What to send
Your current drawings or plans, the project address, and your deadline. PDFs are perfect — markups, redlines, and half-finished sets are welcome too.
Torch Engineering — PE-Stamped Structural · MEP · Civil
NO MOREWAITING.
Engineering without the wait.
Your schedule is moving. Your engineering should be too. Torch scopes it, prices it, and keeps the project moving — fast quotes, practical design, and one contact who owns your job. The new AI-forward engineering brand, veteran-owned and backed by the engineering resources of Apex Grid Engineering.
The wait is over. We came to work.
Backed by Apex Grid Engineering
49StatesStates in Apex’s coverage network
10+PEsPEs in Apex’s engineering bench
20+EngineersEngineers across Apex’s team
Same-DayQuotesQuotes on qualifying scopes
VeteranOwnedTorch Engineering’s identity
AZQueen CreekHeadquarters — Queen Creek, Arizona
Torch Engineering PLLC is the challenger brand of Apex Grid Engineering PLLC. The coverage, bench, and team figures above are Apex Grid Engineering’s. Project services and seals are subject to jurisdictional licensing and responsible-charge review by the licensed professional assigned to your project.
DRAWING-FIRST INTAKE
Skip the back-and-forth. Send the drawings.
No portal accounts, no ticket queues, no week of “intake review.” The fastest way to a priced engineering scope is to put the drawings in front of an engineer.
What happens next
A real engineer reviews the set, confirms the scope and the jurisdiction’s licensing path, and flags anything that would slow the permit — before you pay anything.
How it moves to a quote
Qualifying scopes move straight to a clear, priced proposal — same day. One contact owns your job from intake to delivery, and you always know who it is.
WHAT WE DO
Engineering that keeps you building.
Structural, MEP, and civil engineering, plus the review and sealing work that gets sets out of your office and into the permit queue. Every scope is written around your project — never a boilerplate package.
Structural Engineering
Framing that stalls at plan check costs you the schedule — and the revision cycle starts at your desk.
Deliverables: framing plans, foundation design, full calculations, and modification letters that answer the reviewer the first time.
Structural services
MEP Engineering
Three trades designed in isolation collide at review. Ours arrive as one coordinated set.
Deliverables: HVAC load calculations and layouts, power distribution, plumbing design, and coordinated permit sets across mechanical, electrical, and plumbing.
MEP services
Civil Engineering
Site problems surface late and bill early — drainage, utilities, and grading make or break the permit.
Deliverables: grading and drainage plans, utility coordination, stormwater management, and site plans built for the jurisdiction reviewing them.
Civil services
PE Review & Sealing
Drawings done but nobody to seal them? That gap is where projects sit.
Deliverables: independent PE review, corrections, and sealed permit sets through Apex Grid Engineering’s licensed bench — the responsible licensed professional verified for your jurisdiction before work starts.
Review & sealing
Modular & Prefab
Factory-built projects live or die on approvals and the unit-to-site handoff.
Deliverables: modular building engineering, foundation and utility interfaces, and support for state modular program approvals — coordinated with your factory’s production schedule.
Modular work
Commercial Tenant Improvements
Landlord deadlines do not move, and neither do lease commencement dates.
Deliverables: TI permit packages, MEP tie-ins to base-building systems, structural modifications, and fast revisions when the field finds something the drawings didn’t.
Tenant improvement workTHE NATIONAL BENCH
Built to move. Backed to deliver.
Torch brings the speed. Apex brings the stamp. Torch Engineering is the fast front end of Apex Grid Engineering — the established firm whose licensed Professional Engineers cover 49 states. When you send Torch a project, you get challenger pace with an institutional bench behind it.
Every project is matched to a licensed professional in the project’s jurisdiction. Qualification is verified before work starts, responsible charge is named on the job, and the seal on your drawings belongs to the professional who actually reviewed them. That is how the work stays fast and legal — in every state, on every set.
Intake is nationwide and it starts in one place: send the drawings, get the scope reviewed, get your number. No new engineer to find in every state, no hand-offs between firms.
THE PEOPLE
Real people. Direct contact.
No portals between you and the team. These are the people who answer, scope, and stand behind the work.
Jeremy “Chico” Mills
Founder & CEO
Serial entrepreneur · USAF veteran
Jeremy founded Apex Grid Engineering — the firm behind Torch — on mission-first discipline: accountability, clear communication, and delivering for clients the way you deliver for your unit — no excuses, no surprises. Jeremy Mills is the founder and owner of 10+ companies, led by Apex Grid Engineering.
Leslie Johnson
Chief People Officer
Leslie leads the people and culture behind the firm — 15+ years of HR leadership, including deep experience in the engineering industry.
Hishan Fernando
Engineering Officer
Shan leads Apex Grid’s engineering and drafting operations. Jeremy’s verdict: “The guy can literally design anything.” He heads design across structural, MEP, and civil scopes — the engineering engine behind the coverage model, with licensed Professional Engineers stamping and sealing every regulated deliverable.
Josh Gordon
Personal Assistant to the CEO
Josh Gordon is Personal Assistant to Jeremy Mills, Founder and CEO of Apex Grid Engineering. As Torch’s front door, Josh manages executive communications, coordinates bid and proposal submissions across Apex Grid’s 49-state practice, and keeps fast-moving operations on schedule. Known for responsiveness, discretion, and detail-driven execution.
Daniel Mercer
Chief Financial Officer
Daniel leads Apex Grid’s financial strategy — bonding and banking relationships, project costing and controls, and the capital planning behind the firm’s multi-state growth. He brings two decades of finance experience across construction and engineering.
Rachel Donnelly
Vice President of Operations
Rachel runs delivery operations across Apex Grid’s 49-state practice — resource planning, scheduling, and performance management across the project portfolio. Her career in AEC operations is built on one standard: every project staffed right, sequenced right, and delivered on time.
Priya Raman
Director of Quality & Compliance
Priya leads quality and compliance at Apex Grid — QA/QC programs, procurement and regulatory compliance across federal and state work, and the documentation and safety standards behind every deliverable. Her background is in engineering quality systems, and it shows in every set that leaves the firm.
How we move your project
01
Send your drawings
Plans, address, deadline. That is the whole intake form.
02
Engineering scope review
An engineer reviews the set and confirms scope, licensing path, and risks.
03
Receive a clear proposal
Priced scope in writing — qualifying scopes the same day.
04
Engineering execution
Design, calculations, and coordination by the assigned team.
05
Delivery and coordination
Sealed sets delivered, with plan-check support through approval.
BUILT AROUND YOUR PROJECT
Real-world engineering.
General contractors, architects, developers, specialty trades, property owners, and design-build teams — across the sectors where schedules are real and waiting is expensive.
Plus 20 more sectors — browse all industries →
THE NEXT MOVE IS YOURS
Less waiting. More building.
Send us the project, the location, and your deadline. Qualifying scopes get a same-day quote; design and stamping timelines follow the complexity of the work and licensed review.