Mission Statement

Pro17 Engineering, LLC is in business to offer professional engineering and land surveying services to the general public, developers, government agencies, and contractors. At times we also act as a consultant and subcontractor to other engineering, land surveying, and aerial mapping firms. We want to provide timely completion of all projects in order to meet the clients’ schedule, as well as to represent our profession in an ethical and honest fashion.

Profile

Pro17 Engineering, LLC operates as a Limited Liability Company of the State of Alabama. The company was organized on March 1, 2009 by J. Keith Maxwell, its sole owner and manager. Pro17 Engineering follows up on the initial foundation of Maxwell Engineering & Land Surveying, Inc. which was formed on January 18th, 1993 by J. Keith and Stephanie S. Maxwell. The company headquarters is located in Auburn, Alabama. The companies have been operating in Auburn since November 15th, 1993 and before that in Montgomery, Alabama. Prior to incorporation, from June 16th, 1989, the firm operated as a sole proprietorship under the name J. Keith Maxwell Engineering & Land Surveying. Throughout this period the company was based in Montgomery, Alabama.

What Is Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering is the broadest of the engineering fields. It deals with the creation, improvement, and protection of the communal environment, providing facilities for living, industry and transportation, including large buildings, roads, bridges, canals, railroad lines, airports, water-supply systems, dams, irrigation, harbors, docks, aqueducts, tunnels, and other engineered constructions. The civil engineer must have a knowledge of the properties and mechanics of construction materials, the mechanics of structures and soils, and of hydraulics and fluid mechanics. There are many different fields under civil engineering; construction engineering, construction management, transportation engineering, soils and foundation engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic engineering, and environmental engineering, to name a few.

What Is Land Surveying

Surveying has traditionally been defined as the science, art, and technology of determining the relative positions of points above, on, or beneath the earth’s surface, or of establishing such points. In a more general sense, however, surveying can be regarded as that discipline which encompasses all methods for measuring, processing, and disseminating information about the physical earth and our environment. Surveying has been important since the beginning of civilization. Its earliest applications were in measuring and marking boundaries of property ownership, referred to as land surveying today. This continues today with the addition of construction surveying, route surveying, geodetic surveying, etc.