Education

Auburn Hall, PLS

Associate / Raleigh Survey Department Manager

Auburn brings over 48 years of experience to his role as Raleigh Survey Department Manager. He has extensive experience in survey staff management, survey compliance with health and safety programs, and survey quality control.

He has performed or supervised railroad and highway surveys; horizontal and vertical control surveys; and route surveys, topographic surveys, and construction layout surveys using conventional instruments, GPS, and robotic instruments. Other areas of expertise include land boundary retracement surveys involving land records research and determination of boundary evidence.

Auburn is a member of the NC Society of Surveyors and a past President, past Secretary/Treasurer for the Eastern Chapter, NC Society of Surveyors.

Andy Howell, PE, CFM

Associate / Senior Hydraulics Engineer

Andy is a Professional Engineer and Certified Floodplain Manager in North Carolina with over 15 years of specialized experience in hydraulic and water resources engineering.

Specifically, his experience involves hydraulic analysis and design of both urban and rural roadway facilities; sedimentation and erosion control design and permitting; flood modeling and FEMA compliance coordination for floodplain development projects; and stormwater design and permitting of industrial facilities under the NPDES program.

Andy holds a BS in Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University and is Level III certified for sedimentation and erosion control design for the NCDOT. He is also Rosgen Level II trained in the classification of natural channel systems.

Ben Crawford, PE

Vice President / Transportation Director

Ben has more than 17 years of experience providing transportation solutions to improve safety and accessibility in communities across North Carolina. His depth of experience includes specialties in roadway design, Complete Streets, greenway design, traffic control, noise analysis, and signing and pavement marking.

Additionally, Ben has experience in utility conflict and relocation, site/civil design, storm drainage design, water distribution and sewer collection design, and traffic surveys. He is also certified by the FHWA for traffic noise models.

Ben’s responsibilities as Transportation Director include leading SEPI’s Hydraulic Design, Roadway Design, and Traffic Engineering groups and serving in an advisory role for a variety of complex transportation projects including traditional and design-build delivery methods.

Ben has also successfully managed numerous Federally-funded municipal projects and projects financed under the Locally Administered Projects Program (LAPP) for clients such as the City of Raleigh, City of Durham, and Town of Cary among others.

Ben holds a BS in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and is a member of the American Society of Highway Engineers and the American Public Works Association – NC Chapter.

Michael Case, PLS

Associate / Charlotte Survey Department Manager

Michael has extensive knowledge and over 45 years of experience in various areas of land surveying services. His areas of practice include transportation, environmental, residential land development, water/waste water resources, and telecommunications.

His responsibilities include project management, budgetary control, and overall QA/QC for a variety of boundary, topographic, construction, control, and GPS survey projects for private, public, and federal clients. His expertise also encompasses planning studies, mapping, and construction layout as well as review of numerous large and complex public, municipal, land development, commercial, and industrial projects.

Michael holds an AAS in Civil Engineering from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and is a member of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors.

Steve Miller, PE

Associate / Traffic Design Manager

Steve has 16 years of experience and is highly skilled in the design and coordination of transportation management plans (TMPs), signing plans, work zone traffic control, and pavement markings. Steve is qualified in TMP work zone levels of significance 1-4 and has completed traffic control design for interstates, rural and urban road widenings, and bridge structures statewide.

Steve’s expertise spans traffic operations for multimodal facilities including detour design, temporary signing and delineation, and phased construction methods for maintaining traffic flow and pedestrian safety.

Prior to joining SEPI, Steve held civil engineering positions in the private sector and with the NCDOT’s Work Zone Traffic Control Unit.

Steve holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and is a member of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).