About Us

Palmer Engineering Company, incorporated on February 25, 1969, in Winchester, KY, is a civil/structural engineering and surveying consulting firm. The mission of Palmer Engineering is to continually earn clients’ respect and trust by consistently delivering solutions-oriented, exemplary service in a responsive and financially accountable manner. Palmer has successfully completed more than 3,500 infrastructure projects for more than 1,000 clients including federal, state, and local governments, as well as private clients. Departments of Transportation and Local Public Agencies constitute Palmer’s largest business sectors.

Palmer has serves its clients through 11 offices across the Southeast including Kentucky (Winchester, Louisville, Fort Mitchell, and Lexington), Ohio (Cincinnati, Columbus, and Medina), Tennessee (Nashville), West Virginia (Teays Valley), and Florida (Jacksonville and Orlando).

The firm has over 120 employees, including Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. In addition to registered professionals in transportation engineering, traffic operations engineering, structural engineering and inspection, and land surveying, the firm has certified professionals in energy and environmental design, erosion control, and storm-water quality available to provide the highest quality engineering services.

“Palmer’s success has been – and always will be – the result of having good people, people who are problem solvers and who like the challenge of finding solutions.”

— Ralph Palmer

“The foundations of our business, honesty, and integrity, will continue to be our guideposts. Treating everyone with fairness and meeting our commitments – doing what we say we’re going to do – that won’t change. It hasn’t changed for us for three decades, and it never will..”

— Dick Nunan

Our Leadership

  • Stephen Sewell, PE, PTOE

    President

  • David Lindeman, PE, PLS

    Vice President

  • Brad Robson, PE, PhD

    Vice President

  • David Deitz, PE, PhD

    Vice President

  • Brian Ward, PE, PLS

    Vice President

  • Brian Lee, PE, CPESC, CPSWQ

    Vice President

  • Stephanie Blain, PE, LEED AP

    Vice President

  • William Conkin, PE, PTOE, PMP

    Vice President