Kier + Wright is a civil engineering and land surveying firm that Dick Kier and Jim Wright started in 1972 out of a machine shop in Santa Clara, Calif. It’s now headquartered in Livermore and runs offices in Santa Clara, Gilroy, Manteca, Sacramento, Irvine, Escondido and Austin, Texas. The firm does site civil design, roadway work and boundary, topographic and construction surveying for commercial, residential, retail and tech campus clients, and its field survey crews have long logged some of the most hours in the region. Kier + Wright turned up this week as a customer of Mach9, the AI CAD startup that raised a $34 million Series A, using its software on pedestrian safety work around San Francisco schools.
Eight staffed offices show up on Kier + Wright’s contact page, and then a second list under them: hybrid locations in Fayetteville and Pryor, Boise, Middleton, Meridian and Coeur d’Alene, Greenwood Village, Honolulu, Waverly, Ypsilanti, Gardnerville, Portland, Mt. Juliet, Cedar Park and Conroe, Spokane and Valleyford. For a firm whose staffed offices are all in California except Austin, that spread of remote staff across more than a dozen states is the more telling detail. It reads like work that followed clients out of the Bay Area rather than a branch-office expansion plan.
The service taxonomy splits cleanly in two. On the engineering side: 3D modeling, construction administration, planning, renewable engineering, site development, street and roadway, sustainability, utility design and water resources. On the survey side: 3D scanning, ALTA land title survey, construction staking, mapping and topographic survey. The firm describes the combined offering as supporting commercial, industrial and high-density residential development and redevelopment, which is a narrower self-description than general land development and a useful filter when matching a civil consultant to a project type.
Two of those lines are newer territory for a firm founded in the early 1970s. Renewable engineering is a named discipline, and the company’s own pages reference renewable energy and data center work alongside downtown San Jose projects. 3D scanning and 3D modeling are listed as services in their own right rather than as back-office technique.
Construction administration is worth separating out from design. It is a listed service, which means the office that drew the grading and utility plans can stay on through construction staking and field questions. On redevelopment sites, where as-built conditions and the plan set tend to disagree, that continuity is the practical argument for using one firm across design and survey.
Addresses, for anyone assembling a bid list: Livermore at 2850 Collier Canyon Road, Santa Clara at 3350 Scott Boulevard, Gilroy at 9015 Murray Avenue, Manteca at 250 Cherry Lane, Sacramento at 10395 Old Placerville Road, Irvine at 8955 Research Drive, Escondido at 500 La Terraza Boulevard, and Austin at 9430 Research Boulevard. Each carries its own direct line rather than routing through Livermore.
One caveat on the website itself. Several of the counters that should report staff size, states licensed, office count and LEED certifications render as zero on the home, about and careers pages, so the firm’s own published figures on scale are not currently readable. The 2026 SMPS Marketing Communications Awards are the only recognition named on the site.
