1. Transportation and Highway Engineering: Including, but not limited to: roadway widening projects, paving existing dirt roads, new roadway design, intersection improvements, traffic calming, pavement section design, right of way acquisition coordination, construction management, material testing and inspection, utility coordination, subsurface utility engineering, and evaluation of safety complaints; all in accordance with Lexington County, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) standards and all other means necessary. 2. Structural Engineering: Including, but not limited to, the design of structural repairs for bridges, design of new structures such as retaining walls, culverts, bridges, structural steel and wood structures, and inspections. All structural engineering shall be completed in accordance with professional engineering standards such as those published by FHWA, AASHTO, American Standards for Testing and Materials (ASTM), International Code Council (ICC), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and SCDOT and all other necessary standards. 3. Traffic Engineering: Including, but not limited to, analysis of existing traffic conditions, traffic calming recommendations, evaluation of traffic related complaints; development of signing and pavement marking plans; maintenance of traffic plans; preparation of traffic impact studies; and review of traffic studies prepared by others. Traffic engineering assignments shall be completed in accordance with professional engineering standards defined by local, state and federal law, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), manuals and best management practices of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Highway Capacity Manual, and SCDOT policies and procedures as well as all other means necessary. 4. Geotechnical Engineering: Including, but not limited to subsurface exploration, soil boring, material sampling, testing, analysis, and recommendation related to excavation, slope stability, infiltration, groundwater, retaining structures, compaction, gradation, and pavement section design and evaluation. Geotechnical engineering assignments shall be completed in accordance with professional engineering standards such as those published by AASHTO, ASTM, ICC, and SCDOT and all other necessary means. 5. Stormwater & Environmental Engineering: Including, but not limited to, hydraulic/hydrologic engineering using standard computation methodology and computer modeling, in accordance with, but not limited to: Lexington County, SC, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) standards, policies and procedures. Scope may include, but is not limited to, storm drainage system design and evaluation, waterway analysis to support culvert and bridge design, evaluation of drainage complaints, development of sediment and erosion control measures, other related activities, wetland delineation, permitting and mitigation, archaeological, endangered species and any other regulatory permitting requirements.
