Click photo to enlarge JOSHUA M. BOWS, P.E.

Project Manager and Civil Engineer

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Civil Engineer - Massachusetts
DEP Soil Evaluator - Massachusetts

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Civil Engineers

EDUCATION
BS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (1998)
DEP Soil Evaluator's Course (2001)

EXPERIENCE
Since joining Merrill Associates, Inc. in 2002, Mr. Bows has worked as a design engineer, and project manager for numerous residential subdivision projects, multi-unit residential projects, and commercial site plans. Responsibilities on these projects include: site layout, roadway design, drainage and septic system design, field investigation, and project coordination. Also included in a number of these projects is the preparation of Notices of Intent for compliance with the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, and a number of comprehensive drainage studies which evaluate the impact of proposed construction upon existing drainage conditions.

Prior to joining Merrill Associates, Inc. Mr. Bows acted as a project engineer on several engineering projects. As a project engineer, he was responsible for the design and preparation of plans and specifications for several commercial site plan projects, including a 100,000 square foot manufacturing plant, parking design, and a 175,000 gallons per day recharge facility; for Intel Corporation. He also was the project engineer for the civil portion of a feasibility study for locating a central heating plant for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and continued with the preparation of site plans, and a flood plain analysis for the heating plant project. He also completed several other site and drainage designs including the expansion of a large college in central Massachusetts, a retail development anchored by a home improvement retailer in Plymouth Massachusetts, and various other residential subdivision projects throughout Massachusetts.