Ahmed N. Ahsan, P.E.

At first glance, the site southwest of Taylorsville Road and Pebblestone Road in Dale looks like open Central Texas grassland. The real design problem sits a few feet below that grass. This part of Caldwell County is underlain by the Wilcox Group- Paleocene to Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain deposits mapped on the Geologic Atlas of Texas. Those beds were laid down in fluvial-deltaic to marginal marine settings. Near the surface they are typically fine-grained and clay-rich, with sandy lenses and...

The Texas Hill Country looks deceptively stable—rolling oak woodland, limestone outcrops, and clear skies. Beneath the surface, however, the Glen Rose Formation creates some of the more nuanced geotechnical conditions in Central Texas. Recent fieldwork by A.C.E. in the Spicewood area (and similar Hill Country sites) brought these challenges into sharp focus. The photos from those days tell part of the story. What Is the Glen Rose Formation? The Glen Rose (Lower Cretaceous) consists of...

Today, August 5, 2026, marks the eleventh annual Professional Engineers Day - a day set aside to recognize the licensed Professional Engineers whose work quietly and reliably shapes the safety, resilience, and quality of the built environment. At A.C.E., we join engineers across Texas and the nation in celebrating this important observance. As a firm led by a licensed Professional Engineer and dedicated exclusively to civil engineering, we understand firsthand the weight of the PE license....