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Storm Water Management

To some, it’s a four-letter word for something that costs money and takes up space.  To others, it’s a way to help reduce our impacts on the environment, and restore hydrologic cycles.  To everyone, it’s something that needs to be thought through, worked out, and designed before getting plan approval...

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Midwestern Consulting Proves To Be a Reliable Consultant to the University of Michigan

Excuse us for boasting! We couldn’t be more proud of the relationship we have developed over the years providing civil engineering services to the University of Michigan.  It’s long-term professional relationships like these that distinguish Midwestern Consulting from other civil engineering firms in southeast Michigan. The University recently announced over...

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Midwestern Consulting utilizes Civil 3D

Midwestern Consulting utilizes Civil 3D to take “lines” on a paper and bring them to life in a model.  These models consists of points, grading surfaces, utilities and profiles, which are no longer flat on our screen but alive in 3 dimensions.  Building these models allows us to create multiple...

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Midwestern Consulting adds to team of professionals

Newest professionals joining firm are Wagner and Spiess ANN ARBOR, MI – Midwestern Consulting continues to grow with the addition of new professional staff to insure that current and future clients receive exceptional customer service. Rob Wagner, PE, has over 23 years of experience in project management and engineering design...

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Stop Treating Soil Like Dirt!

Matt Power, Editor-In-Chief of Green Builder Magazinewrites in the March 2012 issue about how typical construction practices destroy soil ecosystems during development of new buildings.  Stripping and mass grading, “attack(ing) a piece of land the way a three-year-old goes after a lump of Play-Doh”, typically divides the soil into one...

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