Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc.

Our Services

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. is a reputable professional civil engineering firm that prides itself on a commitment to quality service.  Our integrated team of experienced engineers, project managers, design technicians, and support staff bring extensive engineering knowledge, exceptional design skills, and a strong expertise in project permitting.

SER’s main goal is to exceed your expectations.  We will work with you as partners to thoroughly understand your needs, budget and time, and we will explore all alternatives in order to determine the most  cost-efficient solution for your project. 

Civil Engineering Services

Related Projects

+ Northeast Branch Library
+ B. L. Perry Branch Library
+ Graceville Work Camp
+ FAMU Credit Union
+ Tallahassee Vehicle Wash Facility
+ Leon County Operation Center
+ FAMU Decked Parking Garage
+ FAMU SBI Building Additions
+ FAMU School of Pharmacy (Phase I)
+ FAMU Parking Lot
+ Leon County Solid Waste Transfer Station
+ FAMU Journalism Building
+ FAMU Carnegie Library Expansion
+ Mr. Bigs Car Wash Pro
+ Town of Eatonville Library

LAND DEVELOPMENT/STORMWATER/DRAINAGE

  • North Regional Master Plan, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Lowell Correctional Institute Stormwater Pond, Florida Department of Corrections
  • BP-3 Substation Stormwater Pond, City of Tallahassee, Florida
  • Tampa Bay History Center Stormwater Pond, Tampa, Florida
  • FAMU Teaching Gym Stormwater Pond, Tallahassee, Florida
  • FSU Alumni Village Drainage Improvement, Tallahassee, Florida
  • FAMU Developmental Research School Stormwater Pond, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Kate Sullivan Elementary School Site Improvement Stormwater Pond School Board, Leon County, Florida
  • FAMU Pharmacy Regional Stormwater Pond, Tallahassee, Florida
  • East Branch Library Stormwater Pond, Tallahassee, Florida
  • James S. Rickards High School Administration Building Addition and Stormwater Pond, Leon County, Florida
  • FAMU Recreation Center Facilities and Stormwater, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Town of Eatonville Public Library, Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Rigo Tide Warehouse Site and Drainage Design

PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN

Spectra Engineering & Research’s staff has utilized creativity, innovation and advanced academic training in providing a broad range of master planning services. With access to a variety of professional disciplines within the firm and our consultants, we have been able to meet our clients needs through a process that identifies natural and man-made site features. Through inclusive involvement of our clients and the regulatory agencies, we have been able to design some of the most livable communities and parks in a cost-efficient manner.

Services Include

Related Projects

+ Correctional Institution Master Plan
+ Abundant Life Ministry Master Plan
+ FAMU Stormwater Master Plan
+ Pine Ridge Estates Subdivision
+ Lanier Oaks Townhomes
+ Lake Munson Park
+ Chiles High School (permitting)
+ Kate Ireland Park
+ Woodberry Subdivision
+ Havana Middle School
+ Town of Gretna Industrial Park
+ Town of Gretna Recreation Park
+ Orchard Meadows Master Plan
+ Town of Eatonville Stormwater Masterplan
  • Wellington Place Subdivision
  • Frenchtown Renaissance Center
  • Celestial Garden Estate Subdivision
  • Pecan Hill Subdivision
  • Paradise Garden Subdivision

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. offers a variety of environmental services based on our staff’s vast experience in engineering, earth, and environmental sciences. Our professional and technical staff, including our consultants, have many years of professional experience. We are familiar with and have completed several environmental projects using the latest environmental standards. We assign experienced field personnel for quick, on-site analysis and sampling. We utilize state of the art equipment to complete environmental projects in a timely and cost-efficient manner. In collaboration with specialized consultants and testing facilities, Spectra Engineering & Research offers a broad range of environmental services as listed.

Services Include

Related Projects

+ Project Development & Environmental Studies (PD&E)
+ Planned Urban Development (PUD)
+ Environmental Site Assessments
+ Environmental Site Assessments: FAMU
+ Environmental Site Assessments: SRWMD
+ Environmental Site Assessments: Nature Conservancy
+ Environmental Site Assessments: Leon County
+ Environmental Site Assessments: Individual/Private
+ Stormwater Facilities
+ Asbestos & Lead Survey
+ NPDES Services

