About the Firm
Cole Surveying & Design, PA
Since 2007, Wes Cole Land Surveying, PA has been providing land surveying in and around the Asheville area. In 2019, the firm was rebranded and renamed Cole Surveying & Design, PA (CSD) in order to offer more comprehensive land services to their clients. The firm continues to offer the same detailed, thorough and accurate surveying services and now also offers landscape architectural, historic preservation and local regulatory and code compliance assistance services. In addition to the more routine surveying services, CSD also offers aerial drone/UAV surveying and specializes in ALTA surveys. The CSD team is here to assist you as needed from the very early stages of planning and surveying to the fruition of your project!
J. Wes Cole, PLS - Founder
Director of Surveying
Wes knew that he wanted to be a surveyor since high school. He earned his surveying degree at East Tennessee State University in Tennessee while working for a small locally owned surveying firm. After college, he spent a couple of years in Winston Salem working for an engineering and surveying firm before being transferred to their Asheville office. He then worked for a local family-owned surveying firm in Asheville before starting his own land surveying company in 2007.
Wes strives daily to ensure his clients are getting the quality surveying services they deserve, and he works hard to be involved in each project CSD works on. He is detail-oriented and is always pushing himself to learn more about the surveying industry and technical advances in the field. His vision for Cole Surveying & Design, PA is to provide surveying services for his clients that are accurate, high-quality, and can stand the test of time.
Licenses as a Professional Land Surveyor (PLS):
NC PLS #L-4561
TN RLS #2432
SC PLS #27443
Certifications:
NC Certified Floodplain Surveyor #150
Hillary Cole, RLA
Director of Landscape Architecture
Being raised in Montana, Hillary grew up with a love of the outdoors and she knew that is where she wanted to be. She earned her degree in landscape design and horticulture from Montana State University and then she went on to earn her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Colorado at Denver, in conjunction with a certificate in Historic Preservation. It was because her love of history that she was hired by the national landscape architectural and planning firm, Design Workshop. After seven years, the recession hit and Hillary went out on her own and completed marketing work for various A&E firms in the area and also performed Historic Architectural Inventory survey work. Hillary was then hired by a local engineering and surveying firm and