McAdams Tech Stack
Civil engineering, land planning, and design services across the Southeast and beyond
McAdams is a 500+ person AEC firm anchored in Autodesk Civil 3D, ArcGIS, and specialized hydraulic modeling tools (HEC-RAS, WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, SewerGEMS). The tech stack is stable—no active adopting or replacing signals—but the hiring mix reveals an engineering-driven organization scaling: 79 of 103 open roles are engineering, with 37 seniors and 23 mid-level hires, alongside emerging practice areas (water/wastewater, data center expansion). Active projects span water, stormwater, transportation, and flood resilience, while pain points cluster around scope creep, budget management, and national expansion.
Tech Stack 24 technologies
What McAdams Is Building
◆Challenges
- Expanding data center practice
- Budget constraints
- Ensuring profitability
- Financial performance
- Complex technical problems
- Budget overruns
- Scope creep
- Expanding capabilities nationally
- Tight deadlines
- Complex multi-disciplinary projects
▲Active Projects
- Hydraulic design and hydrologic analysis for multimodal transportation projects
- Fema flood studies
- Stream restoration projects
- Build and operate profitable water wastewater practice
- Multi-use path design
- Stormwater design reports
- Develop strategic market sector plans
- Greenways projects
- Offsite roadway improvements for public roads associated with private development projects
- Drainage design projects
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Water Wastewater Lead, Crew Chief, Energy Director
