Our Collaboration is Your Success
Engineering services in Kansas City
At Hoss & Brown, our mission is to provide engineering solutions through team collaboration for the betterment of the owner and community.
We offer engineering services based in Kansas City, but serving clients nationally and internationally – while also providing a fulfilling professional and personal lifestyle for everyone on our team.
Awards and Recognition
2024
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Community Impact – Swope Health Services - PACE KC, Kansas City, MO
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award - Lofts at 832, Atchison, KS
2023
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award - Tribune-Monitor Building, Fort Scott, KS
2022
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Mixed Use – The Monarch KC, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Office – Rau Construction Home Office, Kansas City, MO
Missouri Preservation Alliance Award – The Monarch KC, Kansas City, MO
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award - Leavenworth Local Hotel, Leavenworth, KS
2021
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award – 900 Mississippi Street, The Big Mill, Lawrence, KS
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award – Common Ground Coffee Company / Kenny Felt Photography, Fort Scott, KS
AIA Kansas City Design Excellence Award – West Bottom Flats, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Mixed Use – Hotel Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Travel + Leisure Magazine "It List" – Hotel Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
2020
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Mixed-Use – The ACME Building, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal – Best Places to Work
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award – Washington Historic Residences, Independence, KS
2019
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award – Broadway Lofts, Leavenworth, KS
Kansas City Business Journal – Best Places to Work
2018
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Adaptive Reuse – Hotel Indigo, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Mixed Use – Commerce Tower on Main, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal – Best Places to Work
2017
Multifamily Executive Awards – Project of the Year: Adaptive Reuse – Grand Award – Roaster’s Block, Kansas City, MO
Aquatics International Dream Design Award – Long Branch Lagoon Water Park, Dodge City, KS
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award – Adaptive Reuse – Power & Light Apartments, Kansas City, MO
2016
Historic KC Preservation Awards – Adaptive Reuse – Honors Award – Roaster’s Block, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award (Office Space) – Globe Building, Kansas City, MO
2015
Kansas Preservation Alliance Award – St. Thomas Apartments, Colby, KS
2014
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award (Community Impact) – Little Sisters of the Community of the Lamb, Kansas City, KS
Kansas City Business Journal - Best Places to Work
2013
DBIA Design-Build Award – Fort Carson EN Battalion Headquarters, Fort Carson, CO
Outstanding Performance – Fort Carson EN Battalion Headquarters
Kansas City, MO Economic Development Cornerstone Award – Townley Lofts, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award (Adaptive Reuse) – Lyric Opera Richard J. Stern Center, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award (Multi-Family Housing) – Oakland Heights, Kansas City, MO
2012
National Design-Build Award – Siemens US Nacelle Facility, Hutchinson, KS
Kansas Preservation Alliance – Preservation Stewardship Award for Excellence for Rehabilitation –Building 216, Ft. Riley, KS
Associated General Contractors – Building Excellence Project of the Year – Grand Boulevard Lofts, Kansas City, MO
Associated General Contractors – Building Excellence Project of the Year Finalist – Lakeview Village Community Center, Lenexa, KS
2011
KC Home Design – Silver Design Excellence Award – Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors’ Park, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Multifamily Housing Award – Grand Boulevard Lofts, Kansas City, MO.
Historic Kansas City Foundation Annual Preservation Award (AIA) – Best Application of the Secretary of the Interiors Standards
Honorable Mention – Grand Boulevard Lofts, Kansas City, MO
2010
Associated General Contractors – Building Excellence Project of the Year – Valentine Apartments, Kansas City, MO
Missouri Preservation – Preserve Missouri Award – Schultz Senior Apartments, Cape Girardeau, MO
Old Town Cape Preservation Heritage Award – Schultz Senior Apartments, Cape Girardeau, MO
2009
Missouri Preservation – Preserve Missouri Award – Valentine Apartments, Kansas City, MO
American Subcontractors Association of Kansas City – Engineering Firm of the Year Finalist
2008
Missouri Preservation – Preserve Missouri Award – Oaks Hotel, Excelsior Springs, MO
National Association of Home Builders First Place Award in Renovated Senior Housing – Oaks Hotel, Excelsior Springs, MO
Principal Involvement
Principal involvement begins at the preliminary stage of each project and continues through final completion and system commissioning.
