Hall and Hall Engineers

What Hall and Hall Engineers does

Hall & Hall Engineers, Inc. is a privately held, employee-owned civil engineering and land surveying firm headquartered in Hiawatha, Iowa, operating primarily in Eastern Iowa and the broader Midwest. Founded in 1953 in Cedar Rapids by a two-person practice, the firm has grown to approximately 20 staff offering civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, planning, and construction administration services. Its client base spans municipalities and K-12 school districts (City of Hiawatha, Mt. Vernon CSD, Linn-Mar CSD, College Community SD), private developers (Skogman Companies, Twenty40, Midwest Development Company), industrial counterparties (Cargill), and contractors (Echelon Constructors).

The firm's technical stack centers on conventional design and measurement tooling: AutoCAD Civil 3D for drafting and design, GPS/RTK and robotic total stations for surveying, drones for aerial data capture, and HEC-RAS/HEC-HMS for hydraulic and hydrologic modeling. Project delivery is supported by in-house professional licensure across civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and floodplain management, which is a prerequisite for stamping public-sector work in Iowa.

The business model is professional services fee-for-project, with revenue earned through design, surveying, planning, and construction-administration contracts on a project-by-project basis for both public and private clients. The 2013 conversion to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) restructured ownership away from founders and into broad staff ownership, aligning incentives around continuity rather than rapid scaling. The firm marked its 70th anniversary in 2023 and has maintained multi-decade relationships with several named clients, suggesting an operating posture oriented to stable, recurring engagement rather than expansion-driven growth.

Name

Hall and Hall Engineers

Legal name

Hall & Hall Engineers, Inc.

Website

https://halleng.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hall & Hall Engineers is an employee-owned civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and planning firm in Hiawatha, Iowa, serving municipalities, school districts, developers, and industrial clients across Eastern Iowa.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hiawatha

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Civil Engineering: Project-based civil engineering design services for site development, municipal projects, transportation, utilities, and water resources. Revenue generated through consulting fees for engineering design, surveying, construction observation, and related professional services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Hall and Hall Engineers, Inc. provides civil engineering, land surveying, and related professional services including site design, construction administration, utilities, traffic and transportation engineering, water resources, landscape architecture, and planning. The firm serves municipalities, school districts, developers, and commercial/industrial clients in Eastern Iowa and the broader Midwest region.

Product overview

Hall & Hall Engineers (HHE) is a civil engineering firm providing a comprehensive suite of engineering and design services. The company operates as a unified service offering organized around ten core service areas: Site Design/Civil Engineering (the primary service), Land Surveying, Construction Services, Utilities, Traffic & Transportation, Drone Services, Visualization, Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Water Resources. These services serve municipalities, utilities, roads, schools, businesses, and industries across the Midwest. The firm does not offer a software product but rather professional engineering consulting services delivered by project managers and technical experts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Engineering Services
• Land Surveying Services Professional land surveying for site, infrastructure, and development projects.
• Site Design
• Construction Services
• Utilities Engineering
• Traffic and Transportation Engineering
• Drone Services
• Visualization Services
• Landscape Architecture
• Planning Services
• Water Resources Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects ranging from individual sites to large regional developments
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• SEH (Short Elliott Hendrickson): SEH is a Midwest-based engineering, architecture, and planning consultancy serving municipal, transportation, water, and environmental clients. Broad incumbent with overlapping service lines but a much larger geographic footprint and broader service portfolio.
• Stanley Consultants: Stanley Consultants is a Muscatine, Iowa-based global engineering consultancy offering transportation, water, infrastructure, and energy services. Broad incumbent operating in the same regional base but serving a larger national/international project portfolio across multiple engineering disciplines.

Direct peers

• Bolton & Menk: Bolton & Menk is a Minnesota-based civil engineering and planning consulting firm serving municipalities, counties, and developers. Direct peer offering similar municipal, transportation, water, and land development services across the Upper Midwest.
• MSA Professional Services: MSA Professional Services is a Wisconsin-based architecture, engineering, and planning firm serving municipal, educational, and private development clients. Direct peer in similar mid-size professional services civil engineering model across the Upper Midwest.
• HR Green: HR Green is a Cedar Rapids-headquartered engineering, technical, and management consulting firm offering civil, transportation, water, and land development services. Direct peer based on same Eastern Iowa geography and nearly identical service portfolio targeting municipal, commercial, and educational clients.
• Foth: Foth is a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based infrastructure and environmental engineering consulting firm serving municipal, industrial, and private sector clients. Direct peer in geography and overlapping civil/site design, transportation, and water services.
• Snyder & Associates: Snyder & Associates is an Iowa-based civil engineering, planning, and surveying firm serving municipalities, developers, and private clients. Direct peer offering overlapping site design, transportation, water resources, and surveying services in the same regional market.
• McClure Engineering: McClure Engineering is a Midwest-based civil engineering and surveying firm serving municipalities, developers, and commercial clients. Direct peer offering comparable site design, transportation, water resources, and surveying services in adjacent geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HandHEngineers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hall-and-hall-engineers-inc-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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