Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc.

What Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc. does

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc. (CTA) is a privately held, multi-disciplinary civil engineering consulting firm headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded in 1961 by Warren Craven, P.E. The firm operates six in-house service lines: Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Surveying and Mapping, Land Planning, GIS Services, and Construction Services. Its technology stack centers on conventional geospatial instrumentation rather than software platforms — including 3D laser scanning (High Definition Surveying), terrestrial and aerial LIDAR, GPS/GNSS systems, FAA Part 107-certified drone operations, AutoCAD, MicroStation, and ESRI ArcGIS — used to deliver project-level deliverables rather than packaged software products. CTA generates revenue through project-based professional services fees billed to clients under engagement letters, task orders, and on-call municipal consulting contracts; pricing is not publicly disclosed and varies by scope.

The firm serves two primary customer segments: South Florida municipal and county government agencies (Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties, including the Cities of Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Hollywood, Coral Springs, Miramar, North Miami Beach, and Greenacres as General Consultant since 2007), and private sector developers across commercial, residential, mixed-use, industrial, hospitality, healthcare, and aviation end-markets. Go-to-market is relationship-driven, led by a Director of Municipal Services and Business Development, with no external sales channels, resellers, or paid marketing. CTA reports 85 employees including 17 Professional Engineers, 4 Registered Surveyors, and 4 Registered Landscape Architects, with nearly 50% staff tenure exceeding ten years. The firm has no external funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no patents, no documented partnerships, and no awards listed in the available data.

Name

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc.

Legal name

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc.

Website

https://craventhompson.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Craven Thompson & Associates is a privately held civil engineering consulting firm founded in 1961 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It delivers engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, land planning, GIS, and construction services to South Florida municipal governments and private developers through project-based engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Services

NAICS

Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Landscape architecture design
• Surveying and mapping
• Land planning entitlements
• GIS mapping services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Project-based consulting fees for civil engineering services including studies, plans, calculations, specifications, permitting, construction observation, and contract administration. Services provided to governmental agencies and private developers on a per-project basis.
2. Surveying and Mapping Services: Professional surveying services including boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction surveys, 3D laser scanning, hydrographic surveys, and GIS mapping services. Charged on a per-project basis for municipal and private clients.
3. Landscape Architecture Services: Landscape architectural design services including master planning, site planning, landscape design, hardscape design, irrigation design, and parks/recreation design for public and private development projects.
4. Land Planning Services: Planning and entitlement services including plat preparation, rezoning applications, land use amendments, development of regional impact applications, and administrative processing of project approvals.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc. is a multi-disciplinary civil engineering and consulting firm offering six coordinated in-house service lines: Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Surveying and Mapping, Land Planning, GIS Services, and Construction Services. The firm delivers total coordinated projects from site evaluation through completion for municipal and private developer clients across South Florida. Services are billed on a per-project basis as professional consulting engagements.

Product overview

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc. (CTA) is a multi-disciplinary civil engineering and consulting firm offering six coordinated in-house service lines: Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Surveying and Mapping, Land Planning, GIS Services, and Construction Services. The firm coordinates these disciplines — planners, surveyors, engineers, landscape architects, and GIS specialists — to deliver total coordinated projects from site evaluation through completion. The six services function as an integrated portfolio, each staffed by specialized teams, rather than as a single unified software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Engineering Civil engineering services including site engineering, storm drainage studies and design, pump stations, water distribution systems, wastewater collection and transmission systems, lift stations, complete streets, roadway design, traffic calming, neighborhood improvement studies, retrofit and rehabilitation, construction management, and construction observation. Provided to municipal agencies and private developers in South Florida.
• Landscape Architecture Landscape architectural services including master planning, due diligence and feasibility studies, site planning and processing, landscape and hardscape design, resort planning, irrigation design, SFWMD consumptive water use permitting, parks and recreation design, roadway and streetscape design, and LEED AP services for public and private development projects in South Florida.
• Surveying and Mapping Full-spectrum surveying services including boundary, topographic, construction, hydrographic, cadastral, photogrammetric control, right-of-way, and expert witness testimony, augmented by 3D laser scanning (high-definition surveying), GPS, and geodetic control capabilities. Served municipal and private clients throughout South Florida.
• Land Planning Land planning services including preparation and processing of plats, delegation requests, rezonings, variances, land use plan amendments, developments of regional impact, right-of-way vacations, easement abandonments, and site-specific due diligence studies for public and private development projects.
• GIS Services Geographic Information Systems services including conversions from AutoCAD/MicroStation to ESRI ArcGIS, GPS data collection and processing, geodatabase design and maintenance, map production, terrestrial and aerial LiDAR analysis and modeling, digital elevation modeling, environmental modeling, and site analysis for municipal and private clients.
• Construction Services Construction services including contract administration, value engineering, constructability reviews, project management schedule and cost control, full-time and part-time construction inspection, surface water five-year inspection reports, and permit tracking for public and private projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,500,000 linear feet of water, sanitary sewer and storm drainage pipe designed, permitted, bid and/or constructed in the past decade
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers24 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ardurra Group: Florida-based engineering and consulting firm providing civil engineering, surveying, and planning services to municipalities and private developers. Directly comparable in service scope and target market to CTA.
• WGI, Inc. Florida-headquartered multidisciplinary firm offering civil engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, planning, and GIS services to municipal and private clients across the Southeast. Closest comparable peer given parallel service mix and regional focus.
• KCI Technologies: Multi-disciplinary engineering firm with practices in transportation, utilities, surveying, and construction services. Competes in similar municipal and private infrastructure markets to CTA.
• Colliers Engineering & Design (formerly Maser Consulting): Multidisciplinary engineering, surveying, and planning firm with strong East Coast presence and active land development and municipal practice. Comparable service mix and customer profile to CTA.
• Calvin, Giordano & Associates: Fort Lauderdale-headquartered engineering, surveying, planning, and landscape architecture firm serving South Florida municipalities and private developers. Same geography, same services, same customer base as CTA.
• Chen Moore and Associates: Florida-based civil engineering, water resources, and land development consulting firm serving public and private clients. Comparable in municipal focus and project types to CTA.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with strong Florida practice in transportation, water, and urban development. Overlaps with CTA on municipal engineering and land development but serves a much broader portfolio of clients and geographies.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with significant Florida presence in community development, water, and infrastructure. Competes for the same municipal and private-sector work as CTA but at much greater scale.
• T.Y. Lin International: Global engineering and infrastructure consulting firm with civil, structural, and surveying practices. Competes for selected municipal infrastructure and land development projects similar to those CTA pursues.
• Kimley-Horn: One of the largest U.S. planning and engineering design consulting firms, with deep Florida practice in land development, transportation, and municipal engineering. Significantly larger and broader but directly competes for the same municipal and developer contracts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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