Western Pacific Engineering & Survey

What Western Pacific Engineering & Survey does

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey, Inc. (WPES) is a privately held civil engineering, land surveying, materials testing, and land use planning firm founded in 1976 and headquartered in Moses Lake, Washington. The firm operates four integrated service lines — Engineering, Surveying, Testing, and Planning — delivered as a one-stop-shop across the project lifecycle from inception through construction completion. WPES holds in-house materials testing capability certified to ACI and ASTM standards for concrete, asphalt, sieve, and compaction testing, and offers a registered professional land surveying team handling boundary, construction staking, ALTA, and cadastral work.

The firm serves a horizontal mix of clients including individual property owners, contractors, architects, municipalities, real estate developers, and large industrial corporations, with primary concentration in Grant, Kittitas, and Adams counties in eastern Washington and stated capability to serve statewide and national clients. Visible enterprise customers include Port of Moses Lake, REC Silicon, SGL Group, and DFI, indicating trusted-vendor status with both public-sector and industrial asset owners. The team comprises approximately 20 employees, including multiple registered professional engineers (PEs), professional land surveyors (PLSs), engineers-in-training (EITs), and a planner, with combined credentials spanning civil engineering, surveying, planning, and materials testing. PE credentials are licensed in both Washington and Idaho, suggesting latent cross-state capability.

WPES generates revenue through project-based professional service fees quoted per engagement based on scope, site conditions, and requirements; no standard pricing tiers are publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, with minimal digital marketing, relying on regional reputation, the wpeinc.net website, and direct phone/email inquiry. The firm is independent, with no disclosed external investors, parent company, or M&A activity, and operates as a stable, founder/management-owned professional services practice.

Name

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey

Legal name

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey, Inc.

Website

https://wpeinc.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey is a Moses Lake, Washington-based civil engineering, surveying, materials testing, and land use planning firm serving individuals, contractors, municipalities, developers, and corporations across eastern Washington since 1976.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Services

NAICS

Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (541690)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Geotechnical & Subsurface Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAB)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Land surveying services
• Materials testing laboratory
• Geotechnical investigation
• Land use planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Moses Lake

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Engineering Services: Project-based consulting fees for engineering design, surveying, materials testing, and planning services. Services provided from project inception through construction completion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey is a professional engineering firm providing civil engineering design, land surveying, materials testing, and land use planning services. The firm delivers integrated services from project inception through construction completion, including site plans, grading plans, utility design, geotechnical investigation, environmental assessments, platting, construction staking, concrete/asphalt testing, and permitting assistance for clients across Washington State.

Product overview

Western Pacific Engineering & Survey (WPES) offers a unified portfolio of four integrated service lines for land development and construction projects: Engineering Services, Surveying Services, Testing Services, and Planning Services. These services are designed to work together across all phases of a project from inception through construction completion, serving clients including individuals, contractors, architects, municipalities, developers, and corporations throughout Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Engineering Services Comprehensive civil engineering services including site plans, grading plans, utility design, septic system design, water system design, road and street design, structural design, geotechnical investigation, feasibility studies, and environmental assessments (Phase 1 and Phase 2). Serves contractors, architects, municipalities, developers, and large corporations.
• Surveying Services Professional land surveying including platting (major/long plat, short plat), boundary line adjustment surveys, construction staking, record of survey, cadastral surveys, legal descriptions, ALTA surveys, topography mapping, and binding site plans.
• Testing Services Materials testing including geotechnical investigation, concrete testing (ACI and ASTM standards), asphalt testing (rice method, coring method), sieve analysis, compaction testing, and commercial/industrial inspection services performed in a fully equipped in-house laboratory.
• Planning Services Land development planning including commercial and residential development, binding site plans, planned unit developments, SEPA reports, master planned developments, and permitting assistance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Phase 1 Environmental Assessments with no environmental issues beyond original investigation scope in 15+ years of service

Named customers4 records

Segments6 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

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Port of Moses LakecoreOthersClient of Western Pacific Engineering & Survey. Logo displayed on About page indicating ongoing engineering and surveying service relationship.
• REC SiliconcoreOthersClient of Western Pacific Engineering & Survey. Logo displayed on About page indicating engineering services for their Moses Lake, Washington silicon production facility.
• SGL GroupcoreOthersClient of Western Pacific Engineering & Survey. Logo displayed on About page indicating engineering services relationship.
• DFIcoreOthersClient of Western Pacific Engineering & Survey. Logo displayed on About page indicating engineering and surveying services relationship.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• GeoEngineers: Pacific Northwest geotechnical and environmental consulting firm with offices in Washington and Oregon. Strong overlap with WPES's geotechnical investigation, materials testing, and Phase 1 ESA work.
• J-U-B Engineers: Multi-office civil engineering, planning, surveying, and construction services firm serving the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, and Idaho. Comparable mid-size multi-discipline peer to WPES.
• DOWL: Pacific Northwest-based engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental services firm serving municipalities, developers, and tribal clients across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Comparable in service breadth and customer segments to WPES.
• Otak: Architecture, engineering, planning, and surveying firm with offices across the Pacific Northwest. Comparable in providing integrated site development services to municipalities and developers.
• PBS Engineering and Environmental: Pacific Northwest civil engineering, geotechnical, environmental, and surveying firm headquartered in Portland. Comparable to WPES across engineering, testing, and environmental assessment lines.
• Perteet Engineering: Washington-based civil and structural engineering, surveying, and construction management firm serving public and private clients in the Puget Sound and eastern Washington. Direct regional peer with similar service offering.
• AHBL (now part of TRC Companies): Multi-discipline civil engineering, surveying, planning, and construction management firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. Direct comparable to WPES in service mix and regional market footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Tetra Tech: Global consulting and engineering firm with significant water, environmental, geotechnical, and infrastructure practices in the Pacific Northwest. Operates broadly in WPES's core service areas but as part of a much larger portfolio.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with extensive civil engineering, environmental, and surveying capabilities. Provides overlapping capabilities to WPES but at much larger scale and project scope.

Regional players

• Keller Associates: Civil engineering and surveying firm headquartered in Idaho with offices in eastern Washington and Oregon. Comparable in scale, service mix, and Pacific Northwest regional focus to WPES.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/WesternPacificEngineering
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/western-pacific-engieering-survey

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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