From Left, John Gardiner, Evan Engber, Philip Buehler. Necanicum River Estuary, Seaside, Oregon.
BioEngineering Associates, Inc. (BE) is a General Engineering Contractor Class A in California and a Commercial General Contractor Level 1 in Oregon.
Our team designs for long term success, we obtain permits, and construct the project.
We supply:
- Skilled heavy equipment operators
- Heavy equipment
- Experienced construction crew labor
- Crew leaders.
- Project management
- Engineering supervision
On our largest projects we will work with an engineering firm who will do the initial survey and mapping and then working together using the firm’s survey data and our bioengineering techniques to produce the blueprint for repair or restoration, as work along stream and river channels is most often called. If Geology or Hydrology is required they either come from the engineering firm or from independent scientists. In river and stream projects we will also bring in a fisheries, wildlife and native plants biologists.
Seaside Wastewater Treatment Plant Shoreline Stabilization Project. Necanicum River Estuary, Seaside, Oregon.
When projects are far from our home base we work with local firms near the job site. As an example, our recently completed project in Seaside, Oregon involved stabilizing the eroding banks of the Necanicum River along the City’s Waste Water Treatment Plant. We hired a Seaside engineering firm to survey and map the site which we then overlaid our plan on. We worked with two local companies on permitting, one did the wetlands analysis the other the biological assessment. When it came time to construct, we brought in a small crew of our top guys, three laborers, one excavator operator and a -locally rented – excavator along with our supervising engineer and associate engineer. We interviewed and hired a local firm who supplied three laborers and two equipment operators with an excavator and a front loader. The local crew worked under the direction of BE for the duration of the project, creating a lasting partnership between the two companies. This is our preferred method of creating a high quality project.
We have also collaborated with Native American tribes. Working together we write grants accessing funds only available to the tribes for resource remediation and habitat improvement. With the help of these grants we have done “on the job” training of tribal members who, working alongside our experienced crews have learned to apply our technology to solve local resource problems within their ancestral lands.