Infrastructure Engineering
Goodheart & Associates, PLLC provides program management, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and water resources engineering services. Operating across commercial, industrial, utility, transportation, municipal, and institutional sectors, the practice delivers technical solutions for complex infrastructure projects. It was founded by Gary Goodheart, a licensed professional engineer with over 45 years of experience executing projects across numerous states and countries.
Registered Engineering Design Firm in Illinois (No. 184.008302-0002) · Engineering Firm in Texas (No. F-21548) · Certificate of Authority in Montana (No. PEL-EF-LIC-62290)
Gary GoodheartPrincipal Engineer
Provides comprehensive oversight, strategic planning, feasibility studies, and pre-construction and construction phase coordination for public and private infrastructure initiatives.
Delivers foundational earthwork, grading, structural engineering, and subsurface investigations to support diverse land and utility developments.
Offers environmental assessments, remedial design, permitting, and comprehensive solid and hazardous waste management solutions.
Designs critical stormwater, flood control, water storage, and utility pipelines to manage aquatic infrastructure safely.
Manufacturing · Industrial · Oil & Gas · Petrochemical · Power Generation · Nuclear · Renewable Energy · Transportation · Highways & Roads · Rail · Bridges · Airports · Environmental & Remediation · Waste Management · Water Resources · Wastewater · Mining · Government · Defense · Healthcare · Commercial · Marine
Hammond, IN · Industrial
Provided senior geotechnical consulting and civil site design for a potash loading, unloading, and storage facility. Designed foundations for a 100-foot-tall load out tower and a 674-foot-long barrel storage building, managing access roads, stormwater systems, utilities, and a temporary shoring system for deep excavations.
Montana, Idaho, and Washington · Transit · Client: Amtrak
Managed the civil design of non-track station improvements and ADA upgrades across 19 stations on Amtrak's Empire Builder line. Scope included concrete platform reconstructions, walkways, handrails, drainage design, lighting, and specialized signage.
DuPage County, IL · Highways & Roads
Led geotechnical investigations, drainage designs, and Phase II contract plan preparations for a six-lane mainline toll facility, overhead bridges, retaining structures, culverts, and bio-swale detention structures.
Kentucky · Bridges · Client: CSX
Served as senior consultant for the geotechnical investigation, deep foundation analysis, and drainage design for the replacement of two timber trestle bridges, utilizing steel pipe piles to support the new structures.