Proudly headquartered in Hillsborough, NC, Summit has faithfully provided our clients in North Carolina and beyond with over 25 years of engineering excellence. Our intimate familiarity with the region affords us the unique opportunity to invest in working with municipalities to create projects that serve their needs on a local scale. That’s why Summit has several team members have attended Locally Administered Projects Program (LAPP) workshops and who are well-versed in collaborating with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) on LAPP projects across the State, including CMAQ projects.
We believe in investing in projects that serve our local municipalities. To this end, we constantly seek to build partnerships with clients who shape and influence our communities for the better. For that, there’s no better partner than the multiple municipalities we have worked alongside throughout the Southeast. Together, we can achieve a joint vision of municipal projects that thoughtfully enhance the built environment in a way everyone can enjoy. By investing in our communities, we ensure a safer, healthier, and more sustainable future for all localities, big and small, throughout our region.
At A Glance.
Other Services
Architecture
Summit’s Architecture department uses the art and science of architecture to enrich the built environment, ensuring that all aspects of the design process account for the needs and desires of the client.
Our responses to today’s design challenges are rooted in teamwork, experience, innovation, and devotion to our craft. We want the designs we produce to serve the communities where we live and work. That’s why our department collaborates with experts across multiple disciplines, working alongside engineers to provide our clients with full-service solutions to their project’s needs.
Architecture
CMT/SI
Integrity and transparency are the foundational values of our Construction Materials Testing (CMT) and Special Inspections (SI) team. The key to a resilient, safety-first project is ensuring the highest quality construction materials and methods are used. Our accredited materials testing laboratory can perform tests per state and municipal standards while also providing dependable and consistent results that owners and contractors can rely on.
Summit emphasizes cultivating a collaborative and diverse experience among our team members to ensure we can help you deliver an impactful project. We pursue excellence in every aspect of our work so that our project delivery exceeds expectations. Our reputation depends on it.
Our team of certified and cross-certified inspectors and technicians throughout the southeast and Atlantic coast maintain various industry-leading certifications through the American Concrete Institute, the American Welding Society, the International Code Council, and the State of North Carolina DOT.
CMT/SI
Geotechnical Engineering
A project’s foundation is the key to its resiliency. With thousands of regional site evaluations and years of experience in the field, Summit’s geotechnical engineering team is more than ready to provide the knowledge and expertise needed to establish that foundation.
Our highly experienced geotechnical engineers, geologists, and drillers can provide comprehensive geotechnical engineering services to any project you may have, ensuring that your project has a reliable base to build upon.
Geotechnical Engineering
Landscape Architecture
Our team of landscape architects dedicate themselves to beautiful, functional, and sustainable landscape designs. We use a signature design approach to ensure that the landscapes we design for our clients are site-specific and meet every project’s unique needs. Our work enhances our client’s quality of life by developing purposeful and resilient connections to nature, enhancing their vision and creating a lasting impact.
Our team’s passion for integrating the natural environment into modern projects drives our landscape designs. We offer the full scope of landscape architectural services associated with this task, such as planning, design, and development. We have firsthand knowledge of the implementation and management of design processes, making us qualified to develop beautiful and uplifting aesthetic plans for municipalities and private interests alike.
Landscape Architecture
Land Development
From obtaining the necessary entitlements to performing quality due diligence, the Summit land development team has the power to align a client’s vision with the community’s standards. We strive to bring about excellent, synergetic results that unite both private and municipal requirements and desires to produce results that everybody can enjoy. Our resilient and long-lasting designs aim to address both challenging site constraints and local ordinance requirements.
Summit’s land development team approaches every project with collaboration in mind. We engage in multi-disciplinary cooperation, ensuring we create innovative, comprehensive solutions to meet project goals.
Land Development
Industrial Coatings
Summit believes that structures should be built to last. That’s why our team of NACE, SSPC, and AAMP-certified coatings professionals are dedicated to providing our clients with modern, high-quality industrial coatings services that significantly improve the longevity of their projects.
