Multidisciplinary civil engineering and design firm for infrastructure and community planning
RaganSmith (now operating under parent Pape-Dawson following a 2024 integration) is a civil engineering and design consultancy built on surveying, land planning, and transportation infrastructure work. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward CAD and design tools—MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, SketchUp, Lumion—with reality-capture capabilities via LiDAR and Trimble, reflecting a firm that moves between field survey work and design-phase visualization. Active hiring remains sparse (no posts in 30 days), with seniority concentrated at senior and lead levels, suggesting a capacity-constrained model where profitability and staff utilization are structural challenges rather than growth-phase problems.
RaganSmith is a full-service civil engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture firm based in Nashville with offices in Chattanooga and Murfreesboro. The firm traces its roots to 1933 as a land surveying operation and has expanded into multidisciplinary consulting covering civil engineering, transportation planning, landscape architecture, and construction inspection. Current project work spans master-planned communities, urban streetscape redevelopment, and green infrastructure. The firm operates with approximately 175 employees across its three offices and serves clients in Tennessee and nationally. In 2024, RaganSmith was acquired and integrated into Pape-Dawson, a larger national consulting group, which the company describes as broadening its resource base and service capabilities.
The firm uses AutoCAD Civil 3D, MicroStation, and OpenRoads for primary design and modeling work, supplemented by SketchUp and Lumion for visualization, and Trimble Business Center for survey data management.
RaganSmith is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Chattanooga and Murfreesboro. The firm employs approximately 175 staff across the three locations.
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