About Us
Robert A. Nowicki and Associates Ltd. was founded as a family business on February 1, 1970 by Robert A. Nowicki. The company aimed to provide quality Land Surveying services to the south suburbs of Chicago, south suburban Cook County, and adjoining counties. During the 1970s and 80s, the company saw tremendous growth in a wide area of surveying services. It grew to become one of the top surveying companies in the area and enlarged its staff to over 20 employees. Expanding industrial, commercial, and residential developments brought about a wider field of land surveying services.
Over the past 50 years, RANLTD has evolved with ever-changing trends in technology. Using the fundamentals and foundations of land surveying, RANLTD has taken these proven traditions of land surveying and integrated them with state-of-the-art electronic systems, such as;
Computer Aided Drafting (CAD), Robotic and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Both in the field and in the office, RANLTD provides its clients with professionalism and quality of work that's proven itself for over 54 years.
Today, RANLTD has a very friendly, experienced, and professional staff that will work with you to help you meet your own land surveying needs. Whether your needs are a land survey of a single-family lot, a large residential subdivision, or an industrial or commercial subdivision, RANLTD will do all it can to assist you. Our experience in every type of land surveying allows us to be of service to you in any way we can.
Paul J. Nowicki President / CEO
Our Founder Robert A. Nowicki
Our History
Here is a brief history and background of my father, Robert A. Nowicki’s life:
Mr. Nowicki graduated from Lane Tech High School in June 1942. During his four years in high school, he had R.O.T.C (Reserve Officers Training Command) as part of his education.
In November 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army for WWII and attended basic training in California. In 1943, he was sent to a school in North Carolina for three months for an accelerated "Master Gunnery" course. Here, he learned all of the basics in Surveying, Mathematics (trigonometry and Algebra), celestial observation (the studies of the position of stars in the sky), meteorology, and various other subjects. This course allowed him to position anti-aircraft artillery for 16 artillery guns. These guns were used to bring down enemy airplanes in combat. They trained for approximately a year and a half in the deserts of New Mexico.
When the U.S. Air Force obtained air superiority in Europe, his entire Battalion was sent for infantry training and to the European Theater into combat on or about March of 1944 in WWII. This ended his activities in the surveying field for the time being. He was Honorably Discharged from the Army in March of 1946 and attended junior college in the fall of 1946.
From February 1947 through April 1951, he worked as an instrument man and party chief (head of the field crew) in various locations and land surveying work. Bob received his Land Surveyor license in Illinois in 1951. From October 1953 to February 1956, he worked primarily in land surveying in the development of the village of Park Forest, Illinois, and the general area in various surveying responsibilities. From March 1956 to May 1966, he worked in the Village of South Holland, Illinois. He was the manager of a Surveying and Engineering Company. He was responsible for all field crews and office personnel involved in significant developments in approximately ten villages in the South Suburban area of Cook County.
From May 1966 to March 1970, his work involved land surveying and the construction of custom homes. On February 1st, 1970, he decided to open his own land surveying business, working out of his home in South Holland.
From February 1964 through February 1966, he was the president of the Illinois Registered Land Surveyors Association. In 1980, he was appointed to the Illinois Land Surveyors examining board. On February 14, 1986, he was given a life membership to the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association. He worked as a land surveyor for 55 years.