# Findling, Inc. > Official Findling, Inc. business agent. Findling, Inc. is a geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering consulting firm based in Baltimore, Maryland… ## Ask it a question Findling, Inc. answers for itself at https://api.hailera.com/mcp/findlinginc. A client that speaks MCP can connect to that address; the tool is ask_findlinginc and the protocol is 2026-07-28. Where this file and the agent disagree, the agent is current. ## About Findling, Inc. Findling, Inc. is a small, African American owned engineering consulting firm founded in 1997, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with over 40 employees. Findling is accredited by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Accreditation Program for demonstrating proficiency in testing construction materials, meeting requirements of AASHTO R18 set by the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Materials. The company is certified as MBE/DBE/LDBE (Minority/Disadvantaged/Local Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) by multiple agencies, including the Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA) in Baltimore City, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), District Department of Transportation (DDOT), West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT), New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), and Prince George's County Department of Public Works. Findling is a member of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the Maryland Asphalt Association, and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) organizations. Leadership includes Amsalu Duressa, P.E., MSCE, President, with over 30 years of experience in geotechnical engineering, construction management, environmental site assessment and construction inspection, having managed over 500 projects in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. M. Suri Surendra, Ph.D, P.E. is Chief Engineer with over 39 years of geotechnical engineering experience and has published in the ASCE Journal. Amsalu Birhan, Ph.D, P.E. is Senior Geotechnical Engineer with over 13 years of experience in geotechnical and structural engineering and pavement design. Source: http://www.findlinginc.com/about-findling-inc.html ## What Findling, Inc. does Findling, Inc. offers geotechnical engineering, construction inspection and testing, drilling services, geotechnical instrumentation, environmental engineering, and laboratory testing from its Baltimore, Maryland office, serving Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Geotechnical engineering services include shallow and deep foundation analysis, bearing capacity and settlement analysis, pavement analysis, slope stability analysis, embankment analysis, soil stabilization (including soil mixing), seepage analysis, retaining wall design, pipeline and overhead water tank design, and stormwater management pond design with in-situ infiltration testing. Drilling services include geotechnical and environmental drilling and sampling using hollow stem augers, mud, or casing; a barge-mounted rig for drilling on water; direct push (Geoprobe); electronic cone penetrometer testing (CPT); monitoring wells installed by licensed well drillers; and lateral earth support systems. Augers range from 8-inch to 16-inch O.D., allowing installation of cased wells up to 12 inches in diameter, with double-cased wells to depths exceeding 150 feet in coastal plain deposits, and wireline equipment for coring rock to depths over 150 feet. Rigs are truck-mounted, ATV-mounted, skid-mounted, or pontoon-boat mounted. Construction inspection and testing is performed by inspectors certified by MARTCP, ACI, and various state and federal agencies, covering soils, concrete and asphalt on highways, buildings, streets, dams and hazardous waste sites; drilling inspectors hold SHA certification. Environmental engineering services include Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, preliminary assessments, site characterization and risk assessment, remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS), remedial design, underground storage tank management, regulatory criteria interpretation, permitting, air quality monitoring, stormwater runoff, and landfill and liner design. The site does not list prices, rates, or fees for any of these services; a business seeking a cost estimate or quote is expected to contact Findling directly rather than reference a published rate. Findling, Inc. is a geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering consulting firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, providing comprehensive geotechnical, civil engineering, and construction-related services in Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1997 and has grown to over 40 employees, including Professional Engineers, Geologists and Certified Technicians. Most Findling employees are assigned to the field performing construction inspection services on major highways, buildings, streets, dams and hazardous waste sites. Inspectors hold certification to inspect and test soils, concrete and asphalt from Maryland State Highways and other agencies, and employees are OSHA HAZWOPER safety certified (1610.120) to work at hazardous waste sites. Findling is accredited