Recreation Engineering and Planning is the World Leader in:

• Design of Highly Used Parks:  Our parks see dramatic usage and have hosted National and International level competitive events such as the Olympic Festival, Eddie Bauer International Series, and the U.S. National Championships as well as multi-million dollar festivals including the Reno Whitewater Festival, Boulder Creek Festival, Teva Mountain Games and the FIB-ARK.

• Design for Profitability/Impact:  REP's whitewater parks have had a dramatic effect on the locations in which they reside.  The $37 Million Dollar U.S. National Whitewater Center recently completed in Charlotte, N.C. is the most profitable whitewater park in the world and, additionally, has resulted in tens of millions of dollars of economic impact on the local communities.  Other parks, like Vail, Breckenridge, Golden, Steamboat Springs, Reno, and Salida have millions of dollars in impact each year based on independent studies (see links on left).  For a relatively small investment by local communities, these projects represent a tremendous rate of return.

• Project Completion:  Are you looking for 1000 feet of whitewater park or just another nicely typed study?  REP believes in building parks that are well designed, permanent, stable, and appropriate for the site in an efficient manner.  Our engineers are experts in physical and computer modeling, analytical design, and hydraulic scaling of structures.  They are also experts in determining the level of study necessary for a particular project, helping to avoid spending extra money for unnecessary models.  Our parks get built because we put the needs of our clients and the publics first. Every phase of a project is another step closer to completion. Ask your designer how many parks they have completed vs. how many they have studied.  REP has designed, permitted, and built over 50 whitewater parks, many of which have been award winning.  We get the job off the paper and on the water by making project completion our number one priority.

• Knowledgeable Consulting:  When it comes to Business Planning, Master Planning, Construction Planning and Operations Consulting the name of the game is experience and training.  No firm in the world has the experience and knowledge base that REP has.  Our Engineers and Designers are National and International Whitewater Competitors and Licensed Engineers.  Additionally, our staff includes trained economists, environmental experts and planners.  When it comes to making informed decisions with regard to investment, layout, design, staging, implementation and operations there is simply no other firm that can bring to bear the sort of knowledge base that REP possesses.  We are the Whitewater Park Experts.

• Technology:  REP is the world leader in analytical and computer whitewater design.  No other firm has the same expertise in calibrating and applying engineering tools and formulas to whitewater design.  Our parks are built with the best practice design tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics, Froude Scaled Physical Hydraulic Models (we do these both in-house and in commercial model laboratories depending on the project), HEC-RAS computer modeling as well as custom written numerical methods, analytical mathematics, and hydraulically scaled adaptive design.  In many cases our in-house model capabilities can save hundreds of thousands of dollars as compared to laboratory studies for the same results.  Our offices are also equipped with state of the art software capabilities that allow us to work seamlessly with other design teams on larger, team-based projects.

• Design Team Compatibility:  REP has tailored itself to mesh seamlessly with bigger design teams.  Many of our projects include local site/civil engineers, architects, landscape architects and project managers.  REP's size, expertise, and experience make it an ideal teammate to specialize in the whitewater component of a project.  We also have relationships with other experienced designers that can be partnered in to projects that require expertise in their areas.