ENGINEERING CONCEPTS, INC. (ECI) is a minority-owned small business founded in 1986. We are qualified as small business concern, administered by the U.S. Small Business Adminstration. Our prime objective is to provide our clients with high quality work that is accurate, timely, and meets our clients' expectations and needs.

Total Quality Management (TQM) is our firm's underlying quality control work principle. This concept focuses on greater communication and partnering with our clients externally and with our staff internally. Our staff participate along with the company principals in collectively formulating an efficient and effective plan to achieve the project objectives. Performance measurement indicators are developed to monitor job quality and progress. This participatory concept promotes a constancy of purpose, avoids the pitfalls of unforeseen complications, and instills in each member of the project team a clear understanding of the processes involved in the project. Participation at all working levels encourages innovation and instills a sense of ownership and pride in the delivered products.

ENGINEERING PERSONNEL

Our staff at Engineering Concepts, Inc. consists of 12 engineers, 5 CADD technicians, and 2 adminstrative staff. The following is a list of the principals at ECI:

• Myron Nomura, President
  
  
• Kenneth Ishizaki, Executive Vice President
  
  
• Craig Arakaki, Vice President

The engineering staff at ECI are listed below:

• Dana Arakaki, P.E., Environmental Engineer, Bachelor of Science & Master of Science (Candidate)

• Terry Chan, P.E., Environmental Engineer, Bachelor of Science

• Conrad Higashionna, P.E., Senior Project Engineer (Civil), Bachelor of Science

• Tieshi (Tim) Huang, P.E., Environmental Engineer, Bachelor of Science & Master of Science

• Anna Lee, P.E., Senior Project Engineer (Sanitary/Environmental), Bachelor of Science & Master of Science

• Daryl Tanabe, Civil Engineer, Bachelor of Science

• June Tang, P.E., Civil Engineer, Bachelor of Science & Master of Science

• Douglas Yamamoto, P.E., Senior Project Engineer (Sanitary/Environmental), Bachelor of Science & Master of Science

• Doraine Young, P.E., Senior Project Engineer (Civil/Hydraulic), Bachelor of Science & Master of Science

COMPANY EXPERIENCE

Our staff has worked on numerous major developments in Hawaii for private industry as well as on projects for State, County, and Federal agencies and are therefore very familiar with government regulations and requirements. Past projects have included civil infrastructure, of roads, highways, drainage, potable water and non-potable water systems and wastewater treatment and disposal / recycling facilities.

Engineering Concepts, Inc. has extensive experience in the following areas:

• Project Administration and Management Services
  
  
• Environmental Assessment Reports
  
  
• Environmental Impact Statement Reports
  
  
• Engineering Studies, Planning, and Design:
  
  

  • Civil Site Improvements for Residential, Resort, Commercial, Airport, and Harbor Developments

  • Highways and Roads

  • Water Systems

  • Wastewater Systems

  • Environmental Permits

Engineering Concepts, Inc. offers the following services:

• Provide conceptual development infrastructure plans and preliminary construction cost estimates;

• Provide engineering studies, with alternatives and recommendations for specific development and implementation programs;

• Provide engineering assistance to process land use, zoning, and development plan change applications and other permits required by the Federal, State and County government agencies;

• Provide coordination and consultation with affected government agencies to process planning and design documents for approval, including graphical exhibits for presentations at public meetings;

• Prepare environmental impact assessments and statements utilizing field, laboratory, and subconsultant services to evaluate potential significant impacts and develop mitigation measures;

• Provide water system engineering services including hydrologic investigations for water supply; water quality analyses; water master plans; distribution system hydraulic modeling; design of surface and ground water development sources, pumping stations, reservoirs, transmission and distribution piping systems; and irrigation systems;

• Provide wastewater system engineering services including water quality sampling and laboratory analyses; wastewater management and facilities master plans; and design of collection and transmission piping systems, lift stations, and treatment plants including effluent and sludge disposal facilities;

• Provide storm drainage engineering services including hydrologic studies; flood analyses and flood hazard reports; drainage master plans; erosion and silt control measures; and design of collection, transmission, retention, and disposition facilities; and

• Provide highway and roadway engineering services including traffic measurement and analyses; development of design criteria; determination of optimum road alignment and grade; design of pavement, drainage and utility systems, pedestrian facilities, and bikeways; and traffic detour and phasing plans.

COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES

The production capability of Engineering Concepts, Inc. is enhanced by extensive use of microcomputer systems with access to a large library of civil sitework and utility infrastructure computer programs, including computer-aided drafting and design. Computers are utilized in conjunction with spreadsheets and advanced features of word processing programs to quickly and efficiently generate such items as cost estimates, and construction specifications.

Engineering programs such as HEC-RAS, WaterCAD, SewerCAD, PondPack, StormCAD, and Flowmaster by Haestad Methods, and both the Eagle Point Software Aden Land Development for AutoCAD (both are civil engineering software packages covering surface modeling, COGO, and roadway/site design) are used to aid in the design process. We utilize both Microstation (by Bentley) and AutoCAD (by Autodesk) CAD systems software and have an extensive library of standard drawings and details on file to maximize product efficiency. The ability to interchange AutoCAD.DWG and Microstation.DGN files directly and use a 36-inch by 48-inch digitizing table for data input provide additional support for our CAD system. Hewlett-Packard 1050C thermal inkjet plotter and a Xerox 7356 plotter enable us to print and scan high quality E-size drawings with minimal time and effort. In addition, a Xerox Workcenter 40 and Panasonic DP-C354 color printers allows us to produce high quality laser prints. We also utilize ArcView (by ESRI) for geographic information systems and 3-D analysis