Public engineering firm profile
AKS Engineering & Forestry
Tualatin, OR
Practical Solutions. Designed to Last.
- Services
- 27
- Offices
- 1
- Founded
- 1996
- Size Estimate
- 600+ employees
Overview
AKS Engineering & Forestry is a multi-discipline engineering and forestry consulting firm founded in 1996 in the Pacific Northwest, with 600-plus employees and fifteen offices across Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. AKS serves clients in the power, infrastructure, and land development markets, offering civil, structural, geotechnical, electrical, mechanical, and traffic engineering alongside surveying, landscape architecture, water resources, environmental, natural resources, forestry, construction management, and GIS services. The practice operates as a comprehensive one-stop shop for public and private project needs.
- Founded
- 1996
- Size Estimate
- 600+ employees
Services
Civil Engineering
Site design and utility engineering for development and public-sector projects across the Pacific Northwest.
Structural Engineering
Structural design for residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities, including seismic retrofit, equipment anchorage, and specialty structures.
Geotechnical Engineering
Subsurface investigations, geohazard analysis, infiltration testing, pavement design, retaining wall assessments, forensic evaluations, and soil special inspections and testing.
Electrical Engineering
Lighting system design, power distribution, low-voltage and communication systems, energy management system design, and photometric analysis and modeling.
Mechanical Engineering
HVAC system design, chilled water, steam, process piping, exhaust systems, and building load analysis and modeling.
Traffic Engineering
Transportation system planning, intersection control evaluations, parking management plans, transportation impact studies, and traffic signal and street lighting design.
Water Resources Engineering
Water treatment and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, stormwater and flood control, pump station siting and design, and pipeline rehabilitation.
Surveying
Aerial, construction, hydrographic, and land surveying services.
Landscape Architecture
Planting and irrigation plans, streetscapes, pedestrian facilities, recreational facilities, trails, open space, and park master planning.
Environmental Services
Phase I, II, and III environmental site assessments and underground storage tank evaluations.
Natural Resources
Wetland and water delineations, federal and state wetland permitting, fish and wildlife and botanical studies, critical area habitat assessments, mitigation design and monitoring, and NEPA documentation.
Consulting Arborist & Forestry
Tree inventory and assessment, protection and removal plans, tree and landscape appraisal, arborist observation, forest management planning, timber cruising and appraisal, and wildfire risk analysis and mitigation.
Land Use Planning
Site feasibility and due diligence, land use entitlements, master planning, on-call city and county planning, and long-range planning.
Construction Management
Pre-construction services, active site management, owners representative services, quality control inspections, RFI and submittal management, and project closeout.
Materials Testing
Structural concrete, pre-stressed concrete, and soil testing; aggregate laboratory and nuclear density testing; sieve analysis; and soil and aggregate proctors.
GIS
Database management, digital cartographic production, asset management data collection, ArcGIS Online web maps and apps, 3D modeling, and story map development.
BIM
Building information modeling, model-to-field layouts, lighting and device coordination, data extraction, and quantity takeoffs.
Plumbing Design
Plumbing system design for domestic water, sanitary sewer, vent, natural gas, and propane systems.