Collins Engineers, Inc. is an ''ENR'' Top 500 Design Firm and provides water resources, waterfront,

program management Program management deals with overseeing a group or several projects that align with a company’s organizational strategy, goals, and mission. These Project, projects, are intended to improve an Organizational performance, organization's perfo ...

and underwater engineering services to government agencies, contractors, and private sector clients. The firm was founded by Thomas J. Collins in April 1979. It is a privately held company with eighteen offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Collins Engineers, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Collins Engineers, Inc. was an early advocate for the use of professional engineers as diving inspectors in the evaluation of underwater structures. The firm provides underwater engineering services performed by in-house engineer-divers around the world to clients including the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...

and state departments of transportation. Reference manuals were developed on the subject for the

Federal Highway Administration The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program a ...

(FHWA) and National Highway Institute (NHI).

In 2006, Collins Engineers, Inc. acquired MacIntosh Engineering and Development Co. located in Auburn, California. In 2008, Collins Engineers, Inc. acquired Charles Keim & Associates, Inc. located in Boulder, Colorado.

Projects

Bridge Engineering

* Design Services for The Bloomingdale Trail/The 606, Chicago, Illinois * Climbing and Rope Access Inspections of Structures for Network Rail, London, England * SC 802 over the Beaufort River (Intracoastal Waterway), Beaufort, South Carolina * Park Island Bridge Design and Management, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina * Reconstruction of

Metra Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 train station, stati ...

Bridge No. Z-70.5 over Lake Street, Hanover Park, Illinois"ACEC of Illinois Engineering Excellence Awards,"
/ref> * Milwaukee River Parkway Bridges (North and South), Milwaukee, Wisconsin * SC 49 Bridge over the Enoree River, Laurens County, South Carolina * Virginia Avenue Bridge, Charleston, South Carolina * Emergency Underwater Inspection Following Impact at Eggner Ferry Bridge, Trigg and Marshall Counties, Kentucky * Bridge Management Database & 3-D Scanning for

Waterways Ireland Waterways Ireland (; Ulster-Scots: ''Watterweys Airlann'') is one of the six all-Ireland North/South implementation bodies established under the Belfast Agreement in 1999. It is responsible for the management, maintenance, development, and res ...

* Emergency Response to Early Spring Flooding—Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota * Rope Access and Climbing Inspections, Statewide, Montana * Post-Flood Scour Inspections, Statewide, Rhode Island * Post-

Hurricane Irene Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. The ninth tropical cyclone naming, named storm, first hurricane, and first major ...

Scour Inspections, New Jersey and Massachusetts

Construction

* Wells Street Bascule Bridge Reconstruction, Chicago, Illinois * Rehabilitation of Juneau and Wisconsin Avenue Lift Bridges, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * EJ&E Bridge Roll-In Design, Morris, Illinois"2012 EEA National Recognition Awards," ''Engineering Inc.'', May/June 2012, 16, 18. *

Wacker Drive Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Wacke ...

Rehabilitation Construction Engineering, Chicago, Illinois *

Millennium Park Millennium Park is a public park located in the Chicago Loop, Loop Community areas of Chicago, community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in July 2004, is a prominent civic center near t ...

Construction Engineering, Chicago, Illinois * I-94

Dan Ryan Expressway The Dan Ryan Expressway, often called "the Dan Ryan" by locals, is an expressway in Chicago that runs from the Jane Byrne Interchange with Interstate 290 (I-290) near downtown Chicago through the South Side of the city. It is designated ...

Reconstruction Construction Engineering, Chicago, Illinois *

Interstate 94 Interstate 94 (I-94) is an east–west Interstate Highway connecting the Great Lakes and northern Great Plains regions of the United States. Its western terminus is just east of Billings, Montana, at a junction with I-90; its eastern ter ...

