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Engineering Excellence in Every Mile.

Summit has faithfully provided our clients with over 25 years of engineering excellence. Our intimate familiarity with the southeastern U.S. affords us the unique opportunity to invest in working with municipalities to create projects that serve their needs.

We believe in investing in projects that serve the communities where we live and work. 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 state DOT’s we have worked alongside throughout the southeast. Together, we can achieve the vision of 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.

700+ Public Sector Projects

We’ve worked on a wide variety of municipal projects, including utilities, roadways, greenways, sidewalks, signal systems, land development, and more. 

430+ Employees

50 Professional Engineers
4 Master Special Inspectors
100+ certified inspectors throughout North Carolina

Three ACEC-NC Awards in 2023

ACEC-NC 2023 Large Firm of the Year
Vertical Project Category Grand Award
Site Design Category Honor Award

Public Infrastructure Portfolio

WVDOH Earl M. Vickers Memorial Bridge

Industrial Coatings & Construction Services

NCDOT Complete 540

Construction Services, Industrial Coatings, CMT/SI & Traffic/ITS Systems.

Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Design On-Call

Traffic/ITS Systems, Land Development, Construction Services, & Planning

Gastonia Traffic Signal System Upgrade

Traffic/ITS Systems

Henderson County Commercial Boulevard Extension

Transportation Design, Water Resources

NCDOT Monroe Expressway

Construction Services, Industrial Coatings, Traffic/ITS Systems, Surveying & Geomatics, CMT/SI, and Maintenance Management

NCDOT R-4045 BR-0012 Design Build

Transportation Design, Water Resources, ITS

NCDOT Division 5 Guardrail Inspection

Maintenance Management

NCDOT I-95 / US 70 / US 74 Broadband Infrastructure

Traffic/ITS Systems

NCDOT I-485 Express Lanes Design Build

Construction Engineering & Inspection

NCDOT US 64 and NC 43/48 Interchange Roundabout (U-5947) Intersection Detail

CMT/SI, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Design, Water Resources

NCDOT B-4962 Replace Bridge 46 Over Eno River US 70 Bypass

CMT/SI, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation Design, Water Resources

Our Services

Other Services

Architecture

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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

Northern Campus Expansion (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

Summit Land Development Header featuring Building and Land Development Design

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 truck sitting in front of the Earl M. Vickers Memorial Bridge.

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

Map for the Cape Carteret CAMA Land Use Plan with Existing Land Use marked and labeled.

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

Water Resources

Structural plans for a no-rise bridge that will float to assist with flood management in the park.

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

Contact Us

Philip Becht

Senior Vice President
[email protected]
919-732-3883

Brandon Johnson, PE

Civil Engineering Department Manager
[email protected]
919-322-0115

Greg Fuller, PE

Traffic/ITS Systems Department Manager
[email protected]
919-322-0115

Kevin O’Dell, PE
Kevin O'Dell Headshot

Construction Services Department Manager
[email protected]
919-732-3883

Greg Dickey, PE

Transportation Structure Design Manager
[email protected]
919-322-0115