Walter P Moore


Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. is an international company providing structural engineering, diagnostics, civil engineering, traffic engineering, parking consulting, facade engineering, transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems engineering, and water resources engineering services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the firm employs more than 1,000 professionals and operates 27 U.S. and nine international offices.

History

In 1931, just as America's Great Depression entered its worst years, Walter P. Moore, Sr. started his own company by selling a Stutz Bearcat he had received in lieu of employment wages. The firm's earliest projects consisted of designing foundations for residential estates at $5 each, but they would later go on to engineer the world's first domed stadium and become pioneers in moveable structures, particularly retractable roof sports stadia. Their design of State Farm Stadium includes the first retractable playing field in North America.
While the company originated as a family-owned structural engineering firm, they have since expanded their services to include comprehensive infrastructure engineering and transitioned leadership into an employee-owned company governed by a board of directors and Chief Executive Officer.

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