Welcome To Tom Gillette's Website

TOM GILLETTE, P.E.

Thank you for visiting my website. Hopefully you will find this site interesting and informative and allow you to get an idea of my experience background, special services I can provide and to see some of the heavy civil infrastructure projects that I have completed in the past. Be sure to view my photograph pages so you have an understanding of how I can help you on your next complex design or construction project.   

BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION 

Tom Gillette graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. He has lived and worked in Houston, Texas throughout his professional career and is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer in Texas. The majority of his experience is in the Houston area helping local governments and private entities plan, design and construct infrastructure using Civil Engineering Services. Tom has a vast amount of varied experience that includes civil engineering design, construction management and failure investigations of failed infrastructure.

What can Tom Gillette do to help you? Get your project back on schedule? Help your project remain profitable? Complete your project on-time and within budget and get another project from the same Client? Mentor your young Engineers? Prepare a quantity takeoff for your project? Perform a quality control review of your construction drawings and specifications? Design a pipeline under the 610 Loop Freeway in Houston, Texas for you? Perform a pipeline route evaluation for you? Design an elevated pipe bridge over a stream or bayou for you? Need help with tunnels, casing pipe, large concrete structures? Help you recover from a Client that keeps changing their mind about the design? Help you mitigate the damages from a low bid Contractor? The bottom line is that Tom can help you stay on track to produce quality design projects that produce repeat customers or ensure that your project gets constructed the way you designed it. 

Tom enjoys being a Resident Engineer. A set of eyes on the construction site that represent the Owner's interest in ensuring that the construction is performed in accordance with the contract drawings and specifications. Large diameter underground pipelines are special for Tom although roadway reconstruction, bridges, airports, water and wastewater treatment plants are also exciting. Tom likes to get involved in construction projects that are new to him so he is looking forward to something different and exciting like a power plant expansion, refinery upgrades or oil and gas pipeline construction or rehabilitation.

Infrastructure Program Management is another favorite for Tom. Tom provides oversight during design that includes constructability reviews and working directly with the Design Engineers. This type of management ensures a design that saves time and dollars and is easier to construct without those costly construction change orders. That familarity with the design development allows for a smooth transition into and through the construction management phase keeping complex construction projects simple, efficient and straight forward.  

Lets build your next project together. 

LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS 

Tom's experience background includes Program Management, Project Management, Construction Management and Civil Design Oversight. Tom has been involved in some huge infrastructure projects in Houston that include the City of Houston's Surface Water Transmission Program, The Greater Houston Wastewater Program, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Downtown/Midtown Transit Streets Program and The Brays Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project for the Harris County Flood Control District. Tom spent two years in Mississippi helping the State recover from Hurricane Katrina. He was part of a recovery team contracted to FEMA through AECOM.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS 

Tom was a member of the construction management team that provided construction oversight for the City of Houston's 69th Street Wastewater Treatment Plant. Tom was a member of the Parsons Brinkinhoff Design Team overseeing design improvements at Houston's Intercontinental Airport during 911. Tom served as Resident Engineer on the Tidwell Road Bridge at Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas. Tom has been involved in several large underground tunnel projects throughout Houston that included tunnel boring machines and short tunnels utilizing hand mining. Tom was the Resident Engineer for eighteen City of Houston wastewater improvement projects during the Greater Houston Wastewater Program. Tom provided oversight and construction management for an experimental trenchless technology flood grouting sewer repair project on refinery process sewers in Corpus Christi.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Some of the specialized construction methodoligies Tom provides oversight and consulting for include: Open cut trenching, horizontal boring, micro tunneling, large diameter tunneling, wood box tunnels, timber lagging tunnels, steel liner plate tunnels, casing pipe installation, tunnel shaft construction, pipe annulus grouting, hand mining, pipe jacking, sliplining, pipe bursting, cure-in-place pipe, external pressure grouting, chemical flood grouting, drainage structures, drilled shafts, spread footings and cathodic protection systems.