30 Years of Growth Leads to Further Expansion

The Kleingers Group announced that it has opened a Tampa/St. Pete, Florida office serving clients throughout West Central Florida. Recently joining forces with Leftcoast Surveyors, Inc., of St. Pete, the new Kleingers office will provide the full array of Kleingers’ integrated survey, engineering, and design services. Along with its TrueScan 3D laser scanning and reality capture division, this marks The Kleingers Group’s second Florida location.

Mike Guiler, owner of Leftcoast Surveyors, said of the opportunity, “I was looking for another company that shared our firm’s core values and work ethic, and once I started researching, The Kleingers Group became the ONLY choice. I launched this business over 20 years ago, and we’ve worked really hard and been quite successful, so I needed to be absolutely confident in who we joined.”

Leftcoast Surveyors, Inc. is a construction surveying company founded in 2000 out of St. Pete, Florida, with one location. Its teams of professional surveyors have the expertise and technology to handle their clients’ most challenging projects. Leftcoast teams are dedicated to accurate, timely, and cost-effective survey solutions. Providing boundary surveys, topographical mapping, construction staking and more, Leftcoast Surveyors pride themselves in client commitment and satisfaction, ensuring that each project’s unique needs and goals are met.

Unique, Integrated Projects Are Kleingers’ Specialty

Tim Casto, CEO of The Kleingers Group agrees, “This is an excellent opportunity for both The Kleingers Group and Leftcoast Surveyors. From the first time we spoke, it was apparent that Mike’s firm was a great fit for The Kleingers Group in both expertise and core values. With the Tampa/St. Pete market being so dynamic, we couldn’t be happier to welcome to Leftcoast Surveyors to the Kleingers family.”

About The Kleingers Group
The Kleingers Group is a premier civil engineering firm, providing a comprehensive and integrated range of land survey, civil engineering, transportation engineering, landscape architecture, 3D laser scan/reality capture, and sports facility design expertise. Our team of experts offer practical and time-tested solutions for various public and private clients, including institutional, corporate, government, healthcare, retail, and mixed-use markets. Diverse in expertise and geography, Kleingers’ teams apply their creativity and functionality to help build better communities. Founded in 1993, The Kleingers Group established core values resulting in a unique culture of integrity, respect, inclusion, diversity, growth, and fun. With nearly 200 employees in six Midwest and Southeastern U.S. office locations, Kleingers continues to grow through our renowned commitment to our clients’ and employees ongoing success. The Kleingers Group also proudly includes its divisions TrueScan3D.com and SportworksDesign.com.  To see more about Leftcoast Surveyors, see leftcoastsurveyors.com.

30 Years of Growth Leads to Expansion

The Kleingers Group announced today that it has opened its first Northeastern Ohio office in Akron. Serving the Akron, Canton, and Cleveland Markets, the new location, Kleingers’ sixth, will offer an expansive array of integrated survey, engineering, and design services. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary Year in 2023 and a record 30% growth has led to two strategic new market entries and a move into significantly larger offices in its Columbus location.

Tim Casto, CEO of The Kleingers Group, says, “Northeastern Ohio has been part of our strategy for a while. When the opportunity presented itself, we were ready and made it happen. Some of our clients have offices throughout Ohio, and to provide their projects with the best service possible, our new Akron location made perfect sense. We’re thrilled to be part of the Akron community.”

Complex, Integrated Projects Are Kleingers’ Specialty

As recently as Mid-March, 2023, ODOT projected and summarized over $1.5 billion in NE Ohio road projects alone.  Complex infrastructure, municipal, and commercial multi-use projects are a specialty of The Kleingers Group, where its uniquely integrated teams and state-of-the-art technology combine to make an ideal solution for architects, owners, and developers.

Nick McCullough, Market Leader, adds, “Akron and Northeast Ohio are dynamic construction markets, and The Kleingers Group’s comprehensive expertise and integrated services in civil engineering, survey, 3D laser/reality capture, landscape design, and more are ideal for the complex, ambitious projects planned for this region. The future here is bright, and we’re glad to be part of that.”

About The Kleingers Group
The Kleingers Group is a premier civil engineering firm, providing a comprehensive and integrated range of land survey, civil engineering, transportation engineering, landscape architecture, 3D laser scan/reality capture, and sports facility design expertise. Our team of experts offer practical and time-tested solutions for various public and private clients, including institutional, corporate, government, healthcare, retail, and mixed-use markets. Diverse in expertise and geography, Kleingers’ teams apply their creativity and functionality to help build better communities. Founded in 1993, The Kleingers Group established core values resulting in a unique culture of integrity, respect, inclusion, diversity, growth, and fun. With nearly 200 employees in six Midwest and Southeastern U.S. office locations, Kleingers continues to grow through our renowned commitment to our clients’ and employees ongoing success. The Kleingers Group family includes its divisions TrueScan3D.com and SportworksDesign.com.