Wastewater and Water Systems

  • BP-3 Electric Substation Life Station – City of Tallahassee, Electric
  • Park Place Lift Station Rehabilitation – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Chattahoochee Branch Library Lift Station – Gadsden County, Florida
  • Katrina Avenue Lift Station Rehabilitation – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Lowell Correctional Institution, Multi Lift Stations – Lowell, Florida
  • Campus View Street Lift Station Rehabilitation – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Sakkara Youth Institute New Lift Station – Leon County, Florida
  • Eaton West Drive List Station Rehabilitation – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Verner Street Lift Station Rehabilitation – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • BP-12 Sanitary Sewer System Design – Tallahassee, Florida
  • Town of Eatonville Water and Wastewater System Master Plan – Town of Eatonville, Florida
  • Tampa Bay History Center Sanitary System Design – Tampa, Florida
  • FAMU Multi-purpose Building Sanitary System Design – Tallahassee, Florida

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Spectra s professional staff understands the need for effective transportation system in today s society. Our transportation experience includes analysis, planning, and design of roadway facilities for both public and private clients. Our team of professional and technical personnel and consultants have extensive experience with roadway/highway design ranging from minor intersection improvements to multilane facilities. Spectra Engineering & Research is pre-qualified with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in the following work areas:

  • 3.1 Minor Highway Design
  • 3.2 Major Highway Design
  • 6.1 Traffic Engineering Studies
  • 7.1 Signing, Pavement marking & Channelization
  • 8.1 Land & Right-of-Way Surveys
  • 8.2 Design, Right of Way and Construction Surveying
  • 8.4 Right of Way Mapping
  • 12.2 Legal Description Preparation
  • 13.6 Land Planning/Engineering

Services Include

Related Projects

+ Ortega Arlington Lakeshore
+ Cloud Street Roadway
+ Orange Avenue PD&E Study and 30% Design
+ Fairmont Road, Tallahassee, FL
+ Myers Park Curb & Gutter Improvements
+ Pine Ridge Estates Subdivision
+ Kate Sullivan Elementary School Master Planning & Driveway Improvements
+ Kennedy Boulevard Streetscape
  • Graceville Work Camp Access Road Design – Florida Department of Corrections
  • Access Road for University Church of God in Christ
  • Killearn Blvd Intersection Improvements – City of Tallahassee, Florida
  • Wahnish Way Improvement and Turn Lane – Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU)
  • Access Roadway Design for Substation BP-12 – City of Tallahassee, Florida
  • 20 – Red Light Camera Design and Permitting – City of Tallahassee, Florida
  • FAMU Development Research School Traffic Study, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Northeast Branch Library Traffic Study, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Stars Middle School Traffic Study, Tallahassee, Florida
  • BL Perry Library Addition Traffic Study, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Pecan Hill Subdivision Traffic and Transportation Planning & Design, Monticello, Florida

LAND SURVEYING (Currently Suspended)

Land surveying is often an integral part of various engineering projects and property transactions. Engineering and architectural design consultants often rely on surveying products for the planning and design of projects. Spectra’s surveying department is currently suspended, hence we utilize the services of other local surveying firms to meet our client’s needs.

You can also download and print our survey order form and fax it to our office.

PREVIOUS SURVEY PROJECT EXPERIENCE INCLUDES

SER HAS PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED SURVEYS FOR MANY CLIENTS, INCLUDING

Educational Facilities (K-12 & Universities)

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. has an impressive history and extensive experience in planning, designing, and environmental permitting of educational related facilities. SER has provided civil and site engineering design, environmental permitting and construction documents for the renovation or addition, and new construction of several educational facilities. Our experience includes kindergarten and day care facilities, elementary, middle, and high schools, and several buildings and facilities for higher education (university). SER has worked with various County School Boards as well as the Florida Board of Regents.

Related Projects

+ Havana Middle School
+ Chiles High School
+ Riley Elementary School
+ Kate Sullivan Elementary School
+ FAMU Child Care Center
+ FAMU S.B.I. Addition
+ FAMU General Classroom Building
+ FAMU Plant Operations Facility
+ FAMU Foster-Tanner Building
+ FAMU Student Services Building
+ FAMU Coleman Library
+ FAMU Pharmacy Building (Phase I)
+ FAMU Carnegie Library
+ FAMU Journalism Building
  • FAMU Recreation Center
  • FAMU Developmental Research School (Middle & High School)

  • For additional educational facility projects, please see “Government Agencies” below.

Housing & Retirement Communities

The variety of professional disciplines within Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. has allowed us to design exciting livable housing and communities in North and Central Florida. Our engineers, surveyors, planners, and environmentalists have utilized innovative skills to design and permit environmentally sensitive projects. These communities include planned urban developments, housing for the handicap, retirement communities, student housing, apartments, townhomes and subdivisions.

