Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
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Does anyone know where to find information about how much average revenue (percentage) a geotechnical group brings into a civil engineering company?





RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
You can start by envisioning a typical geotechnical site investigation collect all the component costs from Means and then apply the necessary overhead and profit for your area.
That should get you in the ballpark. Don't forget that part of the revenue coming in is winning the work.
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RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
Another dimension to this is the extent to which the civil engineering firm wants to add construction and materials testing to the mix of work. The potential profitability of this service area is largely related to the type of civil engineering that's being done by the company. If it's mostly residential subdivisions, there may not be a huge geotechnical market for earthwork testing (I'm not saying non-existant, just not huge) compared to a company taht does civil engineering for industrial development.
I manage a small geotechnical department within a multi-dicipline engineering firm. These are some of my struggles. For me, my geology and environmental background is a plus as I also manage ESA, UST and wetland projects.
Not sure I helped, I just had a few comments.
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RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
Uhh, not here in SoCal. The revenue for the geotech firm on a single large residential subdivision project, complete with large cut and fills, retaining wall backfill, utility trench backfills, etc., commonly runs into the millions! This is the bread and butter work for several of the larger geotech firms in the area.
RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
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RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
Thanks for the comments. The major point we are trying to get at, with some data on revenue to back it up, is that having a larger geotechnical group will benefit the company as a whole.
I know exactly what you are saying with the in-house work though - it seems like a lot, if not most of our projects come from our own offices.
RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
If the people running your company do not see growth of the non-geotech part of the company as being good for revenue, then you will get this point accross. If they do, it should be obvious even without showing numbers.
The fact is, if you want to increase revenue, grow to as large as the market will allow. This lets you do more work, and thus, more revenue. Of course to be proffitable, keep the growth rate in check, as well as the size vs. work load.
RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue
Being a civil and doing geotechnical engineering means that you would have to market your competitors to get the geotechnical work. I'm sure they will limit what you get.
Being a civil and doing material testing, maybe. But again your competitor will not like to give you access to their clients.
We provide geotechnical only. We don't try compete with our clients. We work to give aid to our clients to help them win work. We provide intel and will go in the field and collect preliminary field data at no cost to help our civil get the best chance to win the work. Help build the client and he will help you. This works for us.
We have more than 8+ Mil in projects on our books. I've seen totals of more than 75K feet of drilling waiting to be started. As far as breakdown - of the 8 Mil, 60% of that is field work and drilling. The 40% is lab and engineering. The margins that I've seen 30 to 40%.
Hope this offers some insight.
RE: Geotechnical Engineering Contribution to Revenue