About Us
Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates Inc., P.S. (JWM&A) was established in 1978 by our founder, Jerome W. Morrissette, P.E. JWM&A provides civil, municipal, geotechnical and land surveying professional services to clients located primarily in western Washington and Oregon. Our clients include municipalities, Counties, the State of Washington, the Federal Government, Ports, Public Utility Districts, School Districts, and publicly formed organizations and individuals.
Since 1978, JWM&A has served as City Engineers for approximately twelve (12) western Washington Communities and provided civil engineering professional services for many other cities and government agencies. The firm has been involved in all facets of public works projects, from feasibility study through the necessary construction services. In 1991, we added geotechnical engineering to our menu of professional services. Members of our firm are also licensed in Oregon, and California. In 2009, JWM&A incorporated Land Surveying services into our menu of professional services with the addition of Dennis Baker, P.L.S. (formerly Geomatics Land Surveying). Currently JWM&A is owned by five (5) licensed engineers and one (1) licensed land surveyor. JWM&A is committed to a business philosophy of outstanding service to our clients.
JWM&A has furnished computer aided drafting and design services for governmental and private clients involving complex design requirements calling for experience, skill and judgment on our part. Our CADD equipment is fully capable of providing the speed, complexity and flexibility required in multiple drafting disciplines. JWM&A has a complete service which includes full color plotting, digitizing and document/photograph scanning which also assists with presentations, proposed drawings, detail and designs. Our firm's equipment is updated often and replaced with more technically advanced hardware as it becomes available. Our firm has been lauded for its ability to accomplish drafting services on time as well as for the high quality of the completed projects. Our goal is to provide exceptional work and to conscientiously respond to the client requirements in the agreed upon time frame. Although quality is never sacrificed, we consider meeting time lines to be of paramount importance.
JWM&A will be involved in our projects not only as engineers or construction managers, but as the people who are benefiting from cleaner waterways, safer streets and cleaner drinking water.
JWM&A will perform our professional services with the welfare of the client in mind.
JWM&A has completed "thousands" of roadway and drainage improvement projects and also has successful performance on over 750 water systems, since our firm's inception in 1978.
JWM&A believes it is our responsibility to provide design decisions from the perspective of environmental impact, as well as cost, maintenance, and practicality. Our firm has adopted sustainable solutions as a standard design practice. We strive to reduce the impact of site development, and not just on the projects that are "going green". In the green building movement, our role as civil engineers is significant and multifaceted. As land development displaces nature, it requires us to integrate sustainability goals into designs, from site layout and materials selection (such as pervious asphalt or concrete which decreased runoff) to stormwater management and erosion control. JWM&A has expertise in, and strives for Low Impact Development (LID). Beginning the design with a stormwater concept plan is the key to mitigating the effects of land development.
JWM&A utilizes Low Impact Development (LID) in our designs, which is characterized as a sustainable stormwater practice. LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage sustainable stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product. Such as irrigation systems, rain gardens, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, and permeable pavements and bio-retention facilities. LID can be applied to new development, redevelopment, or as retrofits to existing development. LID has been adapted to a range of land uses from high density ultra-urban settings to low density development. By implementing LID principles and practices, water can be managed in a way that reduces the impact of built areas and promotes the natural movement of water within an ecosystem or watershed.