Ferber Engineering
Company, Inc. was started by Dan Ferber, PE/LS, in
1991 with one full-time and one part-time employee.
Over the next eight years Ferber Engineering
increased in size to six full-time employees and
expanded its clientele and project capacity. In
1999, the company was completing Urban Systems
Transportation Projects, Large Drainage and Flood
Control Projects and Small Municipal Utility System
Projects.
In 2005, Dave Muck,
PE/LS, CFM, and John Van Beek, PE, became partners
with Dan. That same year Ferber Engineering Company
had 10 full-time employees, including the owners and
had expanded their services to include Land
Surveying, Geographic Information Systems, Wetlands
Delineation and Mitigation, and Land Use Planning.
In 2006, Ferber
Engineering Company, as a subconsultant to Burns &
McDonnell, completed the inventory of 6,000 Sanitary
Sewer Manholes in Rapid City, The inventory included
GPS location of all City manholes to 0.1 Feet +/-,
invert measurements and an overall manhole
assessment. All information was collected and
manipulated using Trimble survey and mapping grade
survey equipment, and uploaded into the City of
Rapid City’s Utility System Geodatabase. This
project required Ferber Engineering to add seven
seasonal employees to complement their twelve full
time employees.
Currently Ferber
Engineering Company, Inc. has 15 full time employees
with four Registered Professional Engineers, two of
whom are Registered Land Surveyors, and one is also
a Certified Floodplain Manager. The company also
employs a Geographic Information Systems
Professional, three Graduate Engineers, two Senior
Construction Technicians, two Technicians, two
drafters, and an
Office Manager. Ferber Engineering’s projects range
in size from small site developments to large road
design/utilities/drainage projects. Design projects
include Urban Systems, Utility, and Drainage Design.
The company has also implemented GIS Designs,
completed Mine Permitting, and other Environmental
Permitting projects.
