Snipes-Dye associates

What Snipes-Dye associates does

Snipes-Dye Associates is a private civil engineering and land surveying professional services firm headquartered in La Mesa, California, operating primarily in San Diego County. The firm is organized around two core service lines — Civil Engineering and Land Surveying — delivered as integrated project engagements by an integrated team of roughly 20 staff under hands-on principal and project-manager involvement from inception through completion. Civil engineering offerings span Planning Services, Public Infrastructure, Site Development, and Stormwater Management (the last delivered by in-house Qualified SWPPP Developers and Practitioners). Land surveying offerings span topographic surveys, construction staking, boundary and property line surveys, utility mark-out, ALTA, GPS, aerial photogrammetry, and related supplemental surveys. The firm also operates Professional Drone Video Services under an FAA Certified Licensed Remote Pilot (#4640009), used for aerial documentation and survey support from project inception to completion.

Revenue is generated through negotiated, scope-of-work professional services fees across these modules; no public rate cards or standard pricing is disclosed. The customer base is heavily concentrated in public-sector and institutional clients in Southern California, including long-tenured relationships with San Diego Gas & Electric (10+ years), San Bernardino Community College District (15 years), San Diego Unified School District, San Diego State University, City of El Cajon, San Diego Zoo, and San Diego International Airport (with Jacobs and Sundt Construction). The firm has delivered award-winning projects, including the 2019 Civic/Assembly national award-winning El Cajon Animal Shelter (the City of El Cajon's first design-build project) and 2020 APWA Project of the Year for the SDSU ENS 700 Field (as part of the FPBA-led team). Leadership is anchored by Principal Matthew P. Kurtz (Registered Civil Engineer in California and Arizona, joined 2010), with founder-era Licensed Land Surveyor William A. Snipes (joined 1982) now in Emeritus status following a 2026 retirement. The firm holds no disclosed funding, parent company, or institutional shareholders; ownership signals are limited to named principals.

Name

Snipes-Dye associates

Legal name

Snipes-Dye Associates

Website

https://snipesdye.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Snipes-Dye Associates is a private civil engineering and land surveying firm in La Mesa, California, delivering planning, public infrastructure, site development, stormwater management, and full surveying services to public-sector and institutional clients across San Diego County via project-based professional engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering and Land Surveying Services

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Land surveying services
• Stormwater management design
• Site development engineering
• Topographic surveying

Headquarters

HQ city

La Mesa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Civil Engineering Services: Project-based fees for planning, public infrastructure design, site development, and stormwater management services billed via scope-of-work engagements.
2. Land Surveying Services: Project-based fees for topographic, boundary, construction staking, utility mark-out, ALTA, GPS, and aerial photogrammetry surveys.
3. Drone Aerial Video and Photogrammetry Services: FAA-licensed aerial drone video and photogrammetry delivered as a professional service add-on from project inception to completion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Snipes-Dye Associates provides project-based civil engineering and land surveying professional services. The Civil Engineering line includes planning, public infrastructure design, site development, and stormwater management (with QSD/QSP-certified engineers). The Land Surveying line delivers topographic, boundary, construction staking, ALTA, GPS, aerial photogrammetry, and utility mark-out surveys. The firm also offers FAA-licensed drone aerial video and photogrammetry services (Remote Pilot #4640009). All work is delivered by an integrated project team with hands-on principal involvement from inception to completion.

Product overview

Snipes-Dye Associates offers a single unified professional services practice delivered through two primary service lines — Civil Engineering and Land Surveying — each composed of multiple specialized service modules. The Civil Engineering line comprises Planning Services, Public Infrastructure Services, Site Development Services, and Stormwater Management Services (the last staffed by Qualified SWPPP Developers and Practitioners). The Land Surveying line comprises Topographic Surveys and Mapping, Construction Staking, Boundary and Property Line Survey Services, and Additional Survey Services (which include aerial photogrammetry and utility mark-out surveys). Across both lines the firm also provides Professional Drone Video Services, operated by an FAA-certified remote pilot, which is used to support engineering and surveying projects throughout their life cycle. All modules are delivered by the same integrated project team, with hands-on involvement from principals and project managers from inception through completion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Psomas: California-headquartered engineering, surveying, planning, and geospatial services firm. Directly comparable to Snipes-Dye in civil engineering + land surveying delivery model and California public-sector client base, though at much larger scale.
• Wallace Group: California-based civil engineering, land surveying, planning, and construction management firm serving public agencies. Closely comparable in service mix and mid-sized firm profile to Snipes-Dye.
• Dokken Engineering: California civil engineering firm specializing in transportation, water resources, and public infrastructure. Comparable to Snipes-Dye in California public-sector focus and civil/water-resource capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm (NYSE: ACM) with significant California public-infrastructure practice. Comparable at the project-type level to Snipes-Dye, particularly on transportation and water work, but at vastly larger scale.
• Kimley-Horn: Large U.S. planning and engineering design firm with major California practice in land development, transportation, and water. Directly comparable service lines to Snipes-Dye, but at substantially greater headcount and geographic reach.
• NV5 Global: Public infrastructure, geospatial, and engineering consulting firm (NASDAQ: NVEE). Comparable to Snipes-Dye across civil engineering, surveying, and aerial/drone capabilities, but operates at national scale across many service lines.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm (TSX/NYSE: STN). Comparable across public infrastructure and stormwater/water practice areas, though much larger and more diversified.
• Tetra Tech: Global consulting and engineering firm (NASDAQ: TTEK) with deep water resources and environmental practice. Overlaps SDA's stormwater management capabilities and serves similar California public-sector clients.
• Michael Baker International: Nationwide civil engineering and consulting firm (NYSE: MBI) covering transportation, water, and public infrastructure. Overlaps Snipes-Dye's public infrastructure and site development offerings at significantly larger scale.
• KPFF Consulting Engineers: Large U.S. civil and structural engineering consultancy with strong Pacific Coast public-sector practice. Comparable in core civil engineering services, but operates across multiple disciplines and geographies far beyond SDA's footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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