We read the ground and move water by hand — gravity first, stone and grade before pumps and pipe. Proven designs where they fit. Field prototypes where your ground deserves better questions.
The mark on our homepage is a puquio — five resources spiraling to a center. That isn’t decoration. It’s the school we build in.
Most water problems have a known solution. If your site calls for a French drain, a buried pipe, or a regraded swale — that’s what we build.
Can we keep the tree? Can the drainage be the landscape? Can we understand why the ground behaves this way? Then the work becomes a pilot project on your own land.
Engineers don’t experiment on every bridge. They use established designs where they fit, and reserve research for the sites that need it — innovation isn’t making every project experimental; it’s knowing which projects deserve it. We’ll tell you plainly which kind of site you have.
Read the site’s existing hydrology. Where the water actually moves — not where the plans say it should.
An initial intervention shaped by field conditions. A working prototype in real material, on real grade.
Performance is judged during natural rain events. We come back in the storm and watch the water grade our work.
Where the water disagrees with the design, the design changes — geometry, materials, grade.
The long-term solution, documented — what was tried, what the site taught, what holds.
We come back after storms.
Where the water actually moved. Where sediment settled. Where roots interfered. Where the assumption was wrong. Written down, every time — so the next design is built on evidence from this ground, not intuition about ground in general.
90 minutes on your ground. Free. Then we tell you which kind of site you have.
Book a Site Read →Field engineering is our name for this craft — reading ground and moving water by hand, in a lineage older than the license. Where a project needs a stamp, we work with licensed engineers and surveyors rather than around them.