What CEC does

CEC is a privately held, multi-discipline engineering firm founded in 1921 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with seven offices across Oklahoma and Texas (Oklahoma City Memorial, Oklahoma City Meridian, Tulsa Main, Tulsa Garnett, Norman, Duncan, and Allen, Texas) and two in-house materials testing laboratories. The firm delivers engineering services across five integrated practice areas — Transportation (roadway, bridge, traffic), Facilities (land/site development, structural, MEP), Power Delivery (distribution, substation, transmission, broadband), Geospatial (land survey, remote sensing with mobile/terrestrial/aerial LiDAR and UAS, subsurface utility engineering, 3D visualization), and Construction Services (CE&I, materials testing) — under a unified service platform positioned to take projects from conception through construction.

The underlying technology stack combines conventional civil/structural/MEP engineering workflows with a modern geospatial platform, including FAA-certified UAS operations, mobile LiDAR with 360-degree imaging, SUE (RF locating, GPR, vacuum excavation), and a proprietary browser-based geospatial data portal called CEC HALO that allows clients to consume and integrate survey data without dedicated software. The firm holds ISNetworld certification with Ravs Plus Implementation Assessment safety recognition.

CEC generates revenue through project-based professional services contracts with public entities (notably Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, and multiple municipalities) and private developers across healthcare, education, electric utility, and commercial/residential real estate. Pricing is quote-driven per project scope; no public pricing or ARR is disclosed. GTM is relationship-based enterprise field sales, with work secured through RFP responses and repeat engagements, anchored by a 100+ year regional brand and a workforce that has grown from 18 team members in 2000 to over 230.

Name

CEC

Legal name

CEC

Website

https://connectcec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1921

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

CEC is a privately held, multi-discipline engineering firm founded in 1921 in Oklahoma City, delivering transportation, facilities, power delivery, geospatial, and construction engineering services to public agencies and private developers across Oklahoma and Texas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oklahoma City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering Services: Professional engineering services billed on a project basis for public entities and private developers. Services span from conception through design to construction across transportation, power delivery, facilities, and geospatial disciplines. Revenue is generated through consulting fees, project contracts with government agencies, and construction management services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CEC is a multi-discipline engineering firm that delivers infrastructure engineering services from project conception through design to construction across transportation, power delivery, facilities, and geospatial disciplines. The firm serves public entities (state DOTs, turnpike authorities, municipalities, counties) and private developers with civil, structural, mechanical/electrical/plumbing, transportation, traffic, water/wastewater, power distribution/substation/transmission, broadband, land surveying, remote sensing (LiDAR/UAS), subsurface utility engineering, construction engineering and inspection, and materials testing services. The company operates five offices in Oklahoma and Texas and two in-house materials testing laboratories.

Product overview

CEC is a multi-service engineering firm offering an integrated portfolio of infrastructure engineering services. The firm operates as a unified platform of interconnected service lines spanning the full project lifecycle from conception through construction. Core services include Transportation Design (Roadway Engineering, Bridge Engineering & Inspection, Traffic Engineering), Facilities Engineering (Structural Engineering, MEP Design, Land & Site Development), Power Delivery (Power Distribution Design, Power Substation Design, Power Transmission Design), Geospatial Services (Land Survey, Remote Sensing with LiDAR and UAS, Subsurface Utility Engineering), and Construction Services (Construction Engineering & Inspection, Materials Testing). The firm also offers specialized services including Water/Wastewater Collection, Broadband Engineering, and 3D Visualization. Supporting these core offerings are brand platforms including the 'Get Stuff Built Right' podcast. CEC serves both public entities and private developers, with specialized expertise in transportation, power delivery, and civil infrastructure across Oklahoma and Texas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Construction Engineering & Inspection Quality control and assurance construction management services for both owners and contractors, including project scheduling, design support, conflict resolution, on-site observation/inspection, daily work reporting, verification surveys, constructability reviews, and quality control/quality assurance testing for public and private infrastructure projects.
• Materials Testing Services Laboratory and field quality control operations for construction, including soils, concrete, asphalt, aggregates, and masonry testing, plus special inspections for reinforcing steel, fireproofing, paint thickness, adhesion testing, and structural steel, delivered from in-house CEC laboratories.
• Land & Site Development Civil site design services including feasibility studies, master planning, land development/site design, flood studies, traffic impact studies, grading and drainage, stormwater design, detention/retention design, utility relocations and design, and residential/commercial development for private developers.
• Structural Engineering Structural design and analysis for new and renovated structures including low-rise structures, reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, precast concrete, load-bearing masonry, light gauge steel, timber framing, FEMA Community Safe Room Design, and pre-engineered metal building foundations.
• MEP Design Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering including HVAC systems, plumbing systems, electrical power systems, interior and exterior lighting, lightning protection, sustainable and energy-efficient systems, geothermal heating and cooling, building automation systems, and LEED certifications.
• Bridge Engineering & Inspection Bridge design for interchange flyovers to rural stream crossings, designing steel, prestressed concrete, and post-tensioned concrete bridges, retaining walls, sound walls, and drainage culverts, plus bridge inspection services per National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS).
• Roadway Engineering Transportation design including highways (urban, rural, interchanges, alignment studies), city streets (reconstructions, widenings, streetscapes, intersections, pavement rehabilitation), and county roads (bridge replacement, roadway reconstruction).
• Traffic Engineering Traffic engineering services including traffic impact studies for new developments, traffic and pedestrian signals, signing and striping, and construction zone traffic control plans for municipalities and developers.
• Water Distribution & Wastewater Collection Water and wastewater infrastructure engineering including water systems network modeling, pipeline systems design, wastewater systems modeling, gravity pipeline systems, and wastewater systems rehabilitation for municipalities.
• Power Distribution Design Power distribution services including new overhead and underground facilities, voltage conversions, reconstruction of electrical facilities, smart grid implementation, PLS-CADD analysis, underground network design, reliability analysis, arc flash studies, and storm assessment.
• Power Substation Design Substation engineering from conception to in-service including relay settings, protection and control, grading plans, physical design, bus configuration, structural design, protective relaying, SCADA design, and UAS inspection/construction photos.
• Power Transmission Design Transmission infrastructure engineering including lattice towers, new lines using PLS-CADD, relocations, fiber optic additions, geotechnical foundations, structural pole design using PLS-Pole, extra high voltage (EHV), tower analysis using PLS-Tower, and line upgrading.
• Broadband Engineering Broadband and telecommunication engineering including joint-use applications, field data collection, pole loading analysis, make-ready design, construction management services, and post-construction inspections for broadband providers and government agencies.
• Land Survey Comprehensive surveying and mapping services using RTK GNSS systems, robotic total stations, conventional total stations, and LiDAR integration, including boundary surveys, ALTA/NSPS surveys, right-of-way surveys, construction staking, and topographic surveys.
• Remote Sensing Geospatial data acquisition using mobile, terrestrial, and aerial LiDAR services, UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) for data acquisition, and photogrammetry, with capabilities including topographic survey, as-built documentation, BIM and 3D modeling, and infrastructure inspection.
• Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Investigation and identification of risks associated with buried utilities using Quality Level A and B services, RF locating and mapping, GPR locating and mapping, vacuum excavation, and utility coordination for planning, design, and construction phases.
• 3D Visualization Visualization services creating fully rendered 3D models from design documents and survey data, including animated traffic, custom buildings, flythrough videos, and AR and VR functionality to facilitate communication between designers and the public.

