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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering,consulting |
| Founded | 1931; 95 years ago (1931) inHouston, Texas, U.S. |
| Founder | Walter P. Moore, Sr. |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, United States |
Number of locations | 36 offices in 6 countries (2025) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Dilip Choudhuri(CEO) David Landis(Chairman) |
Number of employees | 1,000+ |
| Website | www |
Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. (d/b/aWalter P Moore) is an international company providingstructural engineering,diagnostics,civil engineering,traffic engineering, parking consulting,facade engineering,transportation engineering,intelligent transportation systems (ITS) engineering, andwater resources engineering services. Headquartered inHouston, Texas, the firm employs more than 1,000 professionals and operates 27 U.S. and nine international offices.
In 1931, just as America'sGreat Depression entered its worst years, Walter P. Moore, Sr. started his own company by selling aStutz Bearcat he had received in lieu of employment wages. The firm's earliest projects consisted of designing foundations for residential estates at $5 each, but they would later go on to engineer the world's first domed stadium (theAstrodome) and become pioneers in moveable structures, particularlyretractable roof sports stadia. Their design ofState Farm Stadium includes the first retractable playing field (also called a moving pitch) in North America.[1][2]
While the company originated as a family-owned structural engineering firm, they have since expanded their services to include comprehensive infrastructure engineering (civil, traffic, transportation, ITS, and water resources engineering) and transitioned leadership into an employee-owned company governed by a board of directors andChief Executive Officer (Dilip Choudhuri, 2015–present; Raymond Messer 1992–2014).[3]