Shafer, Kline & Warren

What Shafer, Kline & Warren does

Shafer, Kline & Warren is a privately held, for-profit construction services firm headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri, United States, operating under the website skw-inc.com. The firm has been in continuous operation since its founding in 1950, giving it roughly seven and a half decades of operating history. Per the available firmographic description, SKW provides surveying, engineering, and construction services, spanning the upstream (land surveying and measurement), midstream (engineering design), and downstream (construction execution) phases of built-environment projects. The firm reports a headcount in the 251-500 range, placing it in the mid-market segment of U.S. infrastructure services providers.

The input contains no information on SKW's underlying technology stack, proprietary platforms, or technical differentiators; the core_technology field is empty and no proprietary features are listed. Similarly, no pricing model, go-to-market motion, customer segmentation detail beyond a "Vertical" segmentation approach, named customer logos, awards, patents, partnerships, or geographic footprint beyond the North Kansas City headquarters is disclosed. The company's own website, as captured in the input, returned only a loader/verification placeholder with no substantive content. As a result, the business model mechanics — how SKW wins work (e.g., competitive bidding, design-build contracts, on-call engineering agreements), how it prices (cost-plus, fixed fee, unit-rate surveying), and how it monetizes — cannot be characterized from the supplied evidence and any further description would be inference rather than grounded fact.

The only first-party structural facts available are the legal-entity form (private, for-profit), the long operating history, the U.S. Midwest base, and the multi-discipline services scope across surveying, engineering, and construction. No subsidiaries, parent company, funding rounds, M&A history, leadership team, regulatory actions, or restructuring events are recorded in the input. This places SKW in the category of established, mid-sized, regionally anchored professional services firms whose public information footprint in the supplied sources is limited.

Name

Shafer, Kline & Warren

Website

https://skw-inc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Shafer, Kline & Warren is a privately held construction services firm headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1950. It provides surveying, engineering, and construction services to clients in the United States with a 251-500 employee workforce.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering & Surveying Services

NAICS

Oil and Gas Pipeline and Related Structures Construction (23712), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction (1623), Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389)

akta.pro primary industry

Trenching & Utility Excavation (IMAFAKAD)

Keywords

• Surveying services
• Engineering services
• Construction services
• Civil engineering
• Land surveying

Headquarters

HQ city

North Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Shafer, Kline & Warren is a construction company providing surveying, engineering, and construction services. The firm delivers professional land surveying, civil/structural engineering, and construction services to support infrastructure and development projects across the United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Surveying Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Henkels & McCoy: Privately held infrastructure services contractor providing pipeline, utility, and communications construction — directly overlapping SKW's core oil & gas pipeline and utility construction offering.
• MYR Group: Specialty contractor in electrical construction and utility-scale infrastructure; comparable mid-market scale and overlap with SKW's utility-side construction work.
• Garney Construction: Employee-owned water and pipeline infrastructure contractor with a similar privately held, mid-sized EPC profile to SKW, serving municipal and energy clients across the central U.S.

Broad incumbents

• Black & Veatch: Global employee-owned engineering, procurement, and construction firm focused on water, energy, and telecommunications — overlapping with SKW's utility and energy infrastructure design-build work.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting and construction firm covering transportation, water, and energy markets; competes for the same large-scale EPC programs that SKW targets regionally.
• MasTec: Large publicly traded infrastructure construction firm with significant oil & gas pipeline, utility, and communications segments — competes for the same midstream and utility project pipeline as SKW but at national scale.
• Burns & McDonnell: Kansas City-headquartered, employee-owned engineering, architecture, and construction firm; direct geographic and discipline overlap with SKW's surveying and engineering practice.
• Quanta Services: Leading publicly traded utility and pipeline infrastructure services provider; offers the same end-to-end surveying, engineering, and construction model SKW pursues, but across North America with a much larger resource base.
• Primoris Services Corporation: Public infrastructure construction firm with utility, pipeline, and civil segments — directly comparable in scope to SKW's energy infrastructure EPC services.

Emerging players

• TRC Companies: Engineering and consulting firm with growing pipeline, utility, and environmental infrastructure practices; comparable to SKW's surveying/engineering services, particularly in energy transition and environmental work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/skwinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/skwinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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