Our industrial coatings specialists are highly trained with unique certifications that few others possess. This includes the SSPC Protective Coating Specialist (PCS) certification, the highest achievement a coatings specialist can earn. Our services have had us working with public and private sector clients all over the country, ensuring that their infrastructure is safe and long-lasting. We can work on various materials, including multiple kinds of steel or concrete, to improve transportation structures so they can continue serving communities safely and effectively.
Industrial Coatings
Planning
When it comes to the Summit Planning department, our primary goal first and foremost is to listen. Communities know what they want; it’s our job to translate their vision into reality. Our team creates the foundation of our plans by combining inclusive and innovative engagement processes with thorough data analysis. In this way, our department is able to capture the needs, desires, and goals of each and every municipality we work with.
Our practical understanding of local government and multi-disciplinary expertise is leveraged with each plan to produce actionable recommendations that help communities shape a resilient future. Together with our clients, we can create better, brighter communities—ones that will benefit us now and will continue to thrive long into the future.
Planning
Structural Engineering
At the heart of Summit’s Structural Engineering services is our firm belief that diverse partnerships deliver resilient and impactful projects. Our team of structural engineers understand this better than anyone, which is why we have developed a strongly collaborative approach to designing infrastructure for our communities. Our team’s versatility and technical expertise means that we are able to overcome any challenges that may arise during project delivery. We strive to provide structures that are both striking and resilient, exceeding client goals and expectations on every project we undertake.
Our extensive commercial, industrial, and institutional experience lends itself to our project process, enhancing our understanding of the project goals. We are able to deliver value-saving alternatives and sustainable engineering solutions to your project so that you can be confident in its quality and cost-effectiveness. Together, we can build a resilient and innovative future for our communities.
Structural Engineering
Survey & Geomatics
Surveying has been a core service of Summit since our firm’s very inception. This long history enhances our unique perspective on surveying and the impact it has on other disciplines, allowing us to work cohesively with the other service departments to deliver comprehensive, full-service projects to our clients. The Summit Geomatics department provides surveying services tailored to private and public clients for a variety of projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. Our advanced technical capabilities combined with decades of experience positions us to collect, analyze, and interpret survey data efficiently and efficiently so that we can meet even the most aggressive schedule.
We bring our best to every project to ensure that our clients have the most accurate and up-to-date data to work with. That’s why Summit’s Survey and Geomatics team utilizes state-of-the-art equipment that allows us to collect the most accurate information and high-definition surveys. We also provide survey verification services utilizing the latest technology, so that we can verify contractor-performed construction staking is thorough and accurate.
Our services include wet utilities, drainage structures, pipe culverts, culvert and wall structures, bridges, and sign S-dimensions. We also verify roadway staking including slope stakes, fine grades, blue tops, and curb and gutter. We take pride in knowing that the validating information we provide goes on to become the foundation for projects that improve our communities.
Survey & Geomatics
Water Resources
At Summit, we’re dedicated to our goal of providing design and modeling solutions that our clients can count on. That’s why our water resources team strives to deliver resilient, sustainable solutions that address the needs of our client’s projects, all while seamlessly integrating these systems into the adjacent ecology and infrastructure.
Our water resources team takes a collaborative approach to design, working hand-in-hand with other disciplines to ensure the hydraulic systems we deliver are both efficient and cost-effective. From roadside ditches to FEMA-regulated stream crossings, our team has the experience needed to provide innovative and integrative solutions to challenging design roadblocks.
Water Resources
Maintenance Management
Our construction and engineering maintenance management team understands how vital transportation infrastructure is for a community’s well-being. Our communities rely on the roads that bind us together, and we strive to keep that infrastructure healthy and functional. We approach each problem or challenge with an innovative and responsive mindset, developing solutions aimed at keeping our infrastructure functional and safe. Our all-encompassing approach to maintenance management, including our advanced inspection, monitoring, and reporting capabilities, accomplishes this goal.
We know projects must be appropriately maintained to serve our communities, and maintenance management is the primary way to make that goal a reality. Through partnering with us, our clients can create the resilient, adaptive infrastructure that our modern worlds need to thrive.
