The Design Branch of the St. Louis District has much Experience and Expertise in the following categories: Navigation including Locks and Dams; Hydropower including Dam Design and Re-regulation Dam Design; Environmental Restoration including Habitat Restoration; Flood Control including Levees, Floodwalls, Drainage Channels, Lakes, and Reservoirs; Specialized Expertise including Design of Lock and Dam PLC Control Systems, Design and Analysis of Steel Structures to Resist Fracture and Fatigue, and Assistance in the Field to Tension Diagonals on Miter Gate Structures; Recreation including Visitor Centers and Recreational Facilities Design such as Boat Ramps, Campgrounds, and Wastewater Treatment Systems; and Inspection of Facilities including Project Bridge Inspections, Pump Station Inspections, Periodic Inspections of Locks and Dams, and using Ropes and Rappelling for Inspection of Large Metal Structures.

Projects that have been designed by the Design Branch of the St. Louis District include those in the following categories: Navigational Structures such as Lock and Dam No. 24, Lock and Dam No. 25, Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Locks No. 27, Kaskaskia Lock and Dam, Bayou Sorrell Lock in the state of Louisiana, and Lock and Dam No. 2 on the Red River in Louisiana; Flood Control Structures such as Carlyle Lake, Rend Lake, Lake Shelbyville, Wappapello Lake, Cape Girardeau-Jackson Missouri Local Flood Protection, Ste. Genevieve Missouri Local Flood Protection, St. Peters Missouri Local Flood Protection, Valley Park Missouri Local Flood Protection, and St. Louis Missouri Flood Protection; Hydropower Structures at Clarence Cannon Dam and Mark Twain Lake; Environmental Restoration Structures such as Carlyle Lake Wildlife Management Area, Rend Lake Atchison Creek Wildlife Area, Rend Lake Sub-impoundment Dams, Riverlands Environmental Demonstration Area, Rend City Wetlands, and the Upper Mississippi River Environmental Management Program (EMP); and Recreational Structures such as Carlyle Lake, Rend Lake, Lake Shelbyville, Wappapello Lake, Mark Twain Lake, and the National Great Rivers Museum.