Business Details
Your Trusted Partner for Construction Solutions
Core Design is a privately owned team of professionals specializing in Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design, Civil Engineering, and Surveying services for commercial, residential, and public land development projects. With over five decades of collective experience, our multidisciplinary team delivers innovative and thoughtful solutions to complex projects of all scales. Our commitment to quality service at a fair cost is supported by our deep expertise in project feasibility, regulatory compliance, and construction coordination. We maintain established relationships with jurisdictional staff to streamline agency reviews while prioritizing client satisfaction through transparent communication and value-driven outcomes.Our licensed professionals operate across ten states, offering tailored services from project inception to construction completion. By integrating technical precision with creative design, we address environmental challenges, zoning constraints, and market demands to create livable, sustainable communities. Our leadership team includes licensed engineers, planners, and landscape architects who bring decades of industry-specific knowledge to every project. This combination of technical rigor and client-focused service has solidified our reputation as a trusted partner in land development consulting.
Services
Surveying
Civil Engineering
Planning
Landscape Architecture
Development Management
Highlights and features
- We offer 50+ years of combined experience in land development consulting
- Our multidisciplinary team includes licensed engineers and landscape architects
- We implement a patented project coordination methodology for construction phases
- Our team maintains established relationships with jurisdictional staff
- We provide value engineering services to optimize project costs
Services
Civil Engineering
Our civil engineering team provides comprehensive services including storm drainage design, road and parking design, and construction engineering administration. We ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining design continuity throughout project phases. Our engineers collaborate with clients to deliver innovative solutions that meet jurisdictional requirements and construction standards.
Landscape Architecture
We create functional outdoor spaces through integrated landscape architecture services. Our approach combines environmental stewardship with aesthetic design for parks, streetscapes, and commercial developments. The team provides planting design, irrigation planning, and graphic modeling to enhance project value while preserving natural resources.
Development Management
Our development management services cover project feasibility through construction completion. With experienced professionals managing budgets, timelines, and contractor coordination, we help clients streamline complex development processes. Services include cost analysis, value engineering, and construction phase support to ensure project success.
Planning
We offer comprehensive land use planning services addressing zoning requirements, site constraints, and environmental considerations. Our team creates master plans for residential communities, commercial centers, and institutional facilities while navigating entitlement processes to ensure regulatory compliance and market viability.
Surveying
Our survey department provides precise land measurement services for development projects. With decades of experience, we deliver boundary surveys, topographic mapping, and construction staking to support accurate project implementation. Our data ensures proper site analysis and regulatory compliance for various land development applications.
People
Michael Moody
Department Head, Civil Engineering
Licensed professional engineer with extensive experience in civil infrastructure design and construction management. Specializes in regulatory compliance and technical coordination for complex development projects.
Lindsey Solorio
Department Head, Landscape Architecture
Registered landscape architect focusing on sustainable design solutions. Expertise in integrating natural features with built environments to create functional, aesthetically pleasing spaces that enhance community value.
Lafe Hermansen
Department Head, Planning
Senior planning professional with deep knowledge of entitlement processes and land use regulations. Specializes in creating market-driven site plans that balance development needs with environmental constraints.
Glen Duringer
Construction Manager
35-year industry veteran specializing in construction management and project coordination. Brings extensive field experience to ensure smooth project execution from design through completion.
Eric Clarke
Development Manager
33-year development expert focusing on project feasibility analysis and cost management. Skilled in optimizing development strategies to maximize return on investment while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Questions
What services does Core Design offer?
We provide civil engineering, landscape architecture, planning, surveying, and development management services for commercial, residential, and public land development projects.
In which states do you operate?
Our licensed professionals serve projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, and Kansas.
How does your project coordination process work?
Our engineers collaborate throughout all project phases, maintaining continuity from design through construction to ensure consistent implementation of plans and specifications.
What types of development projects do you handle?
We work on single/multi-family residential, commercial centers, planned communities, condominiums, and institutional facilities with varying complexity and scale.
How do you ensure regulatory compliance?
Our team maintains strong relationships with jurisdictional staff and stays current with agency regulations to streamline reviews and ensure code-compliant designs.
What makes your team qualified?
Our professionals include licensed engineers, planners, and landscape architects with decades of combined experience in land development consulting across multiple states.
Reviews (4)
Steve Simmons
Apr 20, 2022
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Great place to work. Have gone above and beyond to keep us all employed. They're always looking for good people to going our team.
Heather Lavin
Apr 10, 2022
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Very professional and knowledgeable team of surveyors. Very happy with their work, work ethic and your communication.
Mitchell Gasser
Mar 22, 2022
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Core Design Inc. is a great company, with a knowledgeable and hard working staff. They are always responsive and pleasant to work with. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to perform surveying, civil engineering, planning, and landscape architecture.
Tim B.
Mar 01, 2021
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They are extremely incompetent and waste your money with their lack of knowledge. Something they should know from the back of their head like required setback took them a month to figure out and realized they had made a mistake. I wouldn't trust them to do any of the work and there is a reason why everyone else is so busy when their schedule is wide open.
