SESI Consulting Engineers Marks 50 Years As Early-Stage Feasibility Reshapes Development
Parsippany, NJ — As SESI Consulting Engineers (“SESI”) marks its 50th anniversary, the firm is addressing a fundamental shift that is reshaping real estate development across the Northeast: engineering feasibility is increasingly determining whether projects move forward long before design or approvals begin. Rising construction costs, evolving environmental regulations, infrastructure limitations, and extended municipal review timelines are driving developers to evaluate risk, cost, constructability, and sustainability at the earliest stages of site selection. As a result, geotechnical, environmental, and civil engineering input is now central to development decision-making, not simply design execution. “For fifty years, engineering often entered the process after a site was already under control and a concept was defined,” said Michael St. Pierre, President of SESI Consulting Engineers. “Today, we are involved much earlier in the process, and ...