Legacies. That’s what our firms within The HFW Companies represent in their communities and across our national footprint with their depth and diversity of AE design talent, award-winning expertise, and years of experience solving some of the country’s most pressing infrastructure challenges.
We’ve worked hard to bring these firms together as a best-in-class national AE network under the HFW brand. Our team drives our success with an innovative — and unifying — operations platform that fosters multidisciplinary collaboration among our firms, market agility and resilience, and project delivery excellence for our clients.
And we provide to our firms all the resources necessary to accelerate growth both organically and through strategic acquisitions. Indeed, we’re shaping tomorrow, together.
Miller Legg is an award-winning consulting firm that has been “improving communities and creating environments since 1965.” Miller Legg brings together the elements of engineering, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, environmental consulting, and geospatial expertise, including surveying, subsurface utility engineering, and geographic information systems.
Communities and developments; government; institutions; transportation; federal; and international work.
Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Port St. Lucie, FL; Tampa, FL Learn More
HSQ Group is a multi-disciplinary civil engineering, roadway design, planning, and surveying company founded in 2004 that provides consulting services to developers and governmental agencies. Public clients include several municipalities, counties, and the Florida Department of Transportation, in addition to numerous large private developers throughout the state.
Transportation/roadway, land development planning, drainage, water and sewer, surveying, construction management, and inspection services.
Boca Raton, FL; Sunrise, FL; Miami, FL Learn More
CRANSTON has been leveraging its diverse civil and structural engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and surveying expertise since 1967 to empower communities across the heart of the Southeast to thrive.
Its experience spans from planning new residential communities, maintaining historic canal systems and dams, and designing sustainable park infrastructure, to serving municipalities, designing education and medical structures, and upgrading roads and bridges.
Community living/development; transportation; water resource management; and specialized surveying.
Augusta, GA; Midlands, SC; Charleston, SC; Hilton Head, SC Learn More
4Ward Land Surveying, a professional land surveying company, has been providing technology driven services for commercial, residential, and public works projects throughout Texas since 2009. Services include everything from ALTA/ACSM land title surveys, topo-graphic surveys, and easement descriptions, to subdivision plats, horizontal/vertical control surveying, bathymetric/hydrographic surveys, and GIS mapping.
Large commercial developments, mixed-use subdivisions, multifamily housing developments, and retail centers, as well as non-profit/religious, institutional, public works, and oil-and-gas projects.
Austin, TX Learn More
INVISION is an Iowa-based planning, architecture, and interiors design firm that has been serving the Midwest since 1914. The firm, which now is undertaking a national expansion, offers a broad spectrum of specialized design services that span the pre-design, design, and post-design phases of projects.
Markets Include:
Education, health and wellness, corporate headquarters, sports and recreation, hospitality, housing, workplace, municipal, cultural, distribution and fulfillment centers, warehouses, data centers, and manufacturing facilities.
GastingerWalker& has been providing architecture, interior design, construction management, space planning, and historic rehabilitation services for clients since 1981 across 45 states, thanks to national clients such as AMC Theatres, Allstate Insurance Company, SunLife Financial, Amsurg America, and Spectrum Retirement Communities, among others.
Eighty-five percent of the firm’s business comes from new projects with repeat clients.
Live; work; learn; heal; and play sectors
Kansas City, MO Learn More
Since 2002, Taney Engineering has been serving Las Vegas and Nevada as a leader in land development and public works engineering. Taney is a full-service civil engineering and land surveying company that provides land planning and development, UAV drone services, land auction due-diligence, and 3D site planning and renderings.
The firm’s engineering experience spans commercial/industrial, renewable energy, health care, public, residential and transportation engineering.
Las Vegas, NV Learn More
Houston, Texas, considered the most populous region in Texas and one of the top 10 most populous regions in the country, requires a tremendous amount of public and private infrastructure. Kuo & Associates, with its award-winning civil engineering and land surveying expertise, has been supporting the growth and management of such infrastructure across Southeast Texas since 1985.
KUO’s engineers and surveyors provide sustainable infrastructure design solutions that help its communities and private development partners prosper.
Markets include: Water resource management, transportation, site development, and surveying.
Houston, TX Learn More
Launched in 2019, civil engineering firm KFM continues to build its own legacy across the state of Texas, with its current focus in the Dallas/North Texas and Austin and San Antonio/Central Texas markets.
The firm, founded by Jim Knight, PE, Charlie Fowler, Jr., PE, and Josh Millsap, PE, provides civil engineering, land planning, landscape architecture, and due diligence. with most of the firm’s business coming from private development clients.
Markets include: Retail, mixed-use, single-family, multifamily, industrial, and office development throughout Texas.
Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, Texas Learn More
Southwest Engineers, based centrally between Austin and San Antonio, Texas, serves as a living legacy to the commitment of this civil engineering firm’s founder, Clarence Littlefield, to provide high-quality civil engineering to the public and private sectors. Inherent in this commitment is this simple philosophy: “Exceptional designs flourish when challenges are accepted.”
Southwest Engineers exudes the Texas spirit of respect, courtesy, hard work, doing things right, and not backing down from a challenge. Its team takes great pride in contributing to its clients’ successes and improving local communities.
The firm’s focus on the values of faith, family, and community has been commonplace since Clarence’s son, John Littlefield, was 16, assisting with surveying jobs, and lending a hand around the office. John’s professional growth and natural leadership skills eventually welcomed a new era for Southwest Engineers, expanding from water systems into land development to service the Texas boom.
Markets include
Since 1978, the firm has honed its infrastructure design skills assisting utility districts, municipalities, counties, and other entities throughout metro and rural Central Texas in their quest for reliable water systems. Southwest Engineers also designs residential subdivisions, multi-family & mixed-use developments, and commercial projects. In 2020, the firm expanded its service offerings to include land and right-of-way acquisition (ROW).
Gonzales, Buda, Bastrop, Round Rock, and Cuero, Texas Learn More
Macgregor Associates Architects/ an INVISION Studio (MAA) has been delivering specialized, large-scale office and industrial architecture planning and design nationally since 1987.
The firm, known for designing data centers, distribution and fulfillment centers, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, corporate headquarters, and other office buildings, became an INVISION Studio in May 2025 when it was acquired by Iowa-based architecture firm INVISION. INVISION, founded in 1914, is part of the HFW Partner Network.
MAA has built its national reputation for excellence on its ability to create buildings that are sensibly and efficiently planned, well-constructed to withstand extreme weather and seismic conditions, aesthetically pleasing, and completed on budget and within tight deadlines. The firm has been ranked among the largest industrial-sector architecture firms in the country based on industrial building design revenue.
Markets include
Data centers; distribution and fulfillment centers; warehouses; manufacturing facilities; corporate headquarters; other office buildings; education; health and wellness; sports and recreation; hospitality; housing; workplace; municipal; and cultural facilities.
Atlanta , GA and Dallas , TX Learn More