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Terracon

Terracon is a 100 percent employee-owned consulting engineering firm providing quality services to clients. Since 1965, Terracon has evolved into a successful multi-discipline firm specializing in environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials services.

Over our history, Terracon has achieved significant expansion through both internal growth and acquisitions. Terracon currently has more than 4,000 employees in 140 offices, serving all 50 states nationwide.

From the ground up, Terracon provides practical solutions to environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials engineering challenges. On both small and large projects, our experienced professionals work closely with our clients to achieve success, on time and on budget.

Terracon’s Rockford office was established in 1994. We provide geotechnical design, environmental consulting and construction materials engineering and testing services. The laboratory is certified with the Illinois Department of Transportation. Terracon has provided services to a variety of projects including soil, concrete and steel testing for the federal courthouse, geotechnical investigation for a production plant and construction material testing and observation for a conservatory, among many others. By combining our national resources with the specific local area expertise, Terracon provides services on thousands of projects each year. Doug Waldeier is the Project Engineer, Office Manage of the Rockford location.

Terracon services retail and commercial development:

  • Environmental site assessments
  • Remedial design, implementation and closure
  • Subsurface investigations
  • Foundation analysis and design
  • Pavement and slab evaluations
  • Slope stability and retention system analysis
  • In-situ testing and performance monitoring
  • Field and laboratory testing
  • Testing of soils and rock, asphalt, concrete and masonry, aggregates, and structural steel
  • Property condition assessments and seismic evaluation

Terracon supports clients in commercial development by providing value-added services in the areas of geotechnical engineering, environmental assessment, construction materials engineering and testing, and facilities engineering services.



Save with a Seismic Site Evaluation.



Deep Excavation Support: Innovative Geodesign in an Urban Environment.



Beyond Drilling: Using Geophysics to Understand What’s Beneath the Surface.


Advantages of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

The evaluation of compressive strength of in-place concrete is often needed for projects of new constructions, structural additions and remodeling, and structural repairs. Alternative methods reducing the needs of coring and cause no damage or limited superficial local damage to the structure are becoming more popular



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