Jack Furlong, P.E., D. WRE

M.S., The University of Texas at Arlington, 1977
B.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 1974

Jack Furlong has 41 years of experience in consulting engineering and construction management. He has completed a wide range of water resource projects, including dams and reservoirs, pump stations, detention ponds, flood insurance studies, channel improvements, subdivision plans, flood plain studies, master drainage plans, levees and water and wastewater plans. Furlong has also designed and inspected bridges, buildings, roadways and landfills, served as a resident engineer for a major tollway extension and provided expert testimony on past drainage and landfill permit litigation.

Furlong completed the civil site plans for more than 120 commercial and industrial development sites, including shopping centers, apartment complexes, churches, buildings, and new subdivisions. He also assisted surveyors, clients and architects in processing plats, site plans and building permits through the different regulatory entities at the city, county, state and federal levels, like FEMA and COE.

Furlong worked as an independent consultant for the Baltimore District, Fort Worth District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, assisting project teams in the Hydrology and Hydraulics Branch. He's also worked as an independent consultant for FEMA on Flood Disaster Assistance in North Dakota. After Hurricane Ike, Furlong assisted the Galveston County Engineer’s office on post-disaster property assessments. He's owned a consulting firm for 7 years in the Austin area and formed a joint venture firm with Tom Gebhard for five years.

Furlong has published over 40 papers and taught more than 10 seminars/webinars on topics like HEC-2, NPDES-stormwater permitting, landfill design, dam breach modeling and construction management issues.