Civil engineering and land surveying since 1946
Civil engineers and land surveyors on Kansas Avenue in downtown Olathe. Boundary and lot surveys, plot plans and house stakes, site and subdivision design, stormwater, and public improvements across Johnson County.
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Most people reach us for one of three reasons. Find yours, and you will know what to ask for when you call.
Closing on a house, putting up a fence, settling a line with a neighbor
Call 913-782-4800 and ask for the survey department. What to have ready
A new house on a platted lot
Email the plot plan order form to plotplans@payne-brockway.com. New builders send the builder's agreement with their first order.
Land, subdivisions, campuses, streets and storm sewers
Call 913-782-4800 to talk with an engineer about your project.
A full-service civil engineering, land planning and land surveying firm. The same staff works with you through planning, surveying, platting, zoning, design, permitting, bidding, construction staking and observation, and final acceptance.
A surveyor is often the first professional consulted when a property is bought, sold or built on, and real estate closings often hinge on getting a complete, accurate survey on time.
What will it cost? Survey fees depend on the type of survey, the terrain, the weather, and how much record and monument evidence already exists. That makes an exact fee hard to quote up front, but a surveyor can usually give you an estimate once they know what you need.
A survey of a lot in a recorded subdivision. Corners are marked to current standards, and you receive a drawing showing which corners were set and which were found.
Usually described by metes and bounds. It can take research into adjoining deeds, original government surveys and highway plans, and field work on neighboring land to find existing monuments, because many deeds were written in an office and never actually surveyed.
Divides an existing parcel into smaller ones. It is recorded with the county and must meet the requirements of the government agencies involved.
A drawing of the natural and man-made features of the land: fences, buildings, utilities, slopes, streams and roads. It should be paired with a boundary survey, which only a licensed land surveyor can perform, to show lines of possession.
Shows where a proposed house or structure will sit, so it is built in the right place and not over an easement or setback line. Stakes are set in the field to mark the building.
Often required by lenders, title companies or escrow agents before construction loans are paid out. It confirms the foundation is on the property and not encroaching on easements or building lines.
The most comprehensive survey. It covers everything in a boundary survey and improvement location, plus any evidence of possession or use that could affect a purchaser.
Public and private work across Johnson County, including a long relationship with the City of Olathe.
Design build with O'Donnell & Sons, City of Olathe, 2009
When construction costs nearly doubled between 2004 and 2008, Payne & Brockway and O'Donnell & Sons put together a design build plan for 6,440 lineal feet of arterial roadway, including a creek crossing in the 100-year floodplain. The plan saved the City $1,000,000, and the roads were built in a single season, on time and within budget.
Benefit district, City of Olathe
About 3,600 feet of gravel road rebuilt as half of a major arterial, with a pedestrian bridge beside the Little Cedar Creek bridge. Payne & Brockway helped form the benefit district, designed the road, managed the project and handled land acquisition along its full length.
Site development, Olathe
Nine artificial turf fields including a championship field, 17 commercial and retail buildings totaling 250,000 square feet, and 450,000 cubic yards of soil and rock moved. Survey, platting, stormwater, grading, utilities and construction staking through an as-built ALTA survey.
Olathe School District
Football, soccer, baseball and softball fields, an eight-lane track and parking for more than 6,000 cars. Site planning, survey, platting, stormwater, grading, utilities and construction staking.
Cancer Center, The Birth Place, Hospice House, Family Medicine
Site layout, rezoning, platting, grading, utilities, water quality and detention for several buildings on the campus, plus new turn lanes and a signal modification on 151st Street.
Johnson County Community College, Olathe
A 28,581 square foot building on 5.84 acres, laid out to meet both City of Olathe requirements and LEED credit criteria, served by a regional water quality basin Payne & Brockway also designed.
College Boulevard Activity Center
A field with specially designed rubber turf so children ages 6 to 17 with intellectual or physical challenges can play baseball. Topographic survey, storm sewer plans, permitting and construction administration.
Olathe and Gardner
Survey and hydraulic modeling for the Olathe Watershed Study, lead engineering on the City of Gardner Watershed Master Plan, and the Black Bob regional detention study on Coffee Creek.
Carman Payne and Stan Brockway founded the firm in Olathe in 1946. Eighty years on, it is still in Olathe, and its principals are still directly involved in every project, from the research and field work to the drafting, calculations and construction layout.
Decades of local work mean a deep store of records and knowledge of Johnson County land, which shortens the learning curve on any new project.
President and principal engineer. A partner since 1996 and president since 2010.
Partner and principal land surveyor. Joined the firm in 1986 as a survey crew chief and became a partner in 2005.
Founded in Olathe by Carman G. Payne, P.E. and S. H. "Stan" Brockway, P.E.
Joined the Olathe Chamber of Commerce
Mark S. Huggins becomes president
Eighty years in Olathe
Payne & Brockway works mainly in the Kansas City metro. The firm has hired for roles like these:
To ask about current openings, call 913-782-4800.