From early marketing stages to post-occupancy follow-ups, you can be assured that an actual owner of our firm is involved each step of the way.
Our principals select your system to yield a comfortable environment that fits within your project’s budget. They review staff engineer design calculations and documents at regular intervals to ensure the best possible quality control.
And during project construction, they’re actively involved with construction administration and system start-up, ensuring installation and operation within the designed guidelines.
Sustainable Design
We consistently provide long-term solutions that are environmentally and economically responsible.
Throughout its history, Hoss & Brown has always practiced sustainable design. Providing high quality, efficient systems design based on life-cycle cost analyses is a basic necessity in our industry.
With Energy Star, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and other energy saving standards, we can better quantify whole-building solutions. Whether a building is to be designed to certification standards or not, there are many principles from these certifications that we regularly employ in our designs.
Some of these items include: energy efficient heating and cooling systems, low flow plumbing fixtures, high efficiency lighting fixtures controlled by occupancy sensors, safe refrigerants, recycled materials, carbon dioxide measurement, and enhanced ventilation effectiveness.
Quality Control
At Hoss & Brown, we believe quality control is essential to lowering your building costs.
To achieve this, we exchange plans with architects, structural, and civil engineers. This decreases guess work during the bidding process and ensures our clients receive a well-rounded set of plans. It also allows us to review the designs of other trades to determine and head off potential field conflicts.
The thorough quality control process we exercise over our engineering services in Kansas City helps us eliminate unwanted change orders and provide well-coordinated mechanical and electrical plans.
Engineered Value
To us, “engineered value” ensures our clients’ projects meet their intended use and budget and are sustainable for them in the long run.
There are a great deal of factors that dictate the direction of a project. By keeping track of previous projects and their associated costs, our engineers can easily determine what type of system will yield a high quality, comfortable environment while maintaining an affordable project scope.
Other major concerns in determining a system type are cost of operation and annual maintenance. After all, merely keeping a job within the project budget is futile if the owner cannot afford to maintain and operate the facility long-term due to inefficient or low-quality equipment.
Multiple Disciplines
At Hoss & Brown Engineers, all of our engineers are cross-trained in each of the disciplines that we work in: mechanical, plumbing and electrical. This helps our work to be better coordinated, and allows our clients to have a single point of contact on every project that can answer all their questions.
Wide Scope of Services
We offer engineering services in Kansas City and across the country. In fact, we’re licensed in 46 states and have worked throughout the world. With over 60 years in business, our firm has streamlined our process to provide clients with the very best solutions for their project.
Customer Satisfaction
Over 90% of the firm’s annual projects are for repeat clients. We feel this speaks to the quality of design, construction, administration, and engineering services provided by Hoss and Brown Engineers.
1951
In 1951, Don Hoss founded the firm of D.C. Hoss and Associates, Consulting Engineers. Ken Brown joined the company in the summer of 1959 and was a partner six years later. The name of the firm was then changed to D.C. Hoss and K.L. Brown Consulting Engineers.
1990
The firm is incorporated under the leadership of Ken Brown and Pete Laughlin and the name is changed to Hoss & Brown Engineers, Inc.
1998
In 1998, Hoss & Brown Engineers expanded into the Kansas City market by opening a satellite office in Lenexa. Shortly after, Kurt Ewert joined Hoss & Brown as a partner to help grow the Kansas City office.
2003
In 2003, the main office in Topeka was relocated to Lawrence, Kansas. This allowed us to help better serve our clients and to facilitate our continued growth in our engineering services in Kansas City.
2020
Having outgrown their offices, the Lenexa and Lawrence offices merged into a new headquarters building located in Shawnee, KS. Hoss & Brown is now operating with Neil Bartley as President and Casey Steiner and Matt Murrell as Vice Presidents.
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