by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Accreditation Program for proficiency in testing construction materials, meeting AASHTO R18 requirements set by the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Materials. The company describes itself as a small, African American owned business. The site does not publish specific service pricing, cost figures, or hourly rates anywhere on the pages read; a customer wanting a price, cost estimate, or quote is directed to contact the company by phone or through its website contact form rather than referencing a posted rate sheet. Source: http://www.findlinginc.com/maryland-engineering-construction.html ## Where Findling, Inc. works Findling, Inc. is located at 3401 Carlins Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215, and can be reached by phone at 410-367-1400. The company's stated areas served are Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia and Pennsylvania; the Baltimore address is described elsewhere on the site as a strategic location allowing the firm to provide services throughout this Mid-Atlantic area. The website does not publish office hours, so whether the Baltimore location is open at any particular time is not stated. There is no online system to book an appointment or schedule service directly through the website; instead, the contact page provides a request form asking for name, organization, phone number(s), email address, city and state, and a description of the work requested. Submitting this form, or calling the phone number directly, is how a prospective client can contact Findling to discuss a project, and presumably to request a price, cost estimate, or quote — though the site does not publish sample prices, rates, or fees for any service, and no specific turnaround time for a quote response is stated. The site states a privacy commitment: information submitted through the contact form is confidential and will not be sold, shared, or transferred. Lists Montgomery, Baltimore, and Enterprise as a location. Names Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Baltimore as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published. Source: http://www.findlinginc.com/contact.html ## Equipment Findling, Inc. owns and operates its own field investigation, drilling, and laboratory testing equipment. For field investigation work the company reports having 4 trucks and two ATV rigs. The company's soil and concrete laboratory is accredited by the AASHTO Material Reference Laboratory (AMRL) and participates in the AMRL Proficiency Sample Program. Laboratory testing equipment includes a 300,000 lb Test Mark Digital Compressive Strength machine, Atterberg Limit devices, sieve shakers, consolidometers, and CBR and unconfined compression testing machines, along with digital scales. All equipment and devices are calibrated according to AMRL requirements. Field testing equipment includes nuclear gauges and equipment for performing 1-point proctor tests in the field, plus several sets of slump cone and air meter equipment for concrete testing. The equipment page notes that photos of the field investigation, laboratory and field testing equipment can be tapped to enlarge, but does not give a full itemized inventory beyond what is described above, and does not state make, model, or purchase/lease status for equipment beyond the Test Mark compressive strength machine named. Source: http://www.findlinginc.com/findling-inc-equipment.html ## Project experience Findling, Inc. states it has provided professional engineering, construction monitoring and material testing services for over 500 small and large projects throughout Maryland and Washington DC, as well as Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company's projects page lists several highlighted engagements as examples of past work, including a geotechnical investigation at the UMBC Gateway in Baltimore, Maryland (roadway widening, a roundabout, and stormwater management facility drilling and infiltration testing); the US 113 Phase 4 design-build project in Worcester County, MD, on which Findling was part of a design team that included RJM Engineering as a subconsultant to Wallace Montgomery, the engineer of record, providing subsurface exploration, CPT and DMT in-situ testing, and a geotechnical engineering report; the Fort McHenry Tunnel Vehicle Garage project in Baltimore; and other projects named on the site including I-95 Section 100, Cox Creek, Masonville DMCF, and I-695 and MD Route 26 (the page as fetched does not give further scope detail for these last four beyond their names and locations). The site does not state whether the firms or agencies named on these past projects, such as Wallace Montgomery, currently have an active relationship with Findling — the descriptions are presented as past project work, not a current client roster. Source: http://www.findlinginc.com/findling-inc-projects.html ## What Findling, Inc. has not published yet These are things people ask Findling, Inc. that its published information does not yet cover. - prices - availability - individual engineer license numbers - project timelines - insurance coverage - contract terms - warranty terms Ask anyway — the agent will say plainly that it is not published rather than guess. ## Where this comes from http://www.findlinginc.com