Residential Civil Engineers
Serving public and private clients in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.
Bono Consulting has an extensive track record of helping families of all sizes and walks of life bring their vision for a home to actuality. Over the past two decades and counting, our firm has prepared site plans for thousands of single-family homes. Our clients range from homeowners building a new home for their family, adding additions and garages; first-time developers building modest spec homes or established builders building high-end homes; to jaw-dropping estates and mansions along the lake. The size of the home doesn’t matter to us, though. Our engineers ensure our clients get exactly what they need.
We work closely with our clients to navigate their community’s requirements. We are familiar with the requirements for all the major counties and municipalities in the Chicagoland area and have worked extensively in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane, Will, and McHenry counties in Illinois; Walworth County in Wisconsin; Berrien County in Michigan and LaPorte County Indiana. Each community or neighborhood has its own specific requirements, and we help our clients through the process. Some homesites will require full engineering site plans, while some will not. Others may have strict stormwater detention and water quality policies. It’s up to our team to handle this without leading to extra headaches for our clients. Building a home can be stressful enough, but you can count on the engineers at Bono Consulting to make the process as smooth as possible.
Featured Projects
Vilas County and Oneida County Wisconsin Lake Homes
Bono Consulting has prepared the site engineering plans for numerous lake homes in Northern Wisconsin. The engineering design focuses on water quality of the storm water discharge, erosion control, and determining elevations for the home entryways on lots that generally drop off to the water. Boulder Junction, WI Due to size of new house proposed on the bluff of the Manitowish River, a stormwater mitigation plan was required by Vilas County. We proposed a plan to collect runoff from the new imperious area including runoff from the roof area. A storm sewer system was designed to route runoff to a new rain garden promoting infiltration into the ground instead of allowing runoff to flow overland down the bluff. The rain garden was sized per Vilas County requirements and designed with native plantings to promote infiltration and look aesthetically pleasing. Minocqua, WI The project design was for a new, large house just off the top of…
Single Family Residences – Winnetka, IL
Bono Consulting has prepared civil plans for numerous new homes and additions in Winnetka. Homes can be constructed in the floodplain as long as there is no basement and the lowest entry into the home, along with the mechanical equipment, is 2’ above the base flood elevation. Typically the house is elevated on a crawl space with flow-through vents. The flood waters come in and drain automatically after the flood waters subside. Compensatory storage is required to offset the fill for the walls, columns, stairs, and driveway. New homes also require an elevation certificate. We can help you with the design to determine whether you want the compensatory storage underground in a vault or a surface pond. After the work is complete, you will need a final as-built survey to certify that the compensatory storage provided is adequate for the fill placed to build the house.
New Residence – Northfield, IL
Bono Consulting was hired to provide a topographic survey, tree identification by an arborist, and site engineering for this sprawling new house in Northfield, IL. The project’s biggest challenge was that the street had no existing storm sewers, while the Village required stormwater detention for the proposed house. We had to design a system that stored the stormwater on the surface and discharged it to grade at the approved release rate. The soundest and most cost-effective solution was creating a pond filled with native plantings with a small berm on the low end to contain the stormwater. A restrictor structure was installed to an existing ditch along the roadway, lower than the preconstruction discharge to release the stormwater. Construction was completed successfully and on time for the family to move into their new home. Civil Engineering Illinois | Civil Engineering Residential