Planning, civil engineering, and horizontal construction under one contract. We move dirt, pull permits, install utilities, pave roads, and hand vertical builders finished lots-without three vendors, three schedules, or coordination gaps.
Most developers coordinate three to five separate vendors across these five phases. We do all of them - under one contract, on one schedule, with one team responsible from raw acreage to lot delivery.
Title review, environmental screening, geotechnical investigation, jurisdictional analysis, and yield study before design begins.
Explore Phase 01Master site planning, preliminary platting, zoning or rezoning, permits, and pre-development meetings with the jurisdiction.
Explore Phase 02PE-stamped construction documents for grading, drainage, utilities, roads, erosion control, and SWPPP.
Explore Phase 03Clear, grade, fill, compact, install utilities, storm drains, paving, and erosion control by Engco crews.
Explore Phase 04Final platting, infrastructure dedication, lot-line staking, final grading verification, and certification of buildable lots.
Explore Phase 0502 - Why This Matters
Most land development teams are stitched together across separate planning consultants, civil engineers, and site contractors. The problem is not just complexity - it’s the gap between those firms. Intent gets lost, field realities arrive too late, and decisions that should take hours turn into weeks.
ENGCO removes those handoffs by keeping planning, civil engineering, and horizontal construction under one accountable team. The people who shape the plan are connected to the people who stamp the drawings and the crews who build the site.
Because planning, engineering, and field execution stay connected, the documents reflect how the project will actually be built. Road geometry, grading strategy, utility routing, and sequencing are shaped with construction reality in mind - not handed off as abstract intent.
When conditions change in the field, the response does not wait on a chain of outside consultants. The same accountable team can review the issue, coordinate the adjustment, and keep work moving with less delay, less friction, and fewer scope disputes.
Most delays happen between firms - waiting on answers, revisions, handoffs, approvals, or rework. ENGCO reduces that risk by controlling the dependencies inside one delivery structure, making schedule, budget, and lot readiness more predictable.
03 - What we develop
The same five-phase workflow scales up and down to fit the project. A 250-lot production subdivision and a 6-lot custom acreage development run through the same five phases - at different scales, with different deliverables, under the same accountability structure.
10 to 250+ lots · 20 to 400+ acres
Residential subdivisions for production homebuilders, regional builders, and developer-investors. Lots delivered to platted-and-permitted condition with utilities stubbed and roads paved. Production builder spec sheets accommodated.
2 to 20 lots · 5 to 80 acres
Smaller residential developments on family-owned or investor-held acreage. Often involves a raw-land owner who wants to develop their own land for sale, family use, or estate planning. ENGCO walks first-time developers through the process.
1 to 50+ acres · single-tract or multi-pad
Site development for commercial buildings - restaurants, retail, industrial, office, and healthcare. Grading, drainage, utilities, and parking field preparation delivered as a finished pad ready for vertical commercial construction.
2 to 30+ acres · 50 to 500+ units
Site development for apartment communities, townhome programs, and mixed-use developments. Often involves complex stormwater design, urban-scale utilities, and tight municipal coordination.
Project-specific · municipal, county, state-level
Site development for public-sector projects - schools, parks, public buildings, road extensions, and municipal infrastructure. Procurement-driven engagements with specific bid, bond, and prevailing-wage requirements.
04 - Phase 01: Due Diligence and Feasibility
Before a parcel becomes a plan set, a plat, or a construction schedule, it has to survive due diligence. ENGCO reviews the land, jurisdiction, utilities, environmental constraints, ownership conditions, access, drainage, floodplain, and probable yield so owners and developers understand what is possible - and what it will take to get there.
05 - Phase 02: Planning and Entitlements
Once feasibility is confirmed, the next step is creating a plan that can make it through review. ENGCO develops the site planning, conceptual lot layout, preliminary plat, zoning strategy, entitlement package, and jurisdiction coordination required to move the project from raw concept to an approvable development plan.
