AB Consultants, Inc. (AB) is a multidisciplinary engineering and engineering support services Certified SBE/DBE/MBE firm, founded in 1993.
AB provides professional services in Land Surveying, Land Planning, Environmental Sciences (Wetlands, Streams, Forests), Stream Restoration Design, Landscape Architecture, Site Civil & Highway Engineering, Hydraulic/Hydrologic Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Site Assessments, Geotechnical Engineering, Utility Engineering, Site Structural, Subsurface Utility Exploration (Designations and Test Holes/Pits), Construction Management and Inspection, Materials Sampling and Testing, and CCTV Pipleine Inspection with Pipeline Flushing.
Since its inception in 1993, AB has developed a highly successful track record for providing their services to both public and private sectors. After successful delivery for traditional design-bid-build projects AB targeted being part of design-build projects. Consequently, AB gained an understanding and approach which can benefit any client relationship in a variety of configurations and scenarios. This design-build understanding combined with AB’s planning, engineering, and construction inspection experience, allows AB to emphasize value engineering, constructability reviews, and economic solutions. AB takes pride in providing designs which lead to cost effective, change order free, construction projects for owners. For Design-Build contracts, AB works with the Design-Build contractor to have continuous quality control checks by the contractor throughout the design process. This facilitates a cost effective “bullet proof” design which is highly “construction friendly” and satisfies all of the owner’s expectations. Construction Friendly equates to savings for the client while still providing high quality and working within all applicable regulations.

This design-build philosophy we refer to as “Total Project Management Mindset”; a Total Project Management Mindset ensures project completion is on time, work is of high quality, and the project is most cost effective as a total project (design, permits, construction). Our successful history, as being part of design-build teams, for county, federal, and private clients, has established an enviable track record, especially for a small business.
The engineers within AB Consultants, Inc., having been part of the design-build process and projects, and having this “Total Project Management Mindset”, function much better as engineers to the betterment of the project and fulfillment of client needs and objectives.
AB Consultants, Inc. is unique in another fashion: AB has diverse services. AB, although a small, minority business, has the services diversity of many large firms, and even offers services which many large firms do not. AB has in-house soil drilling and a materials laboratory which has been assessed by AMRL and is enrolled in the AMRL fine aggregate, course aggregate, CBR and soil proficiency sample programs. AB Consultants at one time having a construction division, is not afraid of offering heavy equipment dependent services such as utility test hole excavation using air vacuum trucks, and performing pipeline flushing with a jetter/vac truck supporting CCTV pipeline assessments which is also equipment dependent.
Combine the engineering, environmental services and field services, and you have AB, a “one-stop shop” for most civil engineering design projects.
AB, a small business with large business services.
Our Team
Senior Management
President
Amrish A. Patel, PE
Phone: (301) 306-3091
Senior Vice President
Kirk McClelland, PE
Phone: (443) 729-2701
Land Surveying
Manager
Vernon Kelly, PLS
Phone: (240) 582-8030
Pipeline Assessments
Pipeline Flushing
CCTV Pipeline Assessments
Manager
Steven D. Foster
Phone: (443) 729-2705
Marketing & Business Development
Manager
Michael Morse, FE/EIT
Phone:(240) 582-8002
Geotechnical Structure Engineering & Inspections
Manager
Kim-Hou Chan, PE
Phone: (240) 582-8028
Site Structural
Manager
Amrish A. Patel, PE
Phone: (301) 306-3091
Subsurface Utility Exploration
Manager
Vladimir Antonov, PLS
Phone:(443) 729-2703
Engineering
Highway, Utility, & Site Civil Engineering, Planning
& Environmental Division
Manager
Sanjay Patel, PE
Phone: (240) 582-8021
Water Resources Engineering
Manager
Saifuddin Ahmed, PE
Phone: (443) 729-2713