construction Oversight
Final Design & Procurement Support
Operations & Maintenance Plans
Ascend provides construction submittal reviews, inspection, administration, and reporting to ensure your project is running smoothly and in accordance with design and contract requirements.
solutions for engineering firms
Workload Management & Staff Training
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
Workload Management & Staff Training
Ascend can integrate seamlessly to help supplement and train your staff during peak workload periods so that you don't have to hire and train when you are already overwhelmed with deadlines. Plus, you won't have to worry about keeping new staff utilized if the workload tapers off.
Civil & Structural Design Analyses
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
Workload Management & Staff Training
Ascend performs global stability analyses, settlement analyses, finite element structural modeling, and reinforced concrete design for storm water and water/wastewater structures. Ascend has experience with flood control structures, siphons, dams, pump stations, lift stations, and wastewater treatment facilities and is ready and equipped to dive into the details.
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
Ascend develops construction drawings and 3D renderings using AutoCAD Civil3D software, along with civil and structural specifications and opinions of probable construction cost for projects. Whether you need help developing deliverables internally or want to delegate major components of the project, Ascend can work with you to provide quality deliverables to your clients.
Quality Control Reviews
Quality Control Reviews
Drawings, Specifications & Cost Estimates
It's always good to have a fresh set of eyes review design calculations and project deliverables. Ascend brings first hand design and construction experience and attention to detail that can help you rest assured you are providing your clients with the best.
Project Management
Quality Control Reviews
Inspection & Reporting
Trying to manage scope, schedule, budget, and coordination beyond your technical workload can be overwhelming. Ascend can keep your team on task and on budget and manage coordination efforts so you can focus your time wherever you need it most.
Inspection & Reporting
Quality Control Reviews
Inspection & Reporting
Ascend provides inspection of existing infrastructure and ongoing construction to document observations, issues, and recommendations. Ascend can assist with existing system condition assessments or ensure that construction is being completed according to your design.
solutions for contractors
Coordination
Drawings & Design
Drawings & Design
Ascend can help coordinate with owners, design engineers, material suppliers and permitting agencies to free up your staff to focus on the job site.
Drawings & Design
Drawings & Design
Drawings & Design
Ascend develops traffic control plans, storm water pollution prevention plans, and shop drawings. Ascend can also provide assistance with trench safety and care of water plans and other design calculations that may be required for your project.
Submittals
Drawings & Design
Submittals
Ascend knows what design engineers want to see in submittals and can streamline the process by getting the right information from suppliers included the first time around to keep your project on schedule.