Company Profile
Aguirre & Fields
Company Overview
Aguirre & Fields exists to provide our communities with leaders who have grit and character, leveraging the innovations of today to build a sustainable tomorrow. We aspire to be entrusted by our communities to provide infrastructure solutions, protect quality of life and enable prosperity and growth.
Company History
The story of Aguirre & Fields began in 1999 when a technically proficient design visionary named Oscar Aguirre formed Aguirre Engineering Consultants, LP and a management-minded, skilled engineer named Richard Fields formed Fields Engineering Consultants, Inc. Oscar was an innovative, detail-oriented structural engineer who was always searching for ways to improve efficiency and reduce errors in engineering. He started out by developing calculator programs to speed up engineering calculations and then moved to developing software that aided in the automation of a variety of engineering tasks. With little capital and a lot of faith, Oscar started his own company. He worked hard, solved difficult structural engineering issues, and gained a solid reputation in the county and state which translated into an influx of steady clients for his fledgling company. Richard was a transportation engineer with experience in roadway and bridge design. His management skills and his focus on clients helped steadily grow Fields Engineering. By 2001, his company had won a TxDOT contract and Fields Engineering had three employees: Richard Fields, Mark Gribble, and Aaron DeBord.
After winning the TxDOT contract, Richard realized his company needed help on a bridge project. He reached out to Oscar after hearing that they had both worked on the Westpark and Sam Houston Tollway Interchange project. Oscar met with Richard and presented software he had developed that translated Geopak Bridge output to RDS output. It was at this time that Oscar and Richard realized that they had a very similar mindset, as Richard had also developed tools to improve design processes.
After the meeting, Richard asked Oscar for help on a railroad bridge design project for State Highway 21 (SH-21). The project not only required Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) approval but also had a very important constraint; the existing bridge had to be removed and replaced in a 12-hour window. A few months later Oscar, Richard, Mark, and Aaron completed the design documents for a “roll-in” bridge and obtained approval from UPRR.