GROUPE was tasked and providing land development engineering services for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial (TPSM) site. This project is within the Occoquan Regional Park located in southern Fairfax County, Virginia.  The National Memorial will be a garden-style memorial honoring the suffragists with a special focus on those imprisoned in Occoquan, Virginia.  The memorial’s focus is to honor the women involved in the suffragist movement and provide awareness and education on how their actions and commitment led to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

GROUPE provided land surveying services to deliver a detailed topographical survey for the location of the memorial.  GROUPE coordinated concept drawings prepared by R.E. Beach Architects with the topographical survey to develop a site plan for the memorial. As the site plan was being developed, GROUPE coordinated with County staff to ensure that the project would move through the review approval process in an expedited manner. Additionally, GROUPE developed a site plan in coordination with TPSM staff, the architect, and the Northern Virginia Regional Park. Park staff that met the established design guidelines for the memorial.  Final site engineering included detailed grading, wet utility design, stormwater management design, pedestrian walkways, and erosion and sediment controls. The final site plan was approved by Fairfax County.