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Dedicated to Serving the Land Development Industry and
State and Local Government

R.A. Smith National is one of Wisconsin’s largest civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, geographic information systems (GIS) and 3D visualization consulting firms.

The company changed its name from R.A. Smith & Associates and its National Survey & Engineering division to R.A. Smith National, effective March 17, 2008.

Established in 1978 by owner and president Richard A. Smith, R.A. Smith National serves state and local government and the land development industry nationwide.

Corporately, we have 243 employees in six offices. Offices are located in Brookfield, Wis., our corporate home; Appleton, Madison and Oshkosh, Wis.; Tarentum (Pittsburgh), Pa.; and our newest office in Glendale (Phoenix), Az.

Design with vision.

Deliver excellence.

Provide the most responsive service to our clients.

Major areas of business focus at R.A. Smith National include:

  • Engineering Design and Planning
  • Land Surveying
  • Technical/Creative Services

Quick Look

Leading Engineering Capabilities

  • Project portfolio throughout the nation
  • Residential through retail site development
  • 200 large format retail, 90 shopping centers, hundreds of subdivisions
  • Sustainable design, LEED® professionals
  • Planning - Comprehensive, Site and Parks
  • Economic Development Studies
  • Landscape Architecture, Irrigation Design
  • Highway Design
  • Traffic Analysis
  • Roundabout Analysis/Design
  • Stormwater Management
  • Municipal Engineering
  • Construction Services/Project Management

Technical and Creative Services

Largest Surveying Firm in Wisconsin

  • Valued resource since 1929
  • More than 500,000 land surveys
  • Innovation in survey technology: Boundless™
  • ALTA, boundary, forensic, topographic, archaeological

 

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Corporate History:

  • 1978, Richard A. Smith founded R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc.

  • 1994, acquired National Survey & Engineering (established in 1929) in order to expand its services to the land development market.

  • 1998, opened branch office in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

  • 1999, broadened service capabilities to include geographic information systems (GIS) and 3D visualization services.

  • 2000, acquired Oshkosh-based Roehlig Land Surveying & Consulting, (established in 1990).

  • 2003, added traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and comprehensive planning services.

  • 2004, added landscape architecture services.
  • 2004, opened office in Pittsburgh (Tarentum), Pennsylvania, through National Survey & Engineering division.

  • 2005, opened office in Appleton, Wisconsin, through National Survey & Engineering division.

  • 2006, acquired R.D. Whitling & Associates survey firm in Murrysville, Pa.

  • 2006, opened office in Madison, Wisconsin, through National Survey & Engineering division.

  • 2006, acquired Community Engineering Consultants, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
  • 2007, opened office in Phoenix (Glendale), Arizona.
  • 2008, changed corporate name to R.A. Smith National.

Copyright R.A. Smith National, Inc., 1997-2008

 

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