St. Louis’ Castle Contracting expands design-build team

Joel Richardson

Castle Contracting, LLC in St. Louis has expanded its Design-Build team with the addition of Joel Richardson as civil designer.

In this position, Richardson will support senior design manager James Parks and design manager Amy Huller in delivering turnkey civil design-build services for site development work. This streamlined delivery method combines “civil design” and “civil construction” as a single, integrated client deliverable.

Prior to joining Castle, Richardson was manager of Survey, CAD, and Machine Control Operations at Millstone Weber in St. Charles, Missouri. After 15 years of laying out projects in the field, he adds a valuable perspective about functional design to the design-build process and brings a wealth of field expertise to the Castle team.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the UMSL/Washington University Joint Engineering Program.

Richardson and his family reside in the city of St. Louis.