Pape-Dawson Engineers

Pape-Dawson is a civil engineering and professional services firm founded in San Antonio in 1965. Its staff includes engineers, surveyors, planners, landscape architects, environmental scientists, archaeologists, data analysts and construction management professionals working on development and infrastructure projects together.

Land development is the core practice. The firm says its teams plat nearly 20,000 single-family lots and thousands of acres of commercial land each year for commercial, residential, educational, institutional, industrial and multifamily projects, for both public and private clients. That work runs from site selection analysis, preliminary engineering reports, feasibility and traffic impact studies through drainage analysis and design, stormwater management, infrastructure design, subdivision platting and development permitting.

Other practices include transportation engineering (construction engineering inspection, intelligent transportation systems, innovative intersections, signalization and signal timing, highway and freeway design, ADA transition planning and traffic studies); water and wastewater, where the firm says it has designed and delivered more than 5 million linear feet of pipe in the past ten years across collection, treatment, supply and distribution; surveying and geospatial work with GIS; environmental services; landscape architecture; structural engineering; aviation planning and design; energy; and broadband and utility network design.

The firm opened its Austin office in 2004, expanded to Houston in 2009, added Fort Worth and Dallas in 2014, and by 2020 had grown to more than 1,000 employees across Texas. It established a Florida presence in 2023 and has since added Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, Kansas and Kentucky through acquisitions. Fees are project-based and not published.