Cemeteries are much more than burial places—they are lasting, sacred memorials where survivors can reflect on the past and on life. Atkins plans and designs cemeteries that provide attractive and serene locations for the living to remember and pay tribute to their loved ones.

Cemetery experience

From cemetery planning to construction administration, we offer innovative solutions to meet our clients’ goals for permanence, functionality, aesthetics, and environmental sustainability while accommodating site, schedule, and budget constraints.

Atkins conducted condition assessment surveys of 119 national cemeteries for the Veterans Administration. Services included assessment of 2.3 million gravesites on 6,000 developed acres and traditional facility assessments of approximately 6,000 buildings and associated cemetery infrastructure.

1. Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Texas

2. Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery, Texas

3. Crypt Installation, Texas

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Cemetery experience

Contact for more information:

Shad Shafie, PE 210.241.1135 shad.shafie@atkinsglobal.com

Project experience

As prime consultant, Atkins has overseen multidisciplinary teams of engineers, architects, and environmental consultants in the provision of planning, design, and construction administration services for four new state veterans cemeteries in Texas. Each cemetery has been designed and constructed using money from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA) State Cemetery Grants Program.

•Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Killeen, Texas (completed 2006)

•Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery, Mission, Texas (completed 2007)

•Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Abilene, Texas (completed 2009)

•Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Texas (completed 2011)

Services provided by the Atkins team for cemetery projects include:

•Building architecture •Civil engineering•Construction inspection•Construction management•Cultural resources

consulting•Environmental consulting•Irrigation design•Landscape architecture•Land planning•Mechanical, electrical, and

plumbing engineering•Structural engineering

Design elements include:

•Administration and maintenance buildings

•Assembly areas•Burial areas: columbariums,

crypts, standard burials, in-ground cremain plots

•Chapels•Entrance features•Irrigation•Landscaping•Memorial areas and walks•Public restrooms•Site utilities•Vehicular and pedestrian

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As a subconsultant, Atkins has also provided engineering, surveying, environmental, and cultural resource services for three national veterans cemetery expansion and maintenance projects in Texas. As with all expansion and maintenance projects, this work required careful planning and construction phasing to minimize disruption to ongoing cemetery operations.

•Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery Crypt and Columbarium Expansion (completed 2009)

•Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery Phase 2 Expansion (completed 2010)

•Houston National Cemetery Phase 4 Expansion and Maintenance Project (estimated completion 2012)

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