"In my six years of coordinating airfield work with all types of contractors, I have not experienced the production achieved by your crews while working the entire airfield with several runway/taxiway closures. Your efforts greatly assisted myself and airfield staff with our work schedules for other activities going on at DCA. Thank you so much! "

— Stephen Powers, P.E.
Parsons Management Consultants

Company Profile
Rice Associates, Inc. is a survey and photogrammetry firm that was founded in 1986. With offices in Manassas, VA and Richmond, VA, the firm offers a broad range of surveying and mapping services to a diverse base of public and private clients. Rice Associates maintains a full-time staff of licensed surveyors and technicians specializing in boundary, cadastral, control, construction stakeout, hydrography, and topography surveys.
Rice Associates named one of
7 Progressive Surveying Firms (PDF)
by Point of Beginning Magazine

Pioneers in the Industry

Rice Associates diversified staff includes specialists that posses a high level understanding of project requirements from project planning through to project delivery.

The firm has the ability to take on large scale projects with accelerated schedules as well as smaller projects. Rice Associates is a very innovative firm and helped pioneer the use of Global Positioning within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Today the firm continues to operate at the leading edge of technology with its Leica Scan Station 2 - Ground Based Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. Rice Associates system operators have been factory trained in support of the firm's commitment to provide the highest quality and most cost effective service to its clients.
Expanding our footprint...Rice Associates opens new office location in Virginia Beach and adds highly experienced Stephen Tolison, LS (PDF) to management team.

Our Foundation is Built on Quality,
Consistency & Professionalism

The firm has built its reputation on quality, consistency, and professionalism. Rice Associates has extensive experience supporting a wide variety of federal, state, county and municipal projects.

The firm holds prime contracts with The Virginia Department of Transportation, The Fairfax County Department of Public Works, and The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Rice Associates also holds significant subcontracts with The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, The Baltimore Army Corps of Engineers, and The United States Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration.