Principals

Harold A. Phelps, P.E., L.S.
President

Harold is a registered professional engineer and licensed land surveyor with 20 years of civil engineering and surveying experience. His responsibilities have included the design of arterial and residential streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water mains, subdivision platting, storm water quality and detention, flood studies, and bank stabilization projects.

Harold’s experiences in numerous flood studies control projects have established him as an authority in the Johnson County area. His experience with the Tomahawk Creek flood study established the “prototype” by which all SMAC flood studies are presently being performed. His experience with local dam design and construction provides a strong background of permitting through regulatory authorities, hydrology, hydraulics and outlet structures analysis.

Judd D. Claussen, P.E.
Project Manager

Judd is a registered professional engineer with nearly 20 years of civil engineering design engineering and project management experience. Judd has completed a variety of municipal and development projects including arterial, collector, residential streets, storm sewers, ponds, detention basins, culverts, sanitary sewers, water mains, zoning entitlements, subdivision platting, erosion control and SWPPP, storm water quality and BMP designs, public parks and bicycle/pedestrian trails.  His experience in numerous public infrastructure and site development projects has provided him with the professional knowledge to complete all phases of a project.

Thomas D. Phelps, L.S.
Survey Party Chief

The past 13 years, Tom has performed all phases of Design and Construction Staking. The last four (4) years he has been responsible for all surveying services completed at Phelps Engineering, Inc.

Tom is a licensed surveyor and has worked on a wide variety of survey projects, in the office as well as in the field. As a Survey Party Chief with Phelps Engineering, Tom is in charge of a variety of projects including municipal, commercial, and residential subdivisions, right-of-way maps, ALTA surveys and general plan amendments.

Douglas E. Ubben, L.S.
Survey Coordinator


Doug’s responsibilities include assigning survey crews to daily duties, office and field research for all phases of survey projects, obtaining plats and ownerships, drawings for boundary and ALTA surveys and office calculations for a variety of projects.

Doug has extensive background in the field of surveying, including GPS data collection, digital level runs and analog field data systems. He will be responsible for all field data acquisition activities related to this project.

Wendell D. Ubben
Retired Principal

After working at Phelps Engineering for over 17 years, Wendell retired in 2008 and is happily enjoying his retirement.