Related Projects

+ HUD's Housing Development
+ Orchard Meadows Master Plan
+ Lanier Oaks Townhomes
+ Pine Ridge Estates Subdivision
+ Woodberry Subdivision
+ Diston Street Duplexes
+ Bethel Towers (Elderly Housing)
  • Hamilton Subdivision
  • Gore Street Minor Subdivision

Churches & Religious Facilities

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. has been involved in the design, planning and construction of several new churches, fellowship halls, and additions to several existing churches. SER has been able to provide full professionals services, including turn-key and design-build services to various churches.  Our staff is familiar with the difficulties of financing and fund-raising and are willing to work with the churches through those difficulties. SER has provided the following services to churches:

  1. Assisted in planning and assessing churches’ expansion needs.
  2. Evaluated potential properties or vacant lands for environmental problems.
  3. Performed surveying services of existing or proposed property.
  4. Prepared full engineering and construction documents.
  5. Advised churches on the different City, County, Water Management District and State requirements.
  6. Provided turn-key or project management of new constructions.
  7. Provided professional and cost efficient services.

Related Projects

+ University Ministries Church of God in Christ
+ Christ Gospel Church
+ New Salem Primitive Missionary Baptist
+ Friendship AME Church
+ Celebrate New Life Tabernacle
+ Abundant Life Ministry Master Plan
+ Testarina Primitive Baptist Church
+ New Harvest Christian Church
+ Jacob Freewill Baptist Church
+ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
+ Greater Tanner AME Church
+ New Covenant Holy Temple
+ Life Deliverance Missionary Church

Government Agencies

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. prides itself on an impressive history of providing professional engineering and surveying services for a variety of government agencies. Many of these have become repeat clients for SER as we have completed several projects for these agencies and municipalities.  Some are currently in design phase, while the rest are under construction.  For all of these projects, SER provided full civil and site engineering, site planning, permitting and constructio administration. 

Related Projects

Florida Board of Regents

+ FAMU Plant Operations Facility
+ FAMU Foster-Tanner Building
+ FAMU Child Care Center
+ FAMU S.B.I. Addition
+ FAMU General Classroom Building
+ FAMU Decked Parking Garage
+ FAMU Parking Lot
+ FAMU Student Services Building
+ FAMU Journalism Building
+ FAMU Coleman Library
+ FAMU Pharmacy Building Phase I & Phase II
+ FAMU Carnegie Library
  • FAMU Recreational Facility
  • FAMU Stormwater Master Plan
  • FAMU Recreational Facility
  • FAMU Pharmaceutical Research Wing
  • FAMU College of Law School – Orlando
  • FAMU Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) – over 60 sites
  • FAMU Asbestos/Lead Studies & Abatement
  • FAMU Campus-Wide Electrical Upgrade
  • FSU Alumni Village Drainage Improvements
  • FSU Continuing Civil Engineering Contract
  • FAMU Al Lawson Teaching Gym
  • FAMU Continuing Engineering Services Contract

Leon County Commission

+ Continuing Civil Engineering and Surveying Contract
+ Leon County Operation Center
+ Orange Avenue PD&E Study and 30% Design
+ Kate Ireland Park
+ Leon County Solid Waste Transfer Station
+ Northeast Branch Library
+ Lake Munson Park
+ B. L. Perry Branch Library
+ Planned Urban Development (PUD)
  • Lake Munson Restoration
  • Employee Parking Lot Design
  • Leon County Fleet Management
  • Alford Arm Park
  • New Cypress Landing Park
  • Leon County Carpet Building Project
  • Leon County Fuel Depot

Leon County School Board

+ Continuing Civil Engineering and Surveying Contract
+ Chiles High School (permitting)
+ Kate Sullivan Elementary School Parking Driveway and Stormwater Pond
+ Riley Elementary School
  • Wesson Elementary School Renovation
  • Raa Middle School Addition & Site Plan
  • Rickards High School ROTC Building
  • Rickards High School Administration Building
  • Fort Braden Elementary School Addition and Site Improvement

City of Tallahassee

+ Myers Park Curb and Gutter Improvement
  • Vehicle Wash Facility
  • Tom Brown Park Stage Addition
  • City of Tallahassee BP-3 Electric Station
  • City of Tallahassee BP-17 Electric Substation
  • Village Square Intersection
  • On-site Loan Mitigation Program
  • City’s Stormwater Management Continuing Services Consultant Firm

