What B & F Engineering does

Crafton Tull, formerly operating its Hot Springs office as B&F Engineering, is a 100% employee-owned professional planning, design, and surveying firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas. The firm operates 11 offices across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri, and delivers multi-discipline services spanning civil engineering (city/local streets, highways and bridges, site development, water resources, utility design), structural engineering, environmental services (wetland delineation, NEPA documentation, Phase I ESAs, green infrastructure), landscape architecture (through the wholly-owned Prism Design Studio sub-brand), architecture, urban and regional planning, and surveying (including ALTA surveys, boundary/plats, topography, GIS services, construction staking, LiDAR 3D scanning, and UAV surveying). Its differentiated technology stack centers on UAV/LiDAR-based aerial topographic surveys for hazardous sites, GIS-integrated field-to-office real-time data flows, and hydrologic/hydraulic modeling using HEC-RAS for stream restoration and stormwater analysis.

The firm's primary customer segment is state, county, and municipal government agencies — including Pulaski County, the City of Little Rock, Arkansas Department of Transportation, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Metroplan, and multiple Arkansas municipalities — supplemented by private developers, school districts, and healthcare providers. Revenue is generated through fee-for-service professional services contracts on a project-by-project basis, with scope and pricing determined by complexity and client requirements; the firm supports online invoice payment through QuickClick. Notable outcomes include support for RAISE grants totaling more than $52M (Conway $24.6M, Russellville $23.4M, Searcy $4.2M), a $110M bond project in Searcy, enabling infrastructure for the Amazon LIT-1 Fulfillment Center, and the 2024 ACEC Arkansas Grand Conceptor Award for the Highway 71B/I-49 Single Point Urban Interchange. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales — direct engagement with municipal and government clients across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas — supported by thought-leadership content, project case studies, public engagement sessions, and federal/state grant application assistance. The firm's active-transportation education sub-brand Laneshift extends its reach into municipal staff training.

Name

B & F Engineering

Legal name

Crafton Tull

Website

https://bnfeng.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1963

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Crafton Tull (formerly B&F Engineering in Hot Springs) is a 100% employee-owned, multi-discipline planning, design, and surveying firm founded in 1963, operating 11 offices across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri to serve municipal and state government clients with civil, structural, environmental, planning, architecture, and surveying services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering & Infrastructure Design Services

NAICS

Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Utility System Construction (2371)

SIC

Construction - Special Trade Contractors (1700)

akta.pro primary industry

Construction Management (Agency/Owner’s Rep) (IMAFAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC), Sustainable/Green Building & LEED Consulting (BPAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Structural engineering
• Land surveying
• Landscape architecture
• Community planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Hot Springs Village

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Planning and Design: Fee-for-service professional engineering and design services for municipal infrastructure, transportation, water resources, parks, and community development projects

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Crafton Tull is a 100% employee-owned professional planning, design, and surveying firm offering multi-discipline services including civil engineering, structural engineering, architecture, environmental services, landscape architecture (via Prism Design Studio), planning, and surveying. The firm delivers city streets, highways, bridges, water resources, parks, trails, and community development projects for municipalities, state agencies, and private developers primarily across Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Product overview

Crafton Tull (formerly B & F Engineering at its Hot Springs office) is a 100% employee-owned professional planning, design, and surveying firm offering multi-discipline services. The company provides Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Services, Landscape Architecture (through Prism Design Studio), Planning, Structural Engineering, and Surveying. The firm operates across Arkansas and Oklahoma with 11 office locations and serves markets including Active Transportation, Commercial, Community, Education, Energy, Health, Industrial, Local Infrastructure, Parks, Residential, Trails, Transportation, and Water/Wastewater sectors. Services are delivered through integrated disciplines working collaboratively on projects spanning infrastructure, transportation, parks, water resources, and community development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Prism Design Studio: Comprehensive landscape architecture services operating as an extension of Crafton Tull, led by Jenny Burbidge
• Laneshift

