Established CT Survey & Civil Engineering Firm, 100-Year New Haven County Practice

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This is a Connecticut land surveying and civil engineering firm that has operated for over a century, serving residential, commercial, institutional, and municipal clients across the state from two offices in New Haven County. The service menu is broad and technical: boundary and topographic surveys, subdivision and site design, septic and stormwater design, permitting support, and newer high-margin lines in 3D laser scanning and FAA-licensed drone based aerial survey work. The team of eleven includes three licensed surveyors and a licensed professional engineer, several of whom have a decade or more of tenure, which matters in a field where the license is the gate to doing the work at all.

The standout asset here is not the equipment or the vehicles, it is the historical records archive built up over nearly 100 years, valued at roughly $400,000. That archive drives a steady stream of repeat, high-margin work because prior survey records get pulled again and again for adjacent parcels, subdivisions, and re-surveys, and a competitor simply cannot replicate a century of accumulated data. On $2.176M of revenue and $795k of cash flow, the business runs at a 37 percent SDE margin, which is strong for a services firm and reflects both the archive advantage and the licensed, capacity-constrained nature of the work.