Right of Way Engineering

F&A provides right-of-way services primarily to public agencies in Washington State, and our team members are familiar with the relevant standards.
Services include:

• Alignments with bearings and distances shown on base maps and drawings
• Monumentation
• Utility locations
• Temporary construction easements
• ALTA survey maps for full parcel takes
• Airspace Lease documents for right-of-way impacts
• Documenting all access rights of way, including roadway paving and drainage, intersections, and crosswalks

F&A also creates project base maps and easement exhibits for alignments, including surveying and locating public and private utility infrastructure for utility mapping. F&A provides topographic surveys of surface features in full detail, including:

• Intersections, including building lines/corners
• Traffic striping and pavement markings
• Traffic signal equipment
• Signal heads
• Overhead utilities and supports
• Overhead trolley wires and supports

F&A also provides underground utility location and potholing surveying.

Representative Projects:

• Sound Transit LINK Light Rail (Lynnwood Link, Federal Way Link, North Link, East Link, South Link and Central Link)
• City of Seattle Duwamish Substation
• Seattle DOT 45th Street Viaduct
• Seattle DOT Lander Street
• WSDOT I-90 Peak Use Shoulder
• City of Kirkland Greenways