Cochran is an engineering and architecture firm in Fenton, Missouri.
The firm’s own site sets out six service lines: civil engineering, architecture, municipal engineering, construction services, environmental and geotechnical services, and land surveying. It works across commercial and retail, government, transportation, institutional, water resource management, residential development and industrial markets. Its construction services include construction inspection and materials testing rather than building work itself, which is what distinguishes a firm like this from a contractor.
For a public or commercial project, the practical value of a single firm holding design, survey, geotechnical and inspection under one roof is that the handoffs between them are internal. The trade-off, when the same firm both designs and inspects, is worth understanding before it is agreed.
Missouri licenses architects, professional engineers and land surveyors through the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects, which publishes a licensee search. Licenses are held by individuals and by the firm separately, so a check names the person as well as the company.