AVILES ENGINEERING CORPORATION

Aviles Engineering Corporation has been providing Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Materials Testing and Inspection Services, Environmental Consulting, Site Assessment Services, and Construction Management for 26 years in the Houston Area. AEC also operates three special project on-site testing facilities (two in the Austin Area, one in Pasadena) and provides geotechnical services on various TxDOT projects throughout the state.

AEC’s professional staff of 50+ employees has broad and varied cumulative experience in the various services. AEC’s Management Staff, Dionel E. Aviles, Ph.D., P.E., Ronald E. Ortwerth, P.E., Shou Ting Hu, P.E. and Truman Louderback, R.E.M. have combined experience of over 130 years providing geotechnical engineering and exploration; construction materials testing and inspection services; construction management, construction supervision and inspection, environmental engineering services and site assessments in Houston, the State of Texas and the Gulf Coast area.

Our Geotechnical Engineering department is headed by Dionel E. Aviles, Ph.D., P.E. and Shou Ting Hu, P.E. with 50 and 20 years experience respectively in providing geotechnical services and has a total of seven licensed geotechnical engineers and four (4) laboratory technicians. This is one of the most experienced Geotechnical Groups in Houston that have provided geotechnical services on many significant projects in the Houston area. AEC’s Geotechnical Group has completed over 500 geotechnical projects and over $4 mil in net fees over the past 5 years.

AEC’s Construction Materials Engineering, Testing and Inspection department is headed by Ronald E. Ortwerth, P.E. and Shane Ressman, P.E. with 30 and 10 years of experience respectively in providing construction materials testing and inspection services in the Houston Area. These Engineers provide support for 30+ ACI, TxDOT and NICET Certified Technicians with experience ranging from 30 years to 1 year in construction materials testing and inspection. AEC’s Materials Group is also one of the strongest materials groups in Houston and has provided services on many significant projects. AEC has completed materials testing and inspection services on over 300 construction materials testing projects and over $6.5 mil in fees over the past 5 years.

AEC’s Environmental Group is headed by Truman Louderback, a Registered Environmental Manager with over 30 years of comprehensive environmental management and consulting experience. The Environmental Division also contains a licensed Professional Geoscientist and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Corrective Action Project Manager. Our expertise includes, but is not limited to; Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments; environmental permitting and negotiations with regulatory agencies; cultural and natural resource surveys and clearances; and litigation and public hearing support. Within the past 5 years, the AEC Environmental Division has completed over 125 environmental projects and over $1.1 mil in fees over the past 5 years.

AEC’s Construction Management Group is headed by Dionel E. Aviles, Ph.D., P.E. AEC is a team member with The Team Advance, providing managements services on HISD current bond program. Dionel Aviles heads the five firm team in providing Program and Construction Management of the bond program. AEC also provides administrative support to Team Advance. AEC is teamed with PGAL to provide Construction Management on Houston Community College's Expansion. AEC has provided Glenn Jarrett as a Construction Manager on this project.

AEC is an Accredited Laboratory for technical competence in Geotechnical Testing and Construction Materials Testing (see our scope of accreditation) by the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) and is one of only a few firms in the Houston Area that is also Accredited by AASHTO for Testing of Construction Materials in accordance with AASHTO R18 We are inspected on regular tours by AMRL and CCRL.

AEC uses state of the art computer programs for pavement design, settlement analysis, pile design and slope stability analysis to assure accurate and technically supported designs. All laboratory testing is input into password protected documents to insure accuracy of calculations and all reporting is also provided on password protected documents to perform checks on field and laboratory information.

AEC is certified as a Small Business with METRO and the Port of Houston Authority; is certified as a Minority/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise with the Texas Unified Certification Program, City of Houston, Houston Independent School District, State of Texas and GSC and a HUB with the State of Texas (TBPC), Houston Business Council, City of Austin and City of San Antonio.