About Us
Ronald T. Jepson and Associates (Jepson) has been providing land surveying and civil engineering services throughout Western Washington since 1968. Meeting surveying and engineering challenges in a practical and efficient manner has been the mission since the inception of the firm. We are a full service consulting firm with a team of highly trained, experienced professional land surveyors and civil engineers.
Our projects have included a wide variety of surveys such as: topographic, boundary, horizontal, vertical, hydrographic, and construction surveys. Using state-of-the-art total stations, GPS receivers, data collectors and network systems, we are able to provide seamless data transmission from collection to the finished product. The net result for the client is speed, accuracy and economy. In addition to the array of surveying services we can provide, our civil engineering staff is efficient at handling client needs from preliminary project planning through construction management. We have provided a wide variety of plans and designs such as comprehensive plan development, binding site plans, major commercial developments, road and stormwater design, water and sanitary sewer design, residential plats, and U.L.I.D.s for municipalities and clients throughout Western Washington
The combined surveying and engineering experience of Jepson’s personnel is a unique and valuable resource. This background provides us with comprehensive and historic knowledge of surveying and engineering challenges with solutions specific to the region and our clients. Jepson understands that our most valuable resource is our company team, which has grown to 18 employees over the last 40 years by selectively gathering a highly qualified team of experienced, dedicated, and community-oriented professionals, technicians, and support staff.
Our professional survey staff includes two professional land surveyors, a land surveyor in-training, a project surveyor with over 30 years of surveying experience, two survey technicians, and two full-service survey crews. The newest member to our team, a professional land surveyor and professional engineer, brings twenty years of GPS experience to the survey department and is a great resource for the whole office. The Jepson team also includes four registered professional engineers (licensed in Washington, California, and Alaska) and two excellent engineers-in-training who are eligible for the April 2009 Professional Engineer’s exam. We have three experienced engineering technicians and a CAD operator who are adept in engineering support and construction document preparation. Last year, we were lucky to have our first certified planner join the Jepson team. She is currently on maternity leave, but still finds time to provide intermittent project and GIS services support.
Our equipment resources include a multitude of high performance computers including an office intranet and client FTP site supported by a Windows NT networked server system with three separate back-up systems. We have three field laptops and multiple hand-held GPS receivers that allow our staff to walk onto any job-site with full data support. We utilize the latest AutoCAD and Land Development Desktop, ArcGIS 9.2, WWHM3 Pro, WaterCAD, SewerCAD and Hec-Ras 4.0 software applications. We recently purchased RDV Systems 3D Visualization software, which is fully integrated with Land Development Desktop allowing us to model and render our projects in three dimensions. These visualizations are specifically for client and marketing presentations. In addition, the Jepson office includes a color HP 1050C Designjet Printer (36” wide photo quality plotter) and a new KIP3000 full plan size printer, copier, and scanner.
Our field equipment is state-of-the-art and kept in an orderly, maintained condition. We recently acquired Topcon’s newest GR-3 dual receiver, survey-grade GPS system. This gives us RTK and static GPS capabilities. These capabilities seamlessly integrate with our two Nikon total stations and one Topcon fully robotic total station. Our survey crews utilize this equipment and our three fully outfitted survey vehicles to perform survey work throughout Whatcom, Skagit, Island and Snohomish Counties
The principals and managers of the firm maintain primary responsibility and are technically involved in each step of project development, helping to assure practical, cost-effective solutions are developed for the benefit of our clients. We understand the importance of frequent communication with our clients and other design consultants, enabling us to accommodate changes in the design concepts and to identify possible constraints and/or alternatives to keep design efforts moving in a forward direction.