About The SUMMIT Companies

Company History

SUMMIT Engineering and Construction Services, Inc. was founded in the Charlotte-Metropolitan area by three experienced professionals in 2004 with a primary focus on Material Testing and Inspection Services.  Understanding the area's need for a diverse and well rounded consulting firm, our founding partners have worked to assemble an impressive team of qualified field and technical professionals with diverse Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, Advanced Material and Laboratory Testing and Land Survey backgrounds. 

Through development of our extensive professional service capabilities, investment in advanced material testing and land survey equipment and offering in-house seismic and geotechnical drilling we have created a reputable, reliable and well respected consulting engineering firm with over 50 employees in three area offices.

Our growth can be directly attributed to the effective utilization of our team to provide a diverse offering of consulting services, immediate project response, open and active communication and cost-effective and practical solutions for our wide range of clientele.

Company Overview

SUMMIT is a multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting services group headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with branch office in Raleigh, North Carolina, and testing offices in Huntersville, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina.

With over 50 qualified employees, SUMMIT provides Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering, Subsurface Drilling, Construction Materials Testing, Chapter 17 Special Inspections, Advanced Laboratory Testing, Residential and Retaining Wall Design, Structural and Forensic Inspections, Site and Civil Engineering Design and Licensed Land Surveying through our family of companies.

Our Geotechnical Engineering and Drilling department provides our clients detailed due diligence, planning, engineering design and remediation support by utilizing advanced equipment for completion of these services. This equipment includes our in-house track mounted drilling platform for subsurface explorations and Seismic Microtremor Refraction equipment for site specific seismic evaluations. Additionally, our Geotechnical Department offers retaining wall, deep foundation and slope stability analysis and design services.

SUMMIT's Environmental Engineering department also provides specific due diligence and planning services such as Phase I / II, Wetlands, Endangered Species, Water Quality and NEPA Surveys in addition to project specific evaluations for indoor air-quality, lead paint, asbestos and mold. "Turn-key" remediation and abatement activities for lead paint, asbestos, mold and storage tanks can also be completed.

As our largest department, SUMMIT's Material Testing and Special Inspection group maintains a staff of 25 dedicated Field Technicians and Special Inspectors trained and certified to perform testing on nearly any construction project.  These services, fften defined as Quality Control / Quality Assurance, typically encompass Soils, Concrete, Structural Steel and Bolting, Foundations, Pre-cast Concrete, Post-Tension Concrete, Structural Masonry, Welding, Deep Foundations, Retaining Walls, Seismic Reinforcement and Fireproofing among others.

SUMMIT's Materials Testing Laboratory is one of the area's most accredited and certified facilities.  Advanced calibrated equipment, experienced and qualified laboratory personnel and accreditations by AASHTO, ACI, AMRL, CCRL and NCDOT allow our facility to complete an extensive array of advanced material test procedures.

In addition to our consulting services, SUMMIT Land Services provides Licensed Land Surveying services including ALTA, Boundary, Topographic, Construction Staking and as-built survey services in addition to turn-key site civil engineering design throughout our service area.