Rowe Engineering & Surveying

Land and Hydrographic Surveyors, Consulting Engineers

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About the firm

Rowe Engineering & Surveying is a Mobile, Alabama-based civil engineering and surveying practice originally founded in 1954. Operating as Zeke-Trice, LLC dba Rowe Engineering & Surveying, it specializes in civil engineering services ranging from small grading and drainage plans to complex hydraulic modeling projects, along with surveying services including land, hydrographic, and aerial surveys. Rowe has served the Gulf Coast, the Southeast, and other parts of the United States for over 65 years.

Established
1954
Team
Micro
Firm type
Civil Engineering · Land Surveying

People

Cecil "Zeke" HudsonOwner

Capabilities

Land Surveying

Rowe Engineering & Surveying offers comprehensive land surveying for residential, commercial, and industrial clients. Service types include:

  • Boundary surveys (lot corners, subdivision, industrial/cadastral, ALTA/NSPS)
  • Topographic surveys (RTK/GPS, contour mapping, location/elevation certification, 1-A certification)
  • Mortgage and as-built surveys
  • Construction stakeout and foundation stakeout
  • Third-party surveys
  • GIS surveys (remote sensing, area delineation, infrastructure inventories, base mapping)

Hydrographic Surveying

Rowe provides hydrographic surveys measuring elevations of land underwater, supporting restoration, dredging, and channel management projects. Methods include:

  • Single-beam and multi-beam surveys
  • Side-scan sonar
  • Bottom/channel condition surveys
  • Dredge monitoring
  • Pipeline location surveys

Engineering Services

Civil engineering services span residential and commercial development, infrastructure, and flood studies. The team prepares civil plans covering site plans, demolition and erosion control, grading and drainage, and utility plans, with expertise in hydraulic modeling.

  • Residential development
  • Commercial development
  • Infrastructure
  • Flood studies and hydraulic modeling

Aerial Mapping

Using drone technology, Rowe performs aerial mapping and data collection for construction monitoring and volumetric analysis. Services include:

  • Aerial photography
  • Topographic surveys via drone
  • Construction progress monitoring
  • Volumetric calculations
  • 3D modeling
  • As-built surveys
  • Vegetation surveys

Industries

Land Development · Residential · Commercial · Infrastructure · Environmental & Remediation · Ports & Harbors · Government

Projects

Coffee Island Restoration Survey

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Project details

Single-beam hydrographic survey of approximately 1.3 miles of shoreline at Coffee Island, Mississippi Sound, as part of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill restoration efforts. Used RTK GPS and a Trimble UX5 Survey Drone for georeferenced photography and subsurface breakwater location.

Lightning Point Restoration Survey

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Project details

Topographic and hydrographic survey of Lightning Point extending approximately 800 feet into the Mississippi Sound, used for engineering design of the Lightning Point Restoration project.

Emergency Pascagoula Channel Opening

Pascagoula, Mississippi

Project details

Post-Hurricane Katrina emergency multi-beam hydrographic survey of 16 miles of the Pascagoula River Ship Channel conducted 24 hours per day, assisting Northrop Grumman in reopening the channel to service their shipyard and restore petroleum supply to the region.