1. Evolving With Our Clients and Technology

    03/21/22

    Perspectives

    For the last decade, RETTEW has been providing North America’s largest flat-rolled steel producer with visual structural inspections of its infrastructure, including bridges, overhead cranes, and crane runways. Their plant has been operating since 1847 and employs more than 400 people. RETTEW has also provided topographic mapping and is moving into high-resolution aerial Light Detection…

  2. Innovative Survey Robotic Platform is Improving the Market

    03/19/21

    Company News, Perspectives

    Picture this: A survey technician is attempting to complete a 3D model in a culvert with confined space. With very limited entry and exit points, crawling through this space under normal conditions would be nearly impossible. And now a major rainstorm is headed his way, making this a very unpredictable and dangerous situation. After one…

  3. Traveling to the Job Site – Without the Travel!

    09/11/20

    Perspectives, Projects

    By Ryan Mastowski Project Manager, Land Development Akron-Canton Office RETTEW is constantly using new technology to help solve real-world problems and provide clients with options they never had access to before. With the panoramic photographic (pano) process, RETTEW keeps clients and staff up to date with what’s happening on a jobsite anywhere in the world…

  4. Bridge Survey and Safety

    01/02/19

    Perspectives, Projects

    The next step in a bridge’s transformation is complete, thanks to RETTEW’s Survey and Safety teams. Our Survey group worked hard to establish exact elevation points of each structural steel beam at the Safe Harbor Trestle Bridge, a future part of the Enola Low Grade Rail Trail. The railroad ties on the bridge are slated…

  5. Colorful Lines

    09/10/18

    Projects

    On a college campus in Western PA, it’s not only students who are adding to their knowledge base. RETTEW’s GIS and Subsurface Utility Engineering groups are working together to help locate and map every single underground utility across the campus. Our GIS team began by creating a campus map integrating underground plans. A damage prevention…

  6. Survey Can Do That, Too!

    09/18/17

    Perspectives

    HAZWOPER might not be something you think of when you hear “survey.” RETTEW’s Survey group is highly skilled and experienced – from traditional equipment and methods to new technology and data management. But that’s not all. Sometimes a survey is needed in a hazardous situation. A site could be contaminated by fire, flooding, or hazardous materials….

  7. Reimagining Gets Results

    07/06/17

    Projects

    On a tight timeline, and with some brilliant minds and technology, we recently wrapped up an important client project. In Colorado, one of RETTEW’s energy clients owns many miles of underground pipeline. After a recent incident in the state, the governor ordered inspections of all underground flow lines within 1,000 feet of occupied buildings. To…

  8. Spend Your Days Working Outside

    06/06/17

    Company News, Perspectives

    Are you a recent high school graduate? Are you tired of being asked “What’s next?” If you know college isn’t for you, but aren’t interested in a desk job, RETTEW might have your answer. We’re on the hunt for new survey team members. As a surveyor, you’ll spend most of our time working outdoors, often…

  9. FAA Grants RETTEW Exemption for Drones

    06/02/16

    Company News, Uncategorized

    RETTEW is pleased to announce that the FAA has granted an exemption for the use of the firm’s drone (Unmanned Aircraft System) for surveying and mapping purposes. Though RETTEW has owned a drone for roughly a year, the firm was not authorized to use the system commercially until the FAA granted the exemption. Drones have…

  10. RETTEW's Andrew Benner volunteers for national data technology project

    03/17/14

    Community, Employees

    In conjunction with National Surveyors Week, March 16 through 22, a Snyder County resident is volunteering with the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors (PSLS) to collect geographical data for use in a national database. Andrew Benner, of McClure Borough, a designer with the engineering firm RETTEW, recently took his survey equipment out to locations throughout…

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To Inspire and Empower

One of RETTEW’s Project Managers, Melissa Kelly, is participating as a mentor in the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce…

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