(I-94) North-South Freeway Project Construction Inspection, Southeast Wisconsin * Marquette Interchange Construction Inspection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Mitchell Interchange Construction Inspection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * I-94 Construction Inspection, Stearns Road to Wisconsin State Line, Gurnee, Illinois

Dams

* Reconstruction of Sinnissippi Dam, Rock Falls, Illinois *

Mohawk River The Mohawk River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 river in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is the largest tributary of the Hudson R ...

Dam Safety Inspection, Rotterdam Junction, New York

Manual and Course Development

* ''Underwater Bridge Inspection'' (FHWA-NHI-10-027), Federal Highway Administration/National Highway Institute * ''Underwater Bridge Repair, Rehabilitation, and Countermeasures'' (FHWA-NHI-10-029), reference manual and course, Federal Highway Administration/National Highway Institute * Pontis Development & Implementation for

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is a Federated state, state government organization in the United States, in charge of maintaining public transportation, roadways, bridges, canals, select levees, floodplain mana ...

* ''Bridge Inspection and Reporting Guidelines'', U.S. Navy Bridge Inspection Program * ''Guidelines for the Installation, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair of Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires, and Traffic Signals'' (FHWA NHI 05-036), Federal Highway Administration/National Highway Institute * ''Underwater Investigations Standard Practice Manual,''

American Society of Civil Engineers The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering soci ...

* ''Underwater Evaluation and Repair of Bridge Components'' (FHWA-DP-98-1), Federal Highway Administration * ''Underwater Bridge Inspection'' (FHWA-DP-80-1), Federal Highway Administration * ''

Chicago Department of Transportation The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT ) is an executive department of the City of Chicago responsible for the safety, environmental sustainability, maintenance, and aesthetics of the surface transportation networks and public ways withi ...

Rules and Regulations for Construction in the Public Way, 2014 and 2016''

Program Management Oversight/Infrastructure Management

* Chicago Department of Transportation Project Coordination Office (2012 - current), Chicago, Illinois * Chicago Department of Transportation, dotMaps (2012 - current), Chicago, Illinois

Seismic Engineering

Charleston County School District Charleston County School District is a school district within Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. It educates roughly 50,000 kindergarten to 12th grade students in 80 schools. AdvancEd Accreditation The Charleston County School ...

Seismic Assessment, Charleston, South Carolina * Union Pier Cruise Terminal, Charleston, South Carolina * Parkside Avenue/Ocean Avenue Bridge Assessment, New York, New York
Fort Vancouver
National Historic Site Building Evaluation, Vancouver, Washington

Structural Engineering

CITGO Citgo Petroleum Corporation, or Citgo (stylized as CITGO), is a United States–based refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. Headquartered in the Energy Corridor area ...

Lemont Refinery Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by Citgo Petroleum Corporation. Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it was reconstructed between 1968 and 1970 by its then owner Union Oil and has a current crud ...

Coker Turnaround, Lemont, Illinois * Pulaski Road's Single Point Urban Diamond Interchange over Interstate 55, Chicago, Illinois

Waterfront Facilities

* Union Pier Terminal Design, Charleston, South Carolina * U.S. Coast Guard Facility Indian River Underwater Acoustic Imaging and Shoreline Stabilization, Rehoboth, Delaware
Chicago Riverwalk
Chicago, Illinois * Rehabilitation of the Fuel Pier at the

Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in Marshall Islands (Pacific Ocean). It covers about and includes rocket launch s ...

Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands * Vietnam Veterans' Memorial at Wabash Plaza, Chicago, Illinois * Repairs to Waterfront Facilities at the

U.S. Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy is the sec ...

* Structural Inspection of the Frying Pan Shoals and Diamond Shoals Light Towers for the U.S. Coast Guard, Cape Fear and Cape Hatteras, North CarolinaTennant, Diane. "Perhaps a North Carolina Light Station Could Be Yours," ''The Virginian Pilot'', August 15, 2012.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.collinsengr.com Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States Companies based in Chicago