Engineering

Engineering staff provides technical review and support for all private development within the City of Fayetteville. The technical review includes reviews for compliance with the City’s water, sanitary sewer, street design, grading, and stormwater runoff standards and ordinances. This program includes support of the Planning Department and Planning Commission at the development review meetings.

Engineering Division staff regularly coordinate and collaborate with the Development Services Department during development review.

The Engineering Division

Provides design and project management for city infrastructure projects.
Reviews development proposals for compliance with city criteria such as water, sewer, streets, drainage, grading and other technical requirements.
Manages the planning, design, and permitting of trails projects and oversees construction of trails by the Transportation Division or private contractors.
Assists in the acquisition and sale of city property, right of way, easements, etc.
Manages miscellaneous stormwater and water quality initiatives.
Is responsible for ensuring compliance with
- The City's NPDES Stormwater Permit issued through the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.
- The City's floodplain regulations.

Aerial View of Flyover Looking East
Fabricating Flyover curved steel girder in Missouri plant
Laying out Flyover girders in Missouri steel plant
"Dry-Fit" assembly of Flyover bridge at plant before being shipped to job site
Laydown of Flyover curved girder at plant to check tolerances
Freshly poured concrete for Flyover bridge pier foundation
Reinforcing steel for cast in place concrete pier for Flyover bridge
Concrete pier formwork with steel reinforcing bars for Flyover bridge
Flyover concrete pier after forms removed
Crane off-loading newly fabricated & delivered weathering steel girder for Flyover bridge
Setting Flyover curved steel girder on top of concrete pier
Setting Flyover curved weathering steel girder
Connecting Flyover steel girders
Setting Flyover steel girders at night
Bolting Flyover steel girders at night
Setting Flyover steel girders at night
Aerial View of Flyover Looking South

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the nearest survey monument?

The nearest survey monument can be found using this map:

How do I convert a metric meter to the English foot?

There is some confusion surrounding the correct value to use when converting the English "foot" measurement to the metric "meter" measurement and vice versa. This confusion stems from the fact that there are two, though slightly different, conversion factors that may be used in this process. Foot-Meter Conversion Factors: Both values • 0.304 800 609 6012 and • 0.3048 are correct factors that can be used for converting feet to meters. How is it possible to have two values for the same conversion? To gain an understanding of how this is possible, and why it is allowed to continue, it is necessary to take a brief look at the history of the metric system within the United States. History The metric system was developed during the French Revolution in the late 1700's. It was first promoted in the United States by Thomas Jefferson and in 1866 the US Congress officially recognized the metric system as a legal system of units. In 1893, the Office of Weights and Measures (now the National Bureau of Standards), fixed the value of the U.S. "yard" in terms of the meter as follows: • 1 yard = 3600/3937 meter or 1 yard = 0.914 401 8288 meter this relation is equivalent to: • 1 foot = 12/39.37 meter or 1 foot = 0.304 800 609 6012 meter Unfortunately, other nations used a slightly different conversion factor. To solve this deviation, a refinement was made in the definition of the yard to bring the US yard and the yard used in other countries into agreement. In 1959 the national standards laboratories of the English-speaking nations agreed to standardize the relation between the yard and the meter as follows: • 1 yard = 0.9144 meter • 1 foot = 0.3048 meter • 1 inch = 25.4 millimeter The new length of yard is shorter by exactly two parts in a million. At the same time it was decided that any data in feet derived from and published as a result of geodetic surveys within the U.S. would remain with the old standards (1 foot = 12/39.37 meter) pending any further decisions. This foot measurement is called the U.S. Survey foot. This then, is how we came to have two values for foot-meter conversions. One value, (1 foot = 12/39.37 meter), should be used when converting a measurement that is based on geodetic surveys. The other value, (1 foot = 0.3048 meter), should be used for any other conversions that are not related to geodetic data. Whichever value is used, it should be used consistently throughout that project.

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