LTSI is not an engineering firm. We are a technical services company that offers many of the same type of services that engineering firms provide without the high overhead and additional costs. We can outsource professional engineering services under our management upon request as we have done for other entities. We have worked in concert with all types of engineering and professional surveying firms to help support the electric utility industry. We have produced numerous sets of staking sheets and drawings for construction work plans, line ties and additions, road widening projects, and routine maintenance. Moreover, we have completed the plan and profile development, easement research, preparation and acquisition, and creation and submission of associated permits in conjunction with each project.

We are currently staffed with 50 employees fully capable of providing the professional services that we offer. Our supervisors are Trimble certified GPS technicians. The majority of our employees are cross-trained to do all of the services that we provide. Twelve of our current employees have been instrumental in the development of many GIS and mapping projects for electric cooperatives, municipals, and investor owned utilities. We have several employees proficient in AutoCAD and seven employees that have a combined 200 years of service in the utility industry. We employ former electric utility employees as well as former engineering firm employees.

Yes. We offer support at all levels. LTSI can provide the training and/or assistance needed to get started in the right direction efficiently. We can provide support from the planning stage thru completion of a turn-key product (including training of your employees).

Yes. We can and have built data dictionaries that accommodate the fields and attributes requested including collection of the data and/or compilation of the data for integration into the clients’ respective GIS platform.

Yes. We can complete all TXDOT permit forms for controlled and non-controlled access roads as well as railroad permits, corps of engineer permits, national forest permits, etc., complete with plan and profile drawings that we survey in the field. We presently do many electronically. We have also completed many utility adjustment packages for the many TXDOT right-of-way expansion projects.

No. We charge a flat hourly rate that is all-inclusive. No adders such as mileage, copies, meals, gas, phone calls, etc.