Public engineering firm profile
Herndon, VA
Sustainable Solutions
Pons & Associates, LLC is a geotechnical, environmental, and construction materials engineering consulting practice headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and beyond. It provides geotechnical engineering, construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET), construction-phase instrumentation, special inspections, and geo-environmental consulting for public and private sector clients. Core competencies include subsurface investigations for urban and brownfield settings, foundation engineering, environmental site assessments, radon mitigation design, and environmental regulatory compliance. Established in 2010, the practice operates with licensed civil engineers serving as engineers-of-record across Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia jurisdictions.
Provides underground engineering solutions from concept planning through design and construction phases.
Delivers field testing, quality control observation, and instrumentation services during construction.
Offers environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance assessments.
Assesses facilities and infrastructure assets to support real estate transactions and long-term asset management.
2015 | Tysons Corner, VA | Fairfax County | Parks & Open Space
Geotechnical engineering and special inspections during the design and construction phases of the Jones Branch Athletic Fields and Arbor Row Stream Valley Park, supporting the urban transformation of Tysons Corner.
View project sourceStrasburg, VA | Wastewater
Geotechnical engineering services supporting upgrades to the municipal wastewater treatment plant.
View project sourceWashington, DC | Wastewater
Geotechnical engineering support services for the major advanced wastewater treatment facility.
View project source2012 | Tysons Corner, VA | Land Development
Geotechnical investigations for high-rise development sites, a key part of the local urban center transformation.
View project sourceWashington, DC | Government
Geotechnical investigation and construction monitoring services for a chancery building.
View project source2012 | Largo, MD | Land Development
Geotechnical investigation and seismic study for the town center development.
View project sourceWashington, DC | DC Public Schools | Education
Infill geotechnical investigations conducted across multiple school facility locations.
View project sourceWashington, DC | Historic Preservation
Vibration and sound instrumentation services to monitor and protect a historic building during nearby construction activities.
View project sourcePrincipal
P.E.
Fernando is the founding principal of Pons & Associates, focusing on sustainable geo-engineering, geotechnical design, and underground risk management. He has presented on sustainable infrastructure at ASCE and civil engineering conferences.
Associate
P.E.
Liz has been with the practice since 2011, specializing in geotechnical engineering services for projects in congested urban environments, including high-rise development, embassy buildings, and slope stability repair. She holds engineering degrees from Lehigh University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Director of Client Partnerships
Virginia leads client partnerships and business development. She played a key role in launching the practice and has over two decades of experience in driving growth and strategic relationships.
presentation | Fernando Pons | 2016
View publicationPons & Associates' place on this project team has saved me a great deal of time and worry and has saved the owner and the contractor from near-certain costly mistakes and problems.
On a recent project in Manhattan we were asked to do additional testing for lead in drinking water. ...the level of difficulty was significant. With Pons & Associates' intuitive thinking we were able to locate the origin of higher lead...
Pons & Associates has been a key contributor to our Design-Build team. Their discovery [of razed development dating from 1926-1956] helped the Design-Build team identify and mitigate previously unknown construction risks.
The Pons team brings extraordinary professionalism, unique talent and substantial experience. Pons & Associates has been proactive, deadline- and budget-driven, and very innovative.