Full-service site civil engineering for commercial and residential land development — site planning, grading design, stormwater design, erosion control design, utility design, and permitting, from concept through construction.
Lot and building layout, access, parking, and land-use programming for residential subdivisions and commercial sites.
Grading and drainage plans that move stormwater off the site effectively, balance cut-and-fill earthwork, and hold up against existing topography and site constraints.
Plans and calculations for stormwater control measures such as ponds, underground detention, and other water quality treatment devices.
E&SC plans and calculations that meet permitting authority requirements and prevent sediment from leaving the site during construction.
Water, sanitary sewer, and storm drainage infrastructure plans. Private or public systems.
Plan submittal and agency coordination across county, municipal, and state review to secure the site civil permits a project needs.
Compass Civil Engineering was founded in 2025 by Kennedy Wilson, PE, who now brings more than seven years of experience in civil engineering to every project. He earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from UNC Charlotte.
The idea behind Compass started simple: build a small, hands-on firm where clients get a direct line to the person actually doing the design work, instead of a message passed along through layers of project managers and junior staff. That idea grew into a firm built around real relationships — one where every site gets the same level of attention whether it's a five-lot subdivision or a multi-phase commercial development, and where the person you talk to on day one is the same person who sees the project through to permit approval.
What Compass prides itself on most is communication — keeping clients in the loop at every stage and looking out for their interests as if the project were our own. That means catching problems early and coordinating solutions with the client that meet their budget and overall goal for the project.
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