New Hampshire Municipalities

VHB’s NH office is proud to provide continuous service to our local municipalities, building on more than 40 years of experience delivering across a variety of services. Our Bedford office includes a multi-disciplinary, municipal-focused team that specializes in understanding and serving the needs of New Hampshire’s municipalities.

VHB’s Bedford office is home to more than 90 team members, including 47 certified New Hampshire professional engineers, nine Local Public Agency (LPA) certified staff, and three certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineers (PTOE). Creating a positive and lasting impact on New Hampshire's cities and towns is our priority. We collaborate closely with municipalities to strengthen the state's thriving economy, enhance local communities, and safeguard valuable environmental resources.

Through on-call contracts, VHB is actively partnering with local New Hampshire regional planning commissions (RPCs) including the Southern New Hampshire PC, Rockingham Planning Commission and Nashua RPC, and municipalities including the Towns of Exeter, Salem, Goffstown, Durham, Amherst, and Bedford and the Cities of Concord, Manchester, and Lebanon. In addition to these on-calls contracts, we work across many other communities on a variety of other standalone projects, including the Madbury Road Complete Streets Project in Durham and the South Manchester Rail Trail in Manchester.  

We are proud to play a role in enhancing New Hampshire’s transportation and safety systems, local economies, and environmental resources. Together, our multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists have helped replace or rehabilitate deficient bridges and structures, construct safer, more accessible streets, restore and protect our natural resources, and revitalize downtown areas while embracing the aging infrastructure across the state.

A Comprehensive Suite of Services

Roadway Design

We bring a first-hand understanding of the challenges facing our New Hampshire clients. With an intentional focus on developing roadway solutions to improve mobility and connection, our team helps revitalize downtown areas, construct safer streets, and spur economic development.

Traffic/Safety Studies 

With a data-driven approach, we partner with state and local agencies across New Hampshire to advance safety management practices, conduct road safety audits, and establish guides for safer transportation planning and design.

Environmental Studies

We prioritize protecting New Hampshire’s valuable natural resources, promoting environmental stewardship in all that we do. Offering comprehensive experience in wetlands, watershed management, air and noise, and more, our team understands how to move projects through complex environmental regulatory processes. 

Structures

From complex bridge design to rehabilitation and inspection, our Structures Team provides a breadth of structural engineering services to improve mobility for New Hampshire’s traveling public.

Survey

VHB uses an innovative GIS and data management platform for efficient survey data collection and integration. Leveraging our experience and dedication to providing timely geospatial data, we proactively address project challenges