KDE is committed to operating a business based on the highest standards of morality and professionalism. KDE’s complete dedication to its clients’ interests and commitment to standards has allowed the Company to obtain and retain their trust that, in turn, has resulted in its success.  KDE feels that its qualifications are adequately depicted in the areas further discussed under Professional Experience.  To satisfy the demands of its client base, KDE incorporates project planning and scheduling as an integral component of its service.

KDE’s employees are its strength and the Company provides them with state-of-the-art equipment and strong staff support.

Registrations:
Texas Board of Professional Engineers
Registration Number: F9422

Memberships:
Texas Society of Professional Engineers

Texas Society of Professional Land Suveying
American Society of Civil Engineers

Employees are fully qualified for the positions held and are continuously trained.  Educational advancement is encouraged through a continuing education program.  KDE recognizes continuing education as a necessary component of professional enhancement and offers programs to nurture each employee in his or her individual development.  The lengthy experience and constant training of KDE employees combine to produce work of the highest quality.  KDE’s policy is to maintain the same personnel for single assignments.  The benefit is to both client and KDE through greater experience level for related work from the standpoint of procedure, enhanced communication with clients and increased ability to visualize the work product. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Commercial:
Holiday Inn-Select, San Antonio, Texas
Live Oak Auto Auction, Live Oak, Texas
Murphy’s Produce, San Antonio, Texas
Transworld Leasing, San Antonio, Texas
Culebra Multifamily, San Antonio, Texas
Foundation Christian Ministries Campus, Bastrop, Texas
St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Cemetery, New Braunfels, Texas
Lone Star Missionary Baptist Church, Bastrop Texas
Relining Technologies, Bastrop Texas
Lee County Petroleum, Dale Texas
Lee County Petroleum, Cedar Creek Texas
Sierra Storage, Bastrop Texas

Residential:
Autumn Run Unit-3, Converse, Texas
Freedom Hills Units 1 & 2, San Antonio, Texas
Marbach Village Units 1 & 2, San Antonio, Texas
Wildhorse Vista Units 1 & 2, San Antonio, Texas
Medina Base Subdivision, San Antonio, Texas
Magnolia Springs Units 1 & 2, New Braunfels, Texas
Escondido North Unit 3, San Antonio, Texas
Luckey Ranch Unit-2, Bexar County, Texas
Terra Mont PUD, Bexar County, Texas
Rancho Rosillo Unit-2, San Antonio, Texas
Rocky Creek Units 1 & 2, Travis County, Texas
Culebra Subdivision, Unit 1, San Antonio, Texas
River Lodge Estates, Unit 1, Kerrville, Texas

Additional Project Experience:

The Pinnacle at Sonterra 

Rogers Ranch

The Greens at Lincoln Heights  

Monte Cristo
The Oaks of French Creek    

The Villages of Sonterra

Several Units in the Dominion  Several Units in Encino Park
Albertson’s Grocery    

HEB   
Barnacle Bills      

Parkhills Baptist Church   
Blockbuster      

Porter Loring Funeral Home
Corner Stone Church Expansion  

Walgreens
Encino Park Shopping Center  

World Savings and Loan
Judson Crossing Shopping Center  

Louis Pasteur Retail Center 
Multiple Dental Clinics     

RSW Office and Retail Center 
Shaenfield Crossing      

SIOCO Medical Offices
Templo Pentecostal Church

Capital Improvement Project experiences:                                  

San Antonio Water System – Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation and Water Distribution Systems
SARA – Drainage and Hydrology Modeling
FEMA – Floodplain studies, FEMA floodplain map revisions (CLOMR’s, and LOMR’s)
TxDOT – Highway Design
 
Several of these residential and commercial projects required the design of off-site infrastructure to support their respective  development.  We have designed numerous utility, drainage, and roadway improvements to support all kinds of residential and commercial developments.  The following shall list our technical areas of proficiency:
 
