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Traverse City, MI
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Gourdie Fraser, Inc. (GFA) is a full-service civil engineering, surveying, and operations consulting firm based in Traverse City, Michigan. Founded in 1948 as the John C. Norton Company, GFA has grown into an integral partner for municipalities, road commissions, and private developers across northern Michigan. It offers an unusually broad service mix spanning transportation engineering, site development, municipal engineering, GIS/asset management, hydrographic surveying, and contract operations and maintenance of water and wastewater systems.
Roadway design, traffic studies, and transportation planning for local roads, county road commissions, and state-funded projects.
Civil site engineering for residential subdivisions, waterfront parcels, and commercial development projects.
Engineer-of-record services for municipalities and villages, including infrastructure planning, project management, and long-term advisory relationships.
Land and boundary surveying supporting site development, construction layout, and property transactions across northern Michigan.
Underwater and bathymetric surveying of lakes, rivers, and waterways for dredging, navigation, and environmental projects.
Construction administration, inspection, and contractor supervision for civil infrastructure projects.
Geographic information systems and infrastructure asset management services for municipalities and utilities.
Contract operations, sampling, and 24/7 maintenance of municipal and community water filtration plants and wastewater treatment systems.
Long Lake Township, MI | Walton Contracting, Inc. | Residential Development
Planning and design for a 28-unit residential subdivision on a 40-acre parcel in Long Lake Township, including units with direct frontage on South Twin Lake.
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Simply stated, GFA is very good at what they do. We have absolute confidence and trust in this firm, its employees, and their work. Of those, a handful standout as being great. Our past and present experience with GFA justifies our placement of this firm in the latter category.
I have worked with the team at Gourdie-Fraser for the better part of 10 years. We build on challenging waterfront property all over Northern Michigan making surveying and site engineering a very important part of our process. I can't say enough about the timeliness, professionalism and dedication of Gourdie-Fraser.
GFA staff provided the expertise, education and professionalism that enabled the Village to navigate the project from grant application, engineering, field supervision and final audit of the project.
They have worked with us for 17 years on both our Wastewater Treatment System and more recently, on our state of the art membrane Water Filtration Plant. They are knowledgeable of the Federal and EGLE State regulations. They do all sampling and maintenance, and are available 24/7 for prompt service.
Gourdie-Fraser and Associates (GFA) has served the City of Clare as our engineer of record for over half a century, always with a positive, can do and solution oriented perspective. In all respects the entire GFA team are consummate professionals in every respect who we consider to be more than just our engineering contractor, we consider them to be valued members of our staff.
The Village of Central Lake has a very dynamic relationship with Ms. Hodges and GFA. Their extensive knowledge of Central Lake and our personnel affords a more productive use of time, energy, and money. I highly recommend the use of GFA, as the professional engineering firm and Jennifer Hodges a project manager without reservation.
The Benzie County Road Commission selected GFA as our engineer of record in Feb, 2016... our experience has been very positive. The staff is readily available and has demonstrated a high level of professionalism.