Richard Callahan Quotations

We've got a major investment in our electronics. With all the changes there, the increasing sophistication of the electronics, the hardware and software, it's tough to keep up. We need to stay state-of-the-art.

From a practical point of view, you need to be locally present to understand local circumstances, county commissions, city commissions, things like that.

Our clients are looking at the gamut of planning issues, engineering issues, surveying, environmental planning and landscape architecture. We bill ourselves as a full-service consulting company.

Our goal is not to be a really large company. We have expanded drastically the past couple of years, but it's not out of a desire to be really large but to broaden our market.

Right now, our customers are about 50 percent public sector and 50 percent private sector.

We get inquiries for specific disciplines. We're frequently brought in by law firms, and for them we look at specific questions for land-use change, zoning issues and environmental issues. Generally, though, we try to bring in all the disciplines and try to evaluate a project from all perspectives.