Harmsen was founded by Bill Harmsen and Dave Boersema in Monroe, WA in 1974. Through various acquisitions, we have extended our expertise and service areas via offices in Oak Harbor, WA in 2007, Mount Vernon, WA in 2011, and in 2016, Alpha Subdivision Professionals, Inc., in Everett. These acquisitions have augmented Harmsen's rich survey records archive with those of Leonard, Boudinot & Skodje, Fakkema & Kingma, Inc., Meriwether Leachman Associates, Inc., and Evergreen Surveying, Inc. Harmsen engineers, surveyors, planners, and skilled office staff are absolutely the key to our success.
Our project expertise ranges from private residences to large scale commercial, industrial, medical and educational projects. We have completed over 10,000 projects using one or all of our services. Our teams are highly conscientious, well-educated and care about your project. We feature Land Surveying, Construction Staking, Land Use Planning, and Civil Engineering. We have strong relationships with sub consultants, architects, contractors and other building specialists to help your project meet your vision.
Harmsen's services provide a beneficial checks and balances component to your project. Our personnel, as teammates, regularly review all aspects of your project from their unique perspective. This exposure creates efficient, easy-to-understand surveys, plans, specifications and estimates. We are told regularly that this saves time and money through the rest of the project. Our civil engineers, land surveyors, land use planners, wetland specialists, and supporting personnel look forward to creating properties for you that enhance value, are sustainable, are low maintenance, and are great places to be!
Harmsen has practiced sustainable, low impact design for well over 25 years. Our company is passionate about creating useful places, that honor our quality of life. We base our company philosophy largely on the concept of treating the land and our clients with respect. We have gone so far as to certify and specially train our personnel in sustainable practices; including 2 LEED Accredited Professional Civil Engineers. Our engineers are well versed in many areas of professional practice. We have experience and expertise in projects ranging from new multi-million dollar projects to designs for single family homes.
Understanding the needs of the variety of commercial project sites is critical to a profitable, well used, community based site. We have worked on commercial sites that include urban sites to rural sites with big box commercial, master planned shopping centers, restaurants, strip malls, recreation and fitness facilities, warehouses, mini-storage, high rises, and mixed use. We provide a variety of Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Land Use Planning, and Survey services. Our experience covers many areas of mixed-use and commercial sites that will fit your development needs.