Kevin Foxcroft

Engineering experience

Kevin Foxcroft is a senior engineering technician at NCE in Reno, Nevada, specialising in pavement condition assessment and field data collection for public agencies across Nevada and the western United States. He joined NCE in 2016 and has about ten years in the field.

Current role

Senior Engineering Technician

NCE — Nichols Consulting Engineers · Reno, Nevada · 2016 to present

NCE is an engineering, planning and environmental services firm headquartered in Reno and operating since 1990, working predominantly for public-sector clients — cities, counties, transportation departments and airport authorities — across Nevada and California.

Kevin's work covers data collection and entry, construction inspection and data analysis, with a concentration in pavement condition assessment: manual and semi-automated distress surveys, pavement coring, ground-penetrating radar, falling weight deflectometer testing and soil sampling, feeding the pavement management systems that agencies use to decide what gets rehabilitated and when.

Kevin Foxcroft on site in a hard hat and high-visibility vest, May 2026.
On site, May 2026.
  • Pavement condition surveys
  • Pavement coring
  • Ground-penetrating radar
  • Falling weight deflectometer
  • Soil sampling
  • PAVER™
  • StreetSaver®
  • Construction inspection
  • Data analysis

Survey and Construction Departments

Nevada Department of Transportation · Nevada · before 2016

Before joining NCE, Kevin worked with NDOT's survey and construction departments on work ranging from field reconnaissance and topographic surveys to daily construction inspection reports verifying contractor work and progression.

  • Topographic survey
  • Field reconnaissance
  • Construction inspection

Disciplines

Pavement condition assessment

Manual and semi-automated distress surveys carried out to standard — ASTM D5340 for airside pavements, ASTM D6433 for roads and landside. A distress survey is a structured, repeatable judgement about what a pavement is doing and why, recorded so that the same section can be compared honestly against itself a year later.

Coring, GPR and deflection testing

Pavement thickness cores, ground-penetrating radar and falling weight deflectometer testing establish what is actually under the surface and how the structure responds to load. Surface condition alone cannot distinguish a pavement that needs a thin overlay from one that needs reconstruction; this is the work that tells them apart.

Pavement management systems

Field data only matters once it is in the system an agency actually plans from — PAVER™ for airfields, StreetSaver® for local road networks. That means quality assurance on the data, establishing and maintaining sample units, and catching maintenance work that was done but never recorded.

Construction inspection and survey support

Daily inspection reporting to verify contractor work and progression, plus topographic survey and field reconnaissance — the groundwork Kevin started in at NDOT and still draws on.

Education

2020
B.S., Business Management — Western Governors University
2013
A.A.S., Construction Technologies, emphasis in Renewable Energy — Truckee Meadows Community College

Certifications

  • OSHA 10-Hour Construction
  • HAZWOPER 40-Hour
  • FHWA Manual Distress Surveys
  • MTC StreetSaver® Rater Certification Program

External profiles

Projects he has worked on are described under projects.