Infrastructure solutions for communities, regions, and states
RETTEW understands the challenge of governing. From the smallest rural borough to the largest capital city, one thing remains constant: the responsibility to help your community prosper while maintaining critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, water systems, and public facilities.
Leading a community requires balancing the mounting pressures of constrained budgets, aging infrastructure, shifting populations, and changing climate patterns. Success requires strategic planning, public trust, and effective stakeholder coordination.
For more than 40 years, RETTEW has partnered with government officials at all levels to meet these challenges. Our work spans the full spectrum of municipal needs, from infrastructure assessment and funding strategy to comprehensive planning, stormwater management, environmental protection, public engagement, permitting, and transportation solutions. In fact, more than 180 municipalities have entrusted us as their engineer of record, and we’ve formed lasting partnerships with state Departments of Transportation and county planning departments.
This experience makes a difference. Often, the gap between vision and reality is funding. Through our significant grant expertise, RETTEW has secured more than $285 million in federal, state, and local grants and loans for our clients. This success, combined with efficient and cost-effective planning, transforms ambitious goals into built solutions.
The Market Realities Shaping Government Decisions
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates a $2.6 trillion national infrastructure funding gap. Bridges, roadways, water systems, and facilities built decades ago now need repair or replacement, yet government revenues aren’t keeping pace with operational expenses, and federal funding continues to decline. The challenge intensifies as new development increases demand on legacy systems designed for past populations.
Faced with these compounding pressures, local, county, and state governments must assess conditions rigorously, prioritize projects strategically, and maximize limited resources. That’s where RETTEW comes in. We serve as an extension of your team, providing the engineering capacity, strategic insight, and technical resources you need to assess conditions, prioritize investments, and compete effectively for funding.
How RETTEW Assists Government Clients
Infrastructure Assessment and Strategic Prioritization – We evaluate roads, bridges, water systems, and facilities, estimate remaining lifespan, and analyze lifecycle costs. Whether supporting a township with limited staff or a state DOT managing thousands of assets, our assessments help you prioritize improvements within budget constraints, develop realistic plans, and make investments that maximize public safety. We help you understand the true cost of deferring maintenance and build the case for strategic investment.
Comprehensive Planning and Asset Management – RETTEW works with elected officials, planning staff, and community members to develop plans that balance growth, fiscal sustainability, and quality of life. Whether updating local zoning ordinances, developing county comprehensive plans, conducting state-level corridor studies, or creating transportation asset management plans, we help you create frameworks that guide responsible investment. Our planning services integrate land use, transportation, environmental protection, and stakeholder coordination, positioning you for success.
Stormwater Management and MS4 Compliance – We help you navigate evolving MS4 requirements by developing comprehensive stormwater master plans that address regulatory compliance and build climate resilience. We conduct hydraulic modeling, design efficient detention and treatment facilities, implement green infrastructure solutions, and develop pollution prevention programs—creating systems that manage increased precipitation, improve water quality, and enhance communities while meeting regulatory standards.
Project Funding Strategy and Grant Development – Navigating federal, state, and local funding programs requires expertise most governments don’t maintain internally. RETTEW identifies opportunities, develops competitive applications, conducts benefit-cost analyses, and manages approval processes. Our track record of securing close to $288 million for our clients demonstrates our understanding of what makes applications successful.
Design, Permitting, and Construction Administration – From preliminary design through construction administration, we provide planning and engineering expertise that keeps projects on schedule and within budget. We manage permitting with regulatory agencies, facilitate public engagement and community input, and ensure seamless coordination at every project phase.
Why Governments Partner with RETTEW
Government officials need partners who understand fiscal realities, infrastructure complexity, and the diverse priorities of residents and elected officials. RETTEW has more than four decades of experience serving municipalities, counties, and state agencies. We understand the constraints you face and the need to do more with less.
At RETTEW, we take time to understand your vision, priorities, and constraints. We’re not just your consulting partner, we’re your neighbors, with a stake in the success of the communities we also call home. Our team excels at maximizing what you have by finding innovative ways to improve and advance your goals while meeting your budget and timeline.
Whether you need planning expertise, engineering services, grant strategy, infrastructure solutions, or all these working together, RETTEW is committed to solving your most pressing challenges.
Let’s Build the Future Your Community Deserves
RETTEW is ready to partner with you on your most pressing priorities. Let’s discuss how we can help deliver the investments that will strengthen your region for generations to come.
Local government
Local officials face endless demands with limited resources and staff. See how RETTEW helps municipalities accomplish more.
State and county government
Regional infrastructure demands require partners who understand scale, complexity, and competing priorities. Discover how we help state and county agencies deliver results.
