What Gavan & Barker does

Gavan & Barker is a privately held civil engineering and landscape architecture firm headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, employing 11 to 50 people. The firm delivers professional design services across three core disciplines: site design, roadway design, and drainage design — foundational capabilities in land development and municipal infrastructure engineering.

Operating from Phoenix, the firm is positioned within the metropolitan Phoenix development market, one of the fastest-growing metros in the United States. This geographic concentration in a high-growth Sun Belt market is consistent with a small specialized consultancy serving private developers, homebuilders, and potentially municipal clients on subdivision, commercial, and roadway projects. The combination of civil engineering and landscape architecture suggests integrated site-development capabilities that span grading, drainage, and aesthetic/functional landscape design, which is a common service bundle for residential and commercial land development work.

Public information is limited: no revenue, customer logos, ownership structure, management team, project portfolio, or strategic transactions are disclosed in the supplied data. As a for-profit private company with no disclosed funding rounds or M&A activity, the firm appears to be a closely held operating business whose scale, customer mix, and growth trajectory cannot be reliably inferred beyond the firmographic facts provided.

Name

Gavan & Barker

Legal name

Huitt-Zollars, Inc.

Website

https://gavanbarker.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gavan & Barker is a Phoenix-based civil engineering and landscape architecture firm offering site design, roadway design, and drainage design services. With 11-50 employees, the firm serves land development and infrastructure clients in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Fee-for-service professional design engagements providing architectural and engineering services across multiple disciplines for projects in commercial, government, institutional, and residential markets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Gavan & Barker provides civil engineering and landscape architecture services in the areas of site design, roadway design, and drainage design. The firm is a privately held, for-profit entity operating from Phoenix, United States, with 11–50 employees.

Product overview

Huitt-Zollars is an architectural and engineering (AE) design firm offering a unified portfolio of professional services rather than a software product. The company provides nine core service disciplines: Architecture, Assessments, Construction Management, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Program Management, Surveying, and Water services. These services span multiple markets including Commercial, Education, Federal, Hospitality, Industrial, Institutional, Residential Development, State & Local Government, and Transportation. The firm serves markets across nearly every discipline and project phase, from initial design through construction completion, offering both individual services and integrated multidisciplinary project delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Site Design

Named customers17 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Broad incumbents

• Tetra Tech: Large national AE firm with water, transportation, and site development practices; competes for Phoenix public infrastructure and developer-led work where Gavan & Barker also operates.
• Huitt-Zollars: Larger multi-discipline AE design firm (architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, planning) with national reach; broader service portfolio than Gavan & Barker but overlapping on civil/site and landscape work.
• NV5 Global: National infrastructure, environmental, and geospatial services firm with site/civil and surveying capabilities overlapping Gavan & Barker's core offerings.
• Stantec: Global AE consultancy with a substantial Phoenix presence; broader portfolio but competes in site/civil, transportation, drainage, and landscape services.

Direct peers

• Wilson Engineers: Arizona-based civil engineering firm with site development, water, and transportation capabilities; comparable small-to-mid boutique competing for similar municipal and developer engagements.
• Bowman Consulting Group: National civil engineering and landscape architecture firm with significant Phoenix-area presence; offers the same site/civil/roadway/drainage services and is a direct competitive peer for mid-size projects.
• EPS Group: Arizona-based multi-discipline engineering firm with strong site/civil, transportation, and drainage practices; competes head-to-head for the same Phoenix public works and developer work.
• Kimley-Horn: Major national AE consultancy with a large Phoenix office providing site/civil, transportation, and landscape architecture services; competes for the same developer and municipal clients.
• Wood, Patel & Associates: Phoenix-based civil engineering and surveying firm serving the same public and private land development clients in Arizona, directly comparable in size and service scope.
• Dibble & Associates (Dibble Engineering): Phoenix-headquartered civil engineering firm offering site development, transportation, drainage, and water services — closely overlapping with Gavan & Barker's site, roadway, and drainage design mix in the same metro.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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