INFORMATION REFERENCE

COMPANY HISTORY

Gustin, Cothern & Tucker Inc., (GCT) has roots dating back over 75 years. Originally, GCT was a branch office of Bethel W. Whitson Company, which was established in Birmingham Alabama in 1921, and was one of the pioneer surveying companies in that area. GCT began operation in 1982 in Valparaiso, Florida. Valparaiso is located on the North shore of Choctawhatchee Bay, between Panama City and Pensacola, Florida on the panhandle of Northwest Florida. GCT's office is also only three miles from the East gate of Eglin Air Force Base, one of the largest air force bases in the world. 

The branch office of GCT experienced tremendous growth between 1982 and 1987. In December of 1987, John C. Gustin III, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bethel W. Whitson Company made the decision to reorganized the two companies as Gustin, Cothern & Tucker, Inc.; a Florida Corporation, providing surveying and civil engineering services to the government and private sectors. By 1990 GCT had outgrown it's office in Valparaiso and began construction of a new 7800 square foot office building three miles to the east in the neighboring city of Niceville, Florida. 

Today GCT is the largest full service engineering firm of its kind in Northwest Florida, specializing in services such as hydrographic surveying using multi-beam and other state of the art equipment, Photogrammetric control, construction stake-out with Real-time Kinematic (RTK) GPS, and residential and commercial civil engineering.  Integrity, experience and innovation has earned GCT the respect of clients, community, and contemporaries. Eighty years of service, from three generations of surveyors, make surveying a tradition at GCT.


PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Gustin, Cothern & Tucker, Inc. is a Surveying and Engineering firm with 40 employees. GCT's office in Niceville is a 7800 sf building. The firm is comprised of:

24 field survey personnel.
5 administrative personnel.
2 E.I.T.'s Engineering Project Managers.
2 Civil Engineers/Surveyors
4 Surveying/Engineering CADD Techs.
3 Surveyors/Project Managers/Supervisors


GCT's staff includes; (6) Registered Land Surveyors, licensed in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, with consultants in Georgia, Kentucky and Colorado, and (2) Civil Engineers, licensed in Florida and Alabama.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM

A management team is assigned to each project. This team will oversee each aspects of a project, field surveying, design, delivery and coordination with appropriate agencies. Our personnel are experienced in many different types and sizes of specialized surveying and engineering tasks. This experience will help to expedite each project assignment.

SURVEY EQUIPMENT
GCT's survey equipment includes:

   (8) 4WD suburbans and (3) 4WD GMC Tahoes
   (6) Trimble Navigation GPS receivers - (3) 4400 GPS
               Total Stations and (3) 4000SE Receivers.
   (7) Total Stations and (5) Data Collectors.
(16) Cellular telephones and (22) motorola radios.
(16) computer workstations and (3) DesignJet plotters.
   (3) DGPS and (1) RANGE AZIMUTH Hydrographic System.
   (1) 24' and (2) 18' survey vessels, fully equipped, w/cabins.


ENGINEERING/SURVEY SOFTWARE
Software includes:

Bentley MicroStation PC w/ EDS Eagle Point.
  AutoCad Release 14 w/Softdesk S8 Civil/Survey
  Haestead Methods Cybernet for Windows
  HYPACK / HYSWEEP Hydrographic surveying software.
  PacSoft-Design Master/Map Master.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

GCT has 20 years experience in Hydrographic Surveying (12 years with automated systems). Our firm has owned GPS Receivers and performed GPS services since 1990. Our CADD technicians use AutoCAD w/Softdesk S8 and Bentley MicroStation w/ Eagle Point Software to produce digital terrain models and drawing files. Pre and post dredging surveys, volumes and quantities have been a regular part of our past Corps contract workload. GCT survey personnel include party chiefs and instrument persons trained in the use of hydrographic systems, GPS equipment, total stations w/data collectors and computer interfaces. Our firm has successfully completed Hydrographic projects all over the Southeast, including Kentucky and as far away as Minot, ND. Our firms location affords quick and cost effective mobilization anywhere in the Southeastern United States.
 

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Last Revised:  February 14, 2003 08:03:12 AM