Civil Engineering

Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc. was founded with one Engineer, Mr. Warren S. Craven, P.E., as a Partner.  He provided quality service based on his knowledge of local regulatory requirements and of sensitive environmental factors, from his background as Assistant City Engineer for the City of Fort Lauderdale .  Building over the years on the same fundamental quality professional service, the firm has expanded to a large group of Professional Engineers, graduate Engineers, Surveyors, Biologists, Designers and Draftspersons.

The activities of the company over the past 40 years originated in the area of land development and gradually evolved to include transportation, land planning, utility construction and building construction.  It can best be exemplified by the development within the City of Tamarac , for which the firm provided the engineering services to the Behring Corporation/Leadership Housing, Inc.  In 11 years, 5,500 acres of Florida cattle land were transformed into a community of 40,000 residents.  Major projects soon followed, comprising drainage systems of canals, roads, sewers, water systems, sewer plants and the site development for major subdivisions.  The subdivisions include the 17 section Mainland's Development with Sabal Palm and Mainland’s Executive 18-hole golf courses; followed by Woodmont Country Club Community, a single-family development with two championship golf courses.  Then, Woodland Villas; Woodland Villas addition, Vangard Village , Heathgate; Sunflower I and II all followed.  Included also are commercial and industrial sectors at Lyons Industrial Park and Tamarac Industrial Center .

The Tamarac story was repeated in a number of other developments.  The Broward County Convention Center, Sawgrass Mills Mall, Chapel Trail, and Office Depot Center are recent projects in Broward County, and CityPlace in West Palm Beach which are major developments requiring the full services of the company.  The Broward County Neighborhood Improvement Projects are redevelopment projects for Broward County , which requires the replacement or addition of all infrastructure for over 6,000 acres.  This project requires detailed coordination, project management and design as provided by CTA.

The firm is involved in major highway planning and the design of roads and bridges.  The skills and know-how of the firm resulted in hundreds of miles of highways and a number of bridges over canals and rivers.  These work efforts required the addition of a transportation engineering department, which has designed a multitude of multi-lane highways and six and eight-lane bridges.

We offer a wide range of Civil and Structural Engineering capabilities that we coordinate with our Planners, Surveyors and Landscape Architects, to provide a total capability, from site evaluation to a completed project.  We take pride in our ability as "Problem Solvers".