Reid Middleton

Serving airport clients for more than 40 years, our team of engineers, planners, and surveyors understands the complexity involved in planning, project management, permitting, design, and construction of airfields and aviation structures. Citizens depend on functioning roadways, reliable public structures, and a cohesive infrastructure that works together to enable our busy and productive lives. Because we live, work and play in the same cities and towns as our clients, we are passionate about roadway, utility infrastructure, and civic government design.

Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services to public and private sector clients. We work on projects as large as international airports and regional federal procurements and as small as a neighborhood park structure. What ties all of our disciplines together is the way we think about our projects. A building is more than concrete and steel. An airfield is more than pavement and lighting. And a pier is more than piling and decking. Each one represents the needs of the people who use them every day.

An alternative delivery method to traditional design-bid-build is design-build (D-B), a process that requires the design team and builder to work together from a project's start to its completion. Since the design team and contractor work simultaneously on the design of the project, the built solution often is more efficient with fewer risks. Owners need to trust the D-B team to successfully move through the complex details. With more than 16 years of providing D-B engineering and construction administration services on projects ranging from construction value of only a few million dollars to large, $250 million projects, our engineering staff understand how to work with contractors to make D-B projects successful.

Every now and then opportunities come along that touch us personally, and we feel compelled to be a part of so profoundly, that our staff get involved. STEM education is critically important to today's and tomorrow's economy. Much has been written about this subject in leading publications and the need for more STEM educated people in the workforce in the future. As much as we'd like to just. Back in late 2004, we received a unique opportunity. The American Institute of Architecture (AIA) Seattle branch was looking for structural engineers to help architects review for their licensing exams.

It's pretty common for people here to feel that coming to the office is like going home - it's part of your day; it's part of your life. Working here, you'll have the opportunity to do many things. People are encouraged to find new ways to do things and to look for opportunities that interest them. There are stories of friendships borne of untold hours working together on massive projects, slogging through slug and caterpillar infested forests, mentoring of junior staff by senior staff, harrowing plane rides to remote airstrips, long summer days during construction season, walking under the wing of a 737 to watch the behavior of the pavement under its colossal load, middle of the night consultations to repair a school watermain, seeing snakes and screaming in the field while checking a base map, nearly going into the drink while examining piling during a storm in a tiny boat, and finding a hidden room in the basement of a 100 year-old building.

Reid Middleton is experienced in leading large multi-disciplinary contracts (approximately 20 percent of our work is subcontracted to team partners). We manage our subconsultant team members like our in-house team members, working together closely to achieve project goals. We regularly pursue the use of subconsultants on projects when we are the prime consultant and have historically met or exceeded diverse business subcontracting goals for our work. We team with diverse firms for a variety of services, including environmental, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical engineering; hazardous waste remediation services; transportation planning; and pavement design.