Products and services

• Civil Engineering Services Comprehensive civil engineering services including city and local streets, highways and bridges, site development, water resources, utility design, and construction services for municipal and private clients.
• Architecture Architectural services led by Vice President of Architecture Wes Burgess, AIA, LEED AP, serving various commercial and community needs.
• Environmental Services Environmental studies, permitting, and documentation including wetland identification and delineation, NEPA documentation, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, and green infrastructure services.
• Landscape Architecture (Prism Design Studio) Landscape architecture services offered through Prism Design Studio (wholly-owned subsidiary), led by Jenny Burbidge, PLA, ASLA, including site planning, hardscape design, inclusive playgrounds, bike park design, and streetscape design.
• Planning Services Urban and regional planning services including comprehensive planning, active transportation planning, parks and recreation planning, and community development.
• Structural Engineering Structural engineering services for bridges, buildings, and infrastructure projects, led by Vice President of Structural Engineering Tim Tieaskie, P.E.
• Surveying Services Comprehensive surveying including ALTA Surveys, design surveys, boundary/plats, topography, lot splits, control surveys, easement descriptions, right-of-way descriptions, GIS services, construction staking, as-builts, LiDAR 3D scanning, UAV surveying, and GIS database management for stormwater infrastructure.
• Active Transportation Services Active transportation planning and design services including citywide bicycle and pedestrian plans, regional pathway planning, greenway master plans, corridor planning, bike route feasibility studies, community walk audits, public engagement sessions, grant applications, and multi-use pathway design.
• Laneshift (Active Transportation Academy) Active transportation education and facilitation service led by Founder Ryan Hale, offering the Active Transportation Academy — a four-day professional development course that puts mayors, city engineers, and planners on e-bikes to experience active transportation firsthand.

Quantifiable outcome

• $24.6M RAISE grant awarded to Conway for 15 miles of multi-use trails
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and notable.

• Wright Water EngineerssupportingTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2021Assisted Crafton Tull with comprehensive Rogers Stormwater Study and Drainage Manual update, providing specialized water resources engineering expertise.
• Toole DesignnotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Collaborated on Central Arkansas Regional Greenways Plan to map approximately 222 miles of trail network across four counties.
• Halff AssociatessupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Provided master planning, field design, and landscape architecture for Majestic Park Baseball Complex project.
• Arkansas Game and Fish CommissionnotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2019Partnership to conduct survey of Cox Creek Lake land boundaries to ensure accurate markings consistent with original 1964 development intent. Team members used RTK GPS system to recalibrate equipment to calculate 1964 terrain.
• EnSafenotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Hired by State's representative for response actions at Bella Vista stump dump underground fire emergency. Crafton Tull used UAV/LiDAR technology to safely survey hazardous site.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Freese and Nichols: Freese and Nichols is a Texas-based, employee-owned engineering and planning firm with broad water, transportation, and environmental services. Comparable ownership model and overlapping services, but significantly larger and broader geographic reach.
• HDR: HDR is a global architecture, engineering, and consulting firm with substantial transportation, water, environmental, and planning practices. Active across Arkansas and Oklahoma on DOT and municipal work, competing for the same types of public-sector clients as Crafton Tull at a much larger scale.
• Kimley-Horn: Kimley-Horn is a large national planning and engineering design consulting firm with deep municipal infrastructure, transportation, environmental, and land development practices. Competes with Crafton Tull on larger regional projects and represents a major incumbent in the broader A&E market.

Direct peers

• McClelland Consulting Engineers: McClelland is an Arkansas-based civil, structural, and environmental engineering firm serving municipal, commercial, and institutional clients. Direct regional competitor with overlapping Arkansas municipal infrastructure focus.
• Halff Associates: Halff is a Texas-based multi-discipline engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm serving municipal, transportation, and water clients across the South. Highly comparable in service mix (including landscape architecture and parks/trails planning) and is an existing partner of Crafton Tull.
• CEI Engineering Associates: CEI is a multi-office civil engineering, planning, surveying, and environmental services firm headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Direct competitor in the same Northwest Arkansas municipal and private development market.
• Garver: Garver is a multi-discipline engineering, planning, and environmental services firm headquartered in Arkansas/Oklahoma with comparable regional municipal infrastructure, transportation, water, and surveying services. Directly overlaps Crafton Tull's Arkansas-Oklahoma footprint and service mix.
• Toole Design: Toole Design is a national planning and engineering firm specializing in active transportation, trails, and multimodal design. Existing partner on Crafton Tull's Central Arkansas Regional Greenways Plan and highly comparable in active transportation/funding-grant work.
• Olsson: Olsson is an employee-owned engineering and design firm with strong presence in Arkansas and the central US, offering civil, structural, environmental, and surveying services for municipal clients. Closely comparable in ownership model, geographic overlap, and service portfolio.

Emerging players

• Wright Water Engineers: Wright Water Engineers is a Colorado-based water resources and stormwater engineering firm known for hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, low-impact development, and stormwater manuals. Existing partner on Crafton Tull's Rogers Stormwater Study and a niche specialist in a key Crafton Tull vertical.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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