Problem Solver
Land Development
Water Resources
With 28 years in the industry over a variety of sectors and regions, civil engineering professional at your service.
Based in San Antonio, Texas since 2012. Have delivered projects in AK, WA, ID, MI.
Our sole mission is to provide qualified technical consulting, whether by ZRD or other teams' expertise aligned with your project requirements.
Water Resources
Land Development
Water Resources
Much of Frank's career has been spent planning and designing infrastructure for water, wastewater, drainage and flood control projects.
His breadth of experience ranges from rural Alaska water supply and treatment innovations for challenging groundwater to commercial, educational and public-safety development across Texas, to metro multi-discipline team leadership.
Land Development
Land Development
Land Development
From entitlement through construction closeout, we draw from experience completing projects of all sizes to help our clients navigate the many technical and regulatory hurdles.
Have delivered civil engineering services on many Architect-led projects; multifamily, city hall, fire stations, hotels, educational, cold storage warehousing and light industrial.
Technology
Land Development
Land Development
Tap into out expertise building computer models for flood mitigation and urban drainage systems with GIS-enhanced HEC, EPA, Bentley or other software, spatial analysis to aggregate data for tasks such as utility feasibility or land acquisition research and planning.
Frank is an Autodesk Civil 3D expert, can deliver staff training tailored
Tap into out expertise building computer models for flood mitigation and urban drainage systems with GIS-enhanced HEC, EPA, Bentley or other software, spatial analysis to aggregate data for tasks such as utility feasibility or land acquisition research and planning.
Frank is an Autodesk Civil 3D expert, can deliver staff training tailored to your team's needs and project use-cases. Custom CADD routines and Dynamo workflows, GIS plugins, scripts and GUI in Python or C++. Collaboration welcome!
H&H and Flood Protection Engineering
Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering
- Flood protection planning and mitigation - technical and economic studies
- Drainage analysis, reporting and permitting for municipal and private projects.
- Floodplain Development Permits (single lot to large project, Texas-wide)
- Urban piped system modeling, detention, timing analysis, pumping, pre-post development design and optimization.
- Bridge and culvert hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
- Watershed Modeling - Flood or Water Supply (Texas wide, Select U.S. regions, South America)
- HEC-RAS 1D & 2D, EPA-SWMM, GIS, Statistical Analysis
- Independent Review - modeling, feasibility, cost (BCA loss and capital improvements), constructability, PS&E technical review.
FEMA / Regulatory Mapping
- Letters of Map Revision (CLOMR, LOMR, LOMA)
- Base Flood Elevation (BFE) evaluations
- No-Rise Certificates
- Preliminary Modeling / Development Feasibility, Encroachment Analysis
- Atlas 14 Update Studies
TxDOT Precertifications
- 9.3.1 - Pedestrian Facility Design
- 10.1.1 - Hydrologic Studies
- 10.2.1 - Roadway Hydraulic Design
- 10.4.1 - Storm Water Pump Station - Hydraulic Design
- 10.8.1 - FEMA Regulations and Permits
Consultant Support
Sole practitioner structure allows Frank to offer his broad expertise with a flexible approach focused on value-add "partner collaboration" as a resource. A consultant's consultant with an unbiased independent opinion, feasibility and risk assessment support, team capacity augmentation, personalized staff training, QA/QC and 3rd Party reviews, back-up permitting / modeling troubleshooting or full task support.