Civil Engineering, Surveying and Consulting Services

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James S. Jones, P.E.

President
Mr. Jones has served on various projects performing tasks as simple as working as a rodman on a field crew to running multi-million dollar construction projects.  This has transpired over a period of approximately forty (40) years while working with three (3) major consulting firms.  In the last fifteen (15) years Mr. Jones has been most active working as a facilitator, coordinator and client manager.  When he worked as a consultant in Summit County, Ohio he obtained and managed two (2) major federal grant projects that were rated #2 and #4 in the State of Ohio and involved several subconsultants, multiple contractors, five (5) field crews and several inspectors.  The project was valued at approximately eighty (80) million dollars and included construction of two (2) 4 mgd advanced wastewater treatment plants.  This project had the normal challenges and took over three (3) years to complete construction.  The final project cost was only over the original contractor bid by 3%.  This project was accomplished while overcoming a continuously changing set of federal and state environmental regulatory requirements in the early 1970s.  At the ground breaking ceremony the USEPA representative commended the consulting firm involved for their cooperation and attitude that prevails for all JWCI clients.

In subsequent years, Mr. Jones had the opportunity to coordinate an effort to acquire the largest construction grant offered to the State of Ohio in that year and one of the last in the country under PL-92-500 program.  The most significant obstacle was that the county receiving the grant has only six (6) months to meet the grant requirements.  Mr. Jones, with the help of many other consultants, was able to work as the lead consultant and coordinated the design efforts.  The result of these efforts was the award of a forty-two (42) million dollar construction grant to the county being served.