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Garrett Meagher joined River City Consultants in January as a Design Engineer. He grew up in a small town in Northwest Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering and Geology. After graduation, Garrett took a job offer with a civil engineering consulting firm in Eau Claire, WI which he had been interning with over the past two summers. There he gained experience in construction inspection, site design, grading, and erosion control design. Later he moved to Delaware where he worked on projects of varying sizes from large mixed-use developments to small commercial and residential site design. There he also gained experience in stormwater management and design. Garrett along with his wife and dog, are excited to be living,…
Brandon Martinez joined the surveying team at River City Consultants as a Land Survey Intern (LSI). He grew up in northern California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Geography. After a few years of odd jobs, he began his career in surveying as an apprentice through Operator Engineers Local 3. He worked on prestigious projects such as Apple Park and the Marin General Hospital, learning how to be accurate and precise in high-pressure environments. After two and a half years of commuting in the Bay Area, he decided to move to Denver to be closer to the mountains and outdoor recreation. He was the primary surveyor at a very small operation before becoming a field coordinator at a much larger…
RCC is excited to expand our scope of services with the addition of Ivan Geer, PE Mr. Geer has over 20 years of experience in engineering consulting, construction materials, and operations management. His project portfolio as a consultant includes wastewater, hydrology, storm water, water resources, environmental compliance, and project/construction management. Mr. Geer worked in the aggregates, ready mix, concrete pipe, precast, and pipeline industries in many roles from engineering to project management. More recently in operations management, he was responsible for all facets of aggregate mining and production from inception, lease negotiation, planning, permitting, budgets, schedules, production, estimating, safety, and reclamation. This broad experience has encompassed permitting with multiple local, state, and federal agencies in western Colorado.
Partnering with Cartographic Edge Inc., RCC recently completed a survey for upcoming improvements at the Grand Junction Regional Airport for Armstrong Consultants. Armstrong is the lead consulting engineer for upcoming improvements, and contracted RCC to develop an accurate topographic map of the project area. RCC established a network of ground control which CEI used to combine aerial imagery and LIDAR mapping to develop a high accuracy base map from over 3,000,000 data points. Expanding our local airport is an important economic development project, we are excited to be part of the design team! Stay up-to-date with our latest news and announcements. Learn about our industry advancements, new projects, and the goings-on of our group here at River City Consultants, a full service firm providing civil engineering,…
One of our owners, Ivan Geer, recently started a 5 year term serving on the Grand Junction Housing Authority board. The Grand Junction Housing Authority is a top notch organization with decades of experience providing sustainable housing solutions to meet the needs of a variety of constituents groups in our community. Through the efforts of Executive Director Jody Kole and her staff, our local housing authority is competitive at obtaining funding for land development and construction projects. As a result, residents of Mesa County receive both the housing assistance and the economic benefits of employing architects, civil engineers, surveyors, and construction professionals. Mr. Geer looks forward to volunteering for the housing authority as his six year term serving the Twenty-First Judicial Nominating Commission for Mesa County, Colorado, comes to close at the end of 2017.