What McLaury Engineering does

McLaury Engineering, Inc. is a privately held civil engineering and land surveying firm founded in the 1960s, headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and operating across the tri-state region of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. The firm serves both public-sector and private-sector clients, with municipal and government work as the primary segment and private land development as a secondary vertical. Its customer base includes city councils, county governments, state transportation agencies, residential and commercial developers, and industrial site owners. A single disclosed engagement, a $248,000 design and bidding services agreement with the Mitchell City Council for water main, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, and street reconstruction, illustrates the typical project scope and contract size.

The firm delivers an integrated service portfolio across nine practice areas: land surveying and mapping; civil engineering; municipal engineering; transportation services; laboratory testing; FEMA mapping and engineering; construction management; lighting design; and CAD drafting. Underlying technology is conventional but reasonably current for a regional practice — total stations and GPS for field survey, Bentley MicroStation CAD platform with 3D deliverables and transXML export for machine-guidance handoff to contractors, terrestrial lidar scanning, drone-based floodplain data capture, AGi-32 lighting analysis, and an in-house materials testing laboratory covering soils, aggregate, and concrete. The firm employs approximately 11-50 professionals (18 named across two states), including multiple Professional Engineers and Registered Land Surveyors licensed in South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.

McLaury generates revenue through professional service fees charged on a project basis, with engagements typically spanning the full lifecycle from preliminary engineering and funding support through design, bidding, construction administration, staking, inspection, and final certification. The go-to-market motion is sales-led and relationship-driven, relying on professional reputation, industry association memberships (ACEC, NSPE, ASCE and state-level counterparts), direct engagement with municipal procurement, and a QuestCDN-hosted bid portal to surface public project opportunities. There is no external ownership, no equity funding, and no disclosed financial performance; the firm appears to be bootstrapped and founder/management-controlled.

Name

McLaury Engineering

Legal name

McLaury Engineering, Inc.

Website

https://mclauryengineering.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

McLaury Engineering is a privately held civil engineering and land surveying firm founded in the 1960s, serving municipal, government, and private development clients across South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa with integrated services from preliminary design through construction administration.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Geotechnical & Subsurface Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAB)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Land surveying services
• Municipal engineering
• Transportation engineering
• Construction management

Headquarters

HQ city

Elk Point

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Civil Engineering Services: Professional civil engineering services including preliminary engineering, funding support, design, construction administration, construction staking and construction inspection on various projects. Revenue is generated through professional service fees for engineering design and project management.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

McLaury Engineering provides civil engineering, land surveying, municipal engineering, transportation engineering, construction management, and laboratory testing services to public agencies and private developers across the South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa tri-state region. The firm delivers design, surveying, FEMA floodplain mapping, lighting design, and CAD drafting for municipal infrastructure, roadways, and site development projects.

Product overview

McLaury Engineering is a civil engineering and land surveying firm providing integrated professional services from concept to final construction administration. The company offers nine distinct service areas: Land Surveying & Mapping (boundary, topographic, and construction surveys using GPS and total stations); Civil Engineering (subdivision, commercial, and industrial development); Municipal Engineering (street planning, water/sewer systems, drainage); Transportation Services (feasibility studies, roadway design, right-of-way planning); Laboratory Testing (soil, aggregate, and concrete testing); FEMA Mapping & Engineering Services (floodplain management and hydraulic modeling); Construction Management (inspection, observation, quality control); Lighting Design (roadway and site lighting using AGi-32 software); and CAD Drafting (using Bentley MicroStation for 3D deliverables). These services are delivered as an integrated offering supporting clients from preliminary engineering through final construction certification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Engineering Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Considerable savings on project oversight, materials testing and quality assurance through in-house testing capabilities

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• American Council of Engineering CompaniescoreOthersProfessional industry membership organization for engineering companies. Membership provides networking, advocacy, and professional development resources.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Banner Associates, Inc. Brookings, SD-based civil engineering, surveying, and planning firm serving municipal and private clients across the Upper Midwest. Closely comparable to McLaury in service mix (civil, municipal, transportation, surveying) and regional footprint.
• Bolton & Menk, Inc. Mankato, Minnesota-headquartered consulting firm providing civil engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental services to municipalities across the Upper Midwest. Comparable multi-office Midwest municipal engineering model.
• Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (SEH): Employee-owned engineering, architecture, and planning firm headquartered in Minnesota with offices across the Midwest. Directly comparable in municipal engineering, transportation, and surveying services for public-sector clients.
• KLJ Engineering (KLJ Solutions, LLC): North Dakota-headquartered multi-discipline engineering, planning, and surveying firm serving municipalities, transportation, and energy clients in the Upper Midwest. Overlapping service portfolio and similar municipal client base.
• Houston Engineering, Inc. Fargo, ND-based engineering and surveying firm specializing in water resources, transportation, municipal infrastructure, and floodplain management across the Upper Midwest. Comparable municipal engineering and FEMA/floodplain service mix.
• Fehr Graham: Illinois/Iowa-based engineering and environmental firm serving municipal and private clients with civil, structural, environmental, and surveying services. Comparable Midwest regional municipal consulting model.
• Widseth (Widseth Smith Nolting & Associates): Minnesota-based architecture, engineering, surveying, and environmental services firm with offices across the Upper Midwest. Comparable service lines and small-to-mid-sized Midwest municipal client base.
• DGR Engineering: Rock Rapids, Iowa-based multi-discipline engineering firm providing civil, structural, electrical, and surveying services to municipal and utility clients in Iowa, South Dakota, and the surrounding region. Directly comparable regional Midwest competitor.
• Bartlett & West, Inc. Topeka, KS-based engineering, architecture, and surveying firm with offices across the Midwest serving municipal, transportation, and utility clients. Comparable service mix and small-city public-sector orientation.

Broad incumbents

• Burns & McDonnell: Large, employee-owned AEC firm headquartered in Kansas City with broad civil, transportation, water, and environmental practices serving municipal and utility clients nationwide. Not a direct local competitor, but represents the kind of incumbent McLaury competes against for larger regional municipal work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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