McKim & Creed, an award-winning engineering and surveying firm, works with public and private sector clients via offices throughout the Southeast. The 450-person firm, which operates more than 50 survey crews, has been recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, for outstanding topographic and hydrographic surveying. Engineering News-Record consistently ranks McKim & Creed as one of the top 500 design firms, and one of the top 200 environmental firms, in the United States. Core competencies of the firm include water and wastewater planning and design, site / civil engineering, structural engineering, and surveying specialties ranging from electronic data collection to hydrographic surveying to subsurface utility engineering.

In August, 2006, McKim & Creed was named one of the 100 fastest growing engineering, architectural and environmental firms in America by the Zweig Letter selection committee.

The PODS Association, Inc., is a non-profit pipeline trade association that is developing and maintaining pipeline data standards and data interchange standards for the pipeline industry. These standards primarily include pipeline operations, facilities, integrity management, and regulatory compliance but are rapidly expanding to include all information associated with the pipeline. The PODS model provides a common platform that will enable pipeline companies to create a standards-based GIS database.

Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Trimble has a worldwide presence with more than 2,800 employees in over 18 countries.

To drive development and to assure the quality of our software applications, data services and its proprietary Precision Integration Process, Guardian ProStar has formed a development partnership with Sentinel USA, Inc. of Newark, OH. Sentinel USA Inc. specializes in Automated Mapping / Facilities Management Systems (AM/FM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The company’s continuing mission is to provide quality mapping services and solutions that meet the needs of each client. The firm is committed to providing cost effective solutions for each client, using the most appropriate technologies and expertise available.

Winner of the Wall Street Journal's 2004 Technology Innovation Award, Witten Technologies' Computer Assisted Radar Tomography (CART, or RT for short) provides a critical component of the Guardian ProStar system: accurate utility mapping data, created via 3D high-resolution underground imaging. Using a mobile array of GPR antennae, precise survey-grade tracking, and powerful image processing software, RT creates full-motion imagery of the shallow subsurface. From this imagery, utility lines and other sub-surface features precision locations are extracted and placed with Guardian's Precision LandBASE GIS.

The primary goal of TTC is to provide international leadership in Trenchless technology activities which enhance construction productivity, environmental improvement, and rehabilitation of the infrastructure. The specific objectives of the Center are to conduct basic and applied research for industry and government agencies; assist industries in developing, marketing, and manufacturing new products; promote technology transfer within the industry; establish and disseminate standard guidelines and specifications; monitor proposed regulations that impact the industry; develop contractor, designer, and inspector certification programs; and provide liaison with related trade and professional organizations.