Aboveground storage of hydrocarbon tanks       
Mixed Use Development
Cost estimates                
Various drainage and detention studies and analysis
Edward’s Aquifer watershed management programs     
Hydraulic energy dissipaters/stilling basin structures
Erosion control systems          
Feasibility Studies
FEMA drainage submittals (CLOMAR/LOMAR)     
Gabion design systems
Hydrology and Hydraulic modeling / studies / analysis     
Stormwater runoff treatment systems 
Sanitary sewer and stormsewer lift station design      
Platting 
Planned Unit Development (PUD)          
Preparation of project specifications
Street and Roadway design systems                                      
Stormwater pollution abatement systems
Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems                                       
Water Quality
Site grading and drainage                                                      
Storm sewer design systems
Underground storage of hydrocarbon tanks                       
Water distribution systems
Water Pollution Abatement Systems

KDE’s mission is to provide exceptional services for our clients, KDE will always guarantee contractual stated costs regardless of “overruns”.  We do it  “right the first time” or we absorb the difference.
 
KDE’s core values of Honesty, Integrity, and Professional Excellence are the standards by which we approach every Client Relationship, Employee Engagement, Project we handle, and Stewardship of our place in the South/Central Texas Community.

TR-55  

Models general hydrology and runoff from site development.  In addition to SCS and TR-55 methods, the program can compute hydrographs using the Rational Method and Modified Method; in addition to these capabilities, it also computes Tc, weights, Cns and Rational “C” coefficients and computes peak discharges.

FREQN 

Computes peak flow rates from gauging stations located along rivers, creeks or streams.  Provides peak flow rates for the two-year through two hundred-year flow events.

Latest generation of hydrologic modeling software from the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers.  Supersedes HEC-1

HEC-RAS 

Computes water surface profiles for steady, gradually varied flow in natural or man made channels, creeks, streams and rivers.  It handles subcritical and supercritical flows, and can model obstructions such as bridges, culverts, weirs and floodplain structures. HEC-RAS has applications in managing floodplains, evaluating floodway encroachments, identifying flood hazard zones and designing channel improvements.  It is used extensively for developing FEMA floodplain studies.

THYSYS,  

Used for analyzing and designing inlets, storm sewer systems, culverts STORMCAD,  and open channels.  These  models can  develop design  flows using the
WINSTORM,  Rational Method or Gauged Data.
FLOW MASTER,

Hydra flow 

Used for detention pond design, this program estimates detention storage
Hydragraphs requirements, computes volume rating tables for any pond configuration,   routes hydrographs for different return frequencies through alternative    ponds and plots the resulting inflow and outflow hydrographs.  All equations are included in an easy to read report so that reviewing agencies can quickly identify the methodology used.

 Water distribution and pressure network analysis program.  This program is capable of analyzing small and large-scale water supply and distribution systems.  Model capabilities include tanks and pumping systems, reservoirs and distribution systems.

An interactive surveying and civil engineering automation system developed by AutoDesk.  AutoCAD provides tools to process field survey
 data and develop  engineering  design for a wide variety of applications.  AutoCAD operates in the Microsoft Windows XP environment, giving  visual access to survey and design geometry. This program provides full support for surveying operations working with many data collection  systems, such as TDS. This program aids the engineer, technician or draftsman in design and drafting of all aspects.  It allows for complete accuracy in all designs and drawings and provides for fast revisions.  This program can plot as many original drawings as required, with complete legibility and accuracy.

Comprehensive  and economical solution to all civil engineering analyses, design and drafting needs. This is an integrated package of software working in a Windows XP environment for an array of civil/site design and survey applications. The core and associated modules work inside of AutoCAD, making it user friendly with simultaneous computational analysis and final plan production. KDE has the combined modules for use in-house as follows:
 
• Advance Designer
• Coordinate Geometry (COGO)
• Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM)
• Earthworks
• Hydrology Tools
• Landscape
• Data Collection

CARLSON 

The software runs on Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Professional platform.  It is used for; GPS baseline processing, survey network adjustment, processing of GPS (Real Time Survey data "RTS") and conventional topographic survey data, quality assurance and quality control of data, road design data import and export, extensive import and export formats for transfer of data from a variety of sources, digital terrain modeling and contouring, datum transformation and projections, GIS data capture and data export, project reporting, and survey project management.