From a practical point of view, you need to be locally present to understand local circumstances, county commissions, city commissions, things like that. |
Our clients are looking at the gamut of planning issues, engineering issues, surveying, environmental planning and landscape architecture. We bill ourselves as a full-service consulting company. |
Our goal is not to be a really large company. We have expanded drastically the past couple of years, but it's not out of a desire to be really large but to broaden our market. |
Right now, our customers are about 50 percent public sector and 50 percent private sector. |
We get inquiries for specific disciplines. We're frequently brought in by law firms, and for them we look at specific questions for land-use change, zoning issues and environmental issues. Generally, though, we try to bring in all the disciplines and try to evaluate a project from all perspectives. |
We've got a major investment in our electronics. With all the changes there, the increasing sophistication of the electronics, the hardware and software, it's tough to keep up. We need to stay state-of-the-art. |