Transportation
Transportation systems shape how communities grow, connect and thrive. From long-range planning to construction, projects across the country call for innovative design, cost-effective construction and alternate delivery methods that supports safe and efficient travel for all users. Owners are increasingly challenged to deliver more value, faster — while managing risk, funding constraints and stakeholder expectations.
From Plan to Pavement: Vision for the Transportation Market
Transportation projects are most successful when they are guided by a clear, comprehensive vision that aligns priorities across planning, funding, design and construction. Our end-to-end services help clients define the right projects, identify and secure funding for capital investments, and deliver infrastructure that reflects long-term goals and community values.
This integrated approach streamlines stakeholder coordination, fosters early buy-in and helps uncover cost and schedule efficiencies. By aligning vision with execution, we help owners move projects into delivery with confidence — improving outcomes for mobility, operations and future development.
The Burns & McDonnell Advantage
Our integrated teams work side by side from the earliest stages, reducing handoffs, managing risk and improving decision-making throughout the project life cycle.
We support clients through a range of delivery methods, including construction management, design-build (DB), progressive design-build (PDB) and engineer-procure-construct (EPC). These models allow us to align strategies to funding realities and client priorities, and advance early cost and schedule control.
Our teams provide risk assessment, constructability reviews, early cost estimates, 4D scheduling, utility coordination and innovative traffic control to enhance project outcomes in planning and design. Our construction professionals bring real-world delivery insight into planning and design, helping mitigate risk and avoid costly surprises. Together, our planners, designers and builders operate as one team — focused on delivering reliable, cost-effective outcomes that reflect community and operational priorities.
Serving a Broad Range of Clients
We offer flexible services tailored to all types of transportation infrastructure owners. Our transportation work spans state DOTs, toll authorities, counties, cities, regional agencies, railroads, port authorities and private-sector partners. This diverse client base reflects the wide range of transportation systems we support — from local street networks and bridge replacements to interstate corridors, industrial access routes and freight-focused infrastructure. We tailor each project to the community, environment and operational needs it serves, adapting our approach to meet owner priorities and local conditions.
Delivering Transportation Projects That Create Lasting Value
Transportation projects today face increasing economic pressures, complex stakeholder environments and heightened expectations around schedule and performance. An integrated approach helps control costs, mitigate risk across design and delivery, and accelerate schedules to move projects into construction more efficiently.
Early alignment around priorities and constraints also streamlines coordination among agencies, partners and communities. The result is predictable delivery and infrastructure that enhances mobility, safety and economic vitality.