Quantifiable outcome

• Named to Zweig Group Hot Firm List recognizing 100 fastest-growing AEC firms in US and Canada
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• White Engineering AssociatescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022White Engineering Associates, a specialized structural engineering firm in Oklahoma, merged with CEC on January 1, 2022. The merger added 12 seasoned engineers, technicians, and support staff to CEC's Transportation Practice. White Engineering brought extensive structural engineering expertise complementing CEC's existing capabilities in transportation design, mechanical, electrical, civil engineering, construction engineering and inspection, materials testing, surveying and mapping, and power delivery.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Garver: Garver is a multi-discipline engineering, planning, and environmental services firm headquartered in North Little Rock with deep operations across Oklahoma, Texas, and the South Central US. Closely comparable to CEC in service breadth (transportation, water, facilities, aviation, power) and regional public-sector client focus.
• Mead & Hunt: Mead & Hunt is an employee-owned engineering and architecture firm of similar size to CEC, with comparable multi-discipline services spanning transportation, water, power, and facilities. Both firms share a regional-services model anchored in state DOT and municipal clients.
• Huitt-Zollars: Huitt-Zollars is a Texas-based full-service engineering and architecture firm serving public and private clients across the Southwest US. Directly comparable to CEC in offering multi-discipline civil, structural, MEP, and transportation services with strong municipal and state DOT relationships.
• Freese and Nichols: Freese and Nichols is a Texas-based engineering, planning, and environmental services firm with strong water/wastewater, transportation, and infrastructure practices. Comparable to CEC in regional multi-discipline scope and heavy public-sector client base across the South Central US.

Broad incumbents

• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a global consulting and engineering firm specializing in water, environment, and infrastructure. Comparable to CEC's water/wastewater and site development work and competes for the same federal, state, and municipal clients.
• Burns & McDonnell: Burns & McDonnell is a national full-service engineering, architecture, construction, and environmental firm with a major power delivery and transmission practice that overlaps CEC's power distribution/substation work. Substantially larger than CEC and competes for the same large public-sector and utility RFPs.
• HDR Inc. HDR is a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm with deep transportation, water, power, and resources practices. Competes with CEC for major state DOT and municipal contracts across the South Central US with much broader geographic and disciplinary reach.
• Kimley-Horn: Kimley-Horn is one of the largest US planning and design engineering firms with broad transportation, land development, water, and environmental practices. Direct overlap with CEC on roadway, traffic, and land/site development services, particularly as Kimley-Horn expands in Oklahoma and Texas.
• WSP USA: WSP is one of the largest global engineering consultancies with extensive transportation, property, and environmental practices in the US. Overlaps with CEC on roadway, bridge, traffic, and facilities work and competes for the largest public-sector mega-contracts.
• Stantec: Stantec is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm with significant presence in water, infrastructure, and power. Competes with CEC on transportation, water/wastewater, and environmental work across the South Central US with a much larger global platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/connect_cec
• Facebookfacebook.com/connectceccom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/connectcec
• Instagraminstagram.com/connect_cec

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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