About French Engineering
Overview
French Engineering, LLC (FE) is a transportation engineering consulting firm located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 15 minutes from Uniontown, PA and 20 minutes from Morgantown, WV. Founded in May 2004 by Millie S. French, M.S.C.E., P.E. and Lloyd J. French III, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP, LEED Green Associate (Jim), we provide expertise in traffic and safety engineering, water resources engineering, and sustainable infrastructure planning and design.
Our primary market area is Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. We are interested in providing services in whole or in partnership with other firms.
Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
We are a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. We are certified through the Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program and the Bureau of Minority and Women Business Opportunities as a Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE).
In addition, we are certified as a Small Diverse Business by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services.
Our Software & Equipment
Our traffic engineering staff currently utilizes Synchro, the Highway Capacity Software (HCS), SIDRA, Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE), Highway Safety Software, and Vissim for traffic analysis, as well as custom-designed spreadsheets. We have 10 video cameras and mounting systems, 9 JAMAR turning movement count boards, 8 JAMAR Automated Traffic Recorder (ATR) counters, and JAMAR Black Cat II Radar for field traffic data collection. We also have an electronic ball bank indicator for horizontal curve evaluation, and a radar gun for spot speed studies.
We use Microstation or AutoCad for computer-aided drafting as requested by the client. We also are fluent with AutoTurn and SignCAD for specialized traffic-related engineering / drafting applications.
Our water resources staff uses a wide range of hydrologic and hydraulic software packages to ensure the correct tool is used for each job. These include HEC-RAS with RAS Mapper, Watershed Modeling System (WMS), HY-8 for culvert hydraulics, EFH 2, TR-55, PSU-IV, and the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM).
