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About Kuo & Associates, Inc.

Kuo & Associates, Inc. Consulting Engineers is a Texas corporation, incorporated in 1985, providing civil, structural engineering and surveying services to Texas communities. Our offices are located in the Westchase area of Houston at 10700 Richmond Avenue, Suite 113. The firm has a highly qualified staff of seventeen experienced and dedicated professionals including three registered professional engineers and two registered professional land surveyors experienced in project management, design, and construction.

Kuo & Associates, Inc. provides engineering services for Metro, school, church, highways and streets, commercial, industrial, and transportation structures, drainage improvements, traffic and transportation systems, and municipal facilities.

Kuo & Associates, Inc. is certified with TxDOT as a Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) enterprise.

Kuo & Associates, Inc. is certified with METRO as a Small Business Enterprise in the Business Development Program in the capacity of Civil Engineering and Surveying.

Kuo & Associates, Inc. is certified with the City of Houston and HISD as a Minority Business Enterprise.

Survey Capabilities

Kuo & Associates, Inc. has the capability to perform all categories of work defined in the current Manual of Practice for Land Surveying in the State of Texas as published by the Texas Society of Profession Surveyors. Our office currently has three survey field crews and is fully equipped to run four survey field crews. Survey equipment includes four Topcon total stations with Sokkia data collectors, one Topcon electronic digital level, four Topcon automatic levels, and two Leica series 500 GPS units. All field crews are equipped with cellular phones and two-way radios for expediting communications. Survey software includes the latest Geopack, Micro-Station, Eagle Point, and AutoCAD programs. Our office is equipped with ten CAD work-stations and a state of art Hewlett-Packard high speed plotter. We also are equipped with general office software such as Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, and numerous HP printers and a Scanner.

Software & Equipment

Hydrology and Hydraulics

HEC1, HEC2, and HEC RAS - Programs from Corps of Engineers WinStorm 3.0 - Texas Hydraulic System from Highway Department

Civil Design

SoftDesk 8 - AutoCAD R14 based Civil Engineering Design Eagle Point 98 - AutoCAD R15 and MircroStation SE based Civil Engineering Design GeoPak - MicroStation J based Civil Engineering Design

Structures

SPAN - Commercial bridge program used by the FHA PSTRS14 - Bridge program used by the Highway Department STAAD3 - Three-dimensional structural program with AASHTO code check

Surveying

State of art Topcon Electronic Total Stations, Sokkia SDR 33 data collectors, optical and electronic levels, Leica "System 500" Gobal Positioning System, and various computer programs for surveying computations.

Drafting

Ten micro-computer stations with AUTOCAD and INTERGRAPH software
Hewlett Packard 1050 C High Speed inkjet plotter

Office

Microsoft Office 2000
Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 and Version 10

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