06 - Phase 03: Civil Engineering and Design
Civil engineering inside a land development project is different when the planners, engineers, project managers, and field crews stay connected. ENGCO develops permit-ready civil construction documents for grading, drainage, utilities, roads, stormwater, erosion control, and site infrastructure with buildability considered from the beginning - not after the drawings are finished.
07 - Phase 04: Site Work and Horizontal Construction
Once plans are approved and permits are in place, the project moves into the field. ENGCO self-performs the horizontal construction work - clearing, grading, utilities, drainage, roads, paving, erosion control, and final site preparation - so the team that helped shape the plan stays accountable when dirt starts moving.
08 - Phase 05: Lot Delivery
The final phase turns completed site work into finished lots that can be handed to vertical builders with clarity. ENGCO manages final grading, utility checks, roadway completion, drainage verification, inspections, punch-list closeout, record drawings, and builder turnover documentation so the project closes cleanly and the next phase can begin.
09 - Common questions
Before a project moves into planning, engineering, permitting, or construction, most clients need clear answers about feasibility, timing, cost, risk, and responsibility. These are the questions we hear most often from landowners, builders, developers, and public-sector teams before the first scope conversation.
Bring ENGCO in as early as possible - ideally before design decisions, platting assumptions, or major capital commitments are made. Early involvement lets the team review feasibility, access, utilities, drainage, zoning, floodplain, wetlands, yield, and likely development path before the project is locked into a plan that may be difficult or expensive to build.
Yes. ENGCO can support early due diligence before acquisition by reviewing the parcel, jurisdiction, access, utilities, environmental constraints, drainage conditions, floodplain, zoning, and probable yield. The goal is to help buyers understand what the land can realistically become before they close on it.
Yes. ENGCO's land development model connects planning, civil engineering, and horizontal construction under one accountable team. That means the people shaping the plan and preparing the drawings stay connected to the project managers and crews responsible for building the site.
"Dirt to deed" means ENGCO can support the full path from raw land through feasibility, planning, civil design, permitting, site work, infrastructure construction, lot delivery, and final handoff. The phrase reflects ENGCO's focus on moving land from an undeveloped tract to documented, buildable, deliverable lots or site infrastructure.
Yes. ENGCO can support planning, preliminary plats, zoning verification, rezoning coordination, special-use permits, jurisdiction meetings, development agreement coordination, HOA or deed restriction review, phasing strategy, and entitlement package preparation. The goal is to create a plan that can move through review and approval, not just look good conceptually.
ENGCO works across multiple project scales. The same five-phase workflow can support smaller custom acreage developments, boutique subdivisions, commercial pads, public infrastructure scopes, and larger production subdivisions. The process scales based on acreage, lot count, jurisdiction, infrastructure complexity, and delivery requirements.
Helpful starting information includes the parcel address or location, acreage, survey or legal description if available, ownership status, intended use, target lot count or project type, known utilities, access points, jurisdiction, timeline goals, and any existing plans, plats, reports, or permits. ENGCO can still begin the conversation if some of this information is not available yet.
ENGCO can usually begin identifying likely schedule and cost drivers during due diligence, but reliable numbers depend on site constraints, jurisdiction requirements, utility availability, drainage strategy, permitting path, construction scope, and phasing. Early estimates should be treated as planning ranges until the project has enough technical definition.
Yes. ENGCO coordinates with cities, counties, utility providers, review authorities, TxDOT-related processes when applicable, and other agencies involved in land development approvals. Jurisdiction coordination is a major part of moving a project from concept to approval and into construction.
In many cases, yes. ENGCO can review the current status of a project, including plans, permits, comments, construction progress, constraints, budgets, schedules, and unresolved issues. From there, the team can determine whether ENGCO can help move the project forward, correct gaps, support construction, or take over specific phases.
Service Areas
Explore community-specific pages across Texas. Each location expands to show the same Engco capabilities delivered with one accountable team.