Happy Engineers Week! We spent the week reflecting on what makes a good engineer, what brought our employees to this career, how they share their passion for this kind of work and what it means to others when we do what we do. As we wrap up this week’s Engineers Week, we asked our team a few questions that we hope you find entertaining and insightful!

How do you explain civil engineering to people who don’t know?

I often present to young students on career day at various schools, and I typically keep it simple and start with “civil engineers design roads and bridges.”   If it’s a little older crowd, I often delve into what we do with site engineering and explain that civil engineers design everything on a building site outside of the building, including driveways, parking lots, sewers, waterlines, drainage and grading. If I was cool, I’d say civil engineers take a vision of a site and turn it into reality. – Steve

Everyone seems to know what an architect is, so I tend to describe a Civil Engineer as “The Architect of the Land.” We generally focus on things outside of the building, shaping the land and providing the infrastructure needed to support the buildings that architects design. – Melissa

Someone else just explained to me today the three things you need to know to be a civil engineer…

1. You can’t push a rope.

2. Water and dirt make mud.

3. $#!t (er, um, water) flows downhill.

Good advice for anyone. – Craig

When I try to describe it, and their head turns a funny angle, I fall back to:  Essentially, it’s a 5 year degree in ditch digging. – Tim

Tell us about a moment where you thought to yourself “I love what I do.” What made you think that?

I love being able to see a project come to life. To step onto a job site and see your engineering design set in motion is a really cool feeling. – Melissa

Every time that I’m involved with the planning and design of a new project, and I get to see the progression from concept, to planning, to detailed design, to and through construction…. and I get to see the final product with the end user using and enjoying the space…..I take a lot of pride.  We engineers like to be creative in our problem solving, and therefore I’m stoked any time I can use creativity to solve a unique problem in an effective and efficient manner.  – Steve

What’s the biggest misconception about engineers?

The biggest misconception about engineers is that we are all nerds!!! That is 100% false… we are all “cool nerds”!!! – Melissa

The biggest misconception about engineers is that they have no personality.  Engineers are taught to think analytically and determine the best possible outcome based on the facts.  By nature, they are conservative and have low risk tolerance.  Most engineers are quick witted, loyal and fun to be around. – Nick

That there isn’t any creativity in what we design. We often find ways to be creative when appropriate, but when it comes to designing for roadways where lives are at stake, it’s important to rely on tested design methods and know what you are doing. – Dave

That they are this odd lot of extroverts who favor form over function and have a deep seeded passion for the creative arts.  I guess people just can’t see how it is that we are actually much more into numbers, logic and have horrible tastes in fashion, style and aren’t really that good of communicators and we don’t really excel at grammar and we tend to make run-on sentences. – Greg

Who is the coolest engineer you’ve ever met?

Jim Kleingers, of course!!! – Everyone

All engineers are geeks, so from the perspective of the outside world I haven’t met any “cool” ones.  However, any engineer that can speak well in public is generally viewed by other engineers as the coolest person on the planet.

– Dave

Wow, that’s a tough one.   Isn’t “cool engineer” an oxymoron?  – Steve

What skills are most important to be a good engineer?

A good engineer has a great aptitude for math and science.  He/she understands how things work and is able to explain that to others. – Nick

Of course math skills are a must, but being able to look at one problem and provide multiple solutions is what makes a great engineer. – Melissa

Ability to focus, computer skills, and logic.  Certain types of math are important too, like geometry. – Dave

Listening and understanding the needs of a project and its owner and end users, and being able to translate this into helping the vision become a reality. – Steve

To be ‘engineereeyee’. – Tim

The Kleingers Group recently created plans for the first underground utility connection installed under the new Cincinnati Streetcar while the overhead lines are energized.

Specifically, the Water Service Branch Plan created by Kleingers identifies the routing of a new water service line and the location of the bore pits required to tunnel under the streetcar line.

Like most projects in an urban setting, the routing of the new waterline had to be configured in a tight space while avoiding a number of existing utilities, all at various depths. The location of the bore pits also had to be chosen carefully to work around a large number of existing utilities.

The new water line, installed by Greater Cincinnati Water Works, will service a building currently under renovation by 3CDC.

Plans submitted to Greater Cincinnati Water Works were approved the same day, allowing work to begin quickly.

The project is expected to be the first of many to come that will require extra care to work around the tracks for the Cincinnati Streetcar.