Rick Engineering Company's Surveying & Mapping services have been providing support for our many disciplines for over 50 years. These divisions are involved in the civil engineering process from beginning to end. There are upwards of 100 people employed company-wide in these divisions with each office's Surveying and Mapping Department being managed by a Licensed Land Surveyor.

The SURVEYING DEPARTMENTS in each office are comprised of multiple crews performing a wide variety of tasks. The field crews are comprised of an experienced Party Chief with one or two additional crewmembers trained to perform a multitude of tasks from initial boundary location, aerial control and accuracy assessment surveys, topographic surveys, to final site construction staking tasks. The field crews employ state of the art survey equipment, including GPS Real Time Kinematic Systems, as well as conventional total station instruments with electronic data storage and handheld data collection devices. All equipment is fully compatible with our integrated office CADD and coordinate geometry hardware and software.

The MAPPING DEPARTMENTS are comprised of professionals providing the support for a combined total of 30 field crews, as well as providing the research to determine boundaries, prepare Land Development Maps, American Land Title Association (ALTA) Surveys, Records of Survey, right-of-way surveys, legal descriptions and plats, encumbrance maps, final construction surveying support, and interface with a multitude of agencies to assure efficiency in the land development process.

This is a dependable essential craft that rounds out Rick's broad array of development services - all conveniently under one roof.

The PHOTOGRAMMETRY DEPARTMENTS are crucial to the civil engineering process. Providing topographic mapping and associated digital terrain modeling through the photogrammetric process is an efficient process that allows projects to be ready for design in a timely fashion. The products provided by this division include digital orthophotography and photo mosaics of large geographic areas. The Photogrammetry Division interfaces extensively with the survey department during many phases of a project. The photogrammetrist plans the locations of the aerial crosses that are placed on the ground prior to the flight, interfaces with the surveyors to provide horizontal and vertical datums, and establishes criteria for the quality control surveys that determine and ensure the accuracy of the final topographic map. The Photogrammetry Division utilizes a number of highly qualified companies located throughout the West to perform aerial flights and provide aerial photography in the regions of all of our offices. Utilizing one central location ensures the maintenance of precise standards of topographic mapping throughout all of our offices.

Rick Engineering Company's Surveying, Mapping, and Photogrammetry Divisions are an integral part of the overall land development process. More than 15 percent of the staff members in these departments are professionally licensed. These professionals bring more than 200 years of professional experience and expertise to the land development process.

We understand complexity and invest in competence. After 50 years, we also know that the success of the firm rests clearly on the management, competence, and expertise of our professional staff. That's why Rick Engineering Company provides in-house the broad range of required skills and services necessary for today's complex engineering projects.

Surveying services include: