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Meeting Sponsor: Pape Dawson

Since our founding in 1965, Pape-Dawson has provided civil engineering, environmental, and surveying services for thousands of development and critical infrastructure projects. With more than five decades of experience, cutting edge technology, and invaluable relationships, we bring a powerful advantage to our teams.

Pape-Dawson is a nationally recognized firm with a vast network of engineers, surveyors, technicians, environmental specialists, biologists, and program and construction management professionals. All Pape-Dawson employees operate as one team, offering a deep bench of multidiscipline subject matter experts and rich local knowledge in each office. To us, each project is an opportunity to build stronger relationships with our clients and improve the quality of life for communities.

Our Mission

To be the most respected engineering and professional services firm in our geographic and technical areas of practice.

Core Values

      •    Respect
      •    Integrity
      •    Excellence
      •    Responsiveness
      •    Hard Work
      •    Family

Breakfast Sponsor: The Rios Group

The Rios Group, Inc. (TRG) is a minority-woman owned Texas Corporation, established in 2012, and headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. With additional offices located in Dallas, Houston, Austin (Round Rock) and San Antonio (Universal City), TRG maintains a team of 108 people. TRG was recognized by Oncor as the 2017 Rising Star of the Year for Diverse Suppliers, by the City of Austin — Small & Minority Business Resources as one of the 2018 Small Businesses of the Year and by the City of Dallas- Office of Business Diversity as one of the 2019 4E Award recipients for Excellence. Our knowledge, experience and familiarity with diverse Texas communities have saved our clients from costly delays due to utility conflicts in civil design and construction projects.

Mission

Be the premier Subsurface Utility Engineer and Utility Coordination firm throughout the state of Texas by providing clients and team members with exceptional support, communication, collaboration, and tools to deliver high-quality, responsive, and reliable results. We stand behind our deliverables, leverage all of our resources for our clients and proactively set ourselves and our partners up for future success.