General Info

Waterfield Design Group was founded in 1998 by Craig Miller as a site design, transportation, infrastructure, and planning company with a difference. Within 6 months, work at the new firm rapidly arrived, starting humbly with sidewalks, drainage, ADA compliance, and parking lots. Well before the end of its first year, Waterfield was inundated with new work and began hiring full time staff to help out. Waterfield added to its state and federal transportation and infrastructure base by working extensively with a host of cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth from greater Boston, Cape Cod & the Islands to Central and Western Massachusetts. Waterfield secured new projects in Vermont and New Hampshire, reinforcing its message of vision, planning, and engineering. In 2001, Waterfield Design acquired the widely acclaimed landscape architecture practice of Paul C.K. Lu Associates, Inc Paul's landscape practice was considered by many to be one of the legacy landscape architecture firms in New England. Paul C.K. Lu Associates was welcomed into Waterfield Design after over 35 years of service and built on a 10 year professional relationship with Craig and his background of work. Adding landscape architecture to the stable of services already in place opened horizons for the firm and for our clients by completing the circuit of full service site design. In 2002, Craig was recognized as the National Young Engineer of the Year by the National Society of Professional Engineers ( NSPE ). Later that same year, the Boston Business Journal included Craig in its annual list of the 40 most influential business leaders under 40 years of age ( known as the 40 Under 40 Award ). Both of these awards acknowledged Waterfield's rapid progress and noteworthy accomplishments. In the years that followed, Waterfield would play an instrumental role in helping to design and complete the Central Artery / Tunnel project, the largest public works endeavor in the United States. Our role in this $14 billion project involved restoration of the surface arteries, roadways, parks, streetscapes, and public pedestrian spaces after the 6 lanes of traffic on the old overhead viaduct was relocated to become 10 lanes in a new underground tunnel. Waterfield worked on more CA/T surface artery sections than any other site single designer ( D001C, D0018A, D009C, and D007A ) and was responsible for leading the design for the renowned Chinatown Gate section of the project. We are proud to proclaim that our surface artery design work was separate from the cost and construction controversy that enveloped the underground tunnel portion of this complicated public works project. In 2003 Waterfield opened a second office in Manchester, New Hampshire. Noteworthy of our New Hampshire projects was the successful completion of over $30 million worth of new construction for Concord Hospital. Late in 2004, Waterfield opened a third office in Tampa, Florida, serving both coasts and anchoring our southeastern U.S. division. Waterfield would open 2 new offices in Tennessee in early 2007.