Gadsden County School Board

+ Havana Middle School

Department of Management Services

+ Continuing Civil, Water, and Sewer Services

Department of Corrections

+ Graceville Work Camp
  • Master plan of Proposed Correctional Institute

Suwannee River Water Management District

+ Continuing Contract as Engineer-of-Record
+ Continuing Environmental Services Contract
  • Environmental Site Assessment of over 15 separate sites

Northwest Florida Water Management District

+ Continuing Civil Engineering and Surveying Contract
  • Environmental Site Assessment of 24 separate sites

Department of Housing & Urban Development

  • Housing Unit for the Handicap, Mariana, FL
  • Housing Unit for the Handicap, Tallahassee, FL
  • Housing Unit for the Handicap, Panama City, FL

City of Qunicy

  • Route & Topographic Survey
  • Right-of-Way Survey
  • Cross Roads Academy New Classroom Addition
  • Cross Roads Academy Site Improvement
  • Cross Roads Academy Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
  • Quincy Fire Station Environmental Site Assessment

City of Gretna

+ Town of Gretna Industrial Park
+ Town of Gretna Recreation Park

City of Midway

  • City Hall Drainage Improvement
  • Boundary & Location Survey
  • City of Midway Improvement Park
  • City of Midway FDRAP Park Design
  • City of Midway Intersection and Road Improvements

Town of Eatonville

  • Eatonville Public Library
  • JFK Streetscape Beautification and CEI
  • NPDES Annual Report
  • Site Plan Review-Fire Station/DAT-Shaw
  • Flooring/Kennedy Center
  • Walgreens Store Site Plan Review
  • Drainage, Utility MasterPlan, and Stormwater

US National Forest

  • Gopher, Frog and Alligator Trail

Other Clients

  • United States Post Office
  • Chattahoochee Branch Library Construction

Construction Engineering Inspection

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. provides Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) services to assist project owners in executing construction projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. Construction quality is assured through a well-managed program of inspection, materials, and testing. SER’s construction inspectors and technicians are extremely experienced in the disciplines necessary to provide quality inspection programs.

SER’s staff has provided design office technical support as well as field CEI services on a wide range of projects. Our staff has developed a keen awareness of problems that can be encountered in the construction process. When construction problems arise in the field, a working knowledge of both the design and materials control issues, as well as normal construction practices, allows SER’s staff to propose timely, accurate and cost effective alternatives and solutions for the contractors’ field personnel.

Specific CEI Services

Related Projects

+ Kennedy Boulevard Streetscape

Airport & Infrastructure Engineering

SER has been involved and provided a broad range of services to airports ranging from planning to design-build. Spectra has successfully worked with airport authorities, county commissions, city councils, airlines, and FDOT to name a few. Spectra Engineering has a diversified team of professional engineers, professional surveyors and mappers, project managers, administrative, technical, and support staff with a wide range of extensive experience in planning, designing and construction phases, we can offer total project management from initial planning stages through project completion. We have built a track record of providing quality services. Our ultimate goal in every project, big or small, is to completely satisfy our clients.

The following examples illustrate the types of projects we have successfully completed:

  • Orlando International Airport H-161 By Pass Road
  • Orlando International Airport Inspection Lane
  • Orlando International Airport BP-379 Southeast Airfield Wildlife Habitat Reduction Phase II Project
  • Orlando International Airport H-124 Pond 1 Berm Reconstruction
  • Tallahassee Regional Airport Parking Lot Design

The following examples illustrate the types of projects we have completed:

  • Design-build associations
  • Site/roadway design
  • Construction engineering inspection (CEI)
  • Stormwater environmental Permitting
  • Site assessment
  • Preparation of construction documents
  • Construction survey layout Design surveying/as-built survey
  • Master plans
  • Environmental assessments
  • Construction administration
  • Parking lots
  • Taxiways
  • Runways

Continuing Services Contracts With Government Agencies

Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. has extensive experience in providing services as part of continuing service contracts. Spectra has had the opportunity to service several communities, state and local agencies as a continuing service consultant in engineering and environmental services.

The list of Spectra’s past and present continuing services contracts are as follows:

  • City of Midway
  • City of Tallahassee
  • Department of Management Services
  • Florida A&M University
  • Florida State University
  • Leon County Commission
  • Leon County School Board
  • Martin County School Board
  • Suwanee River Water Management District
  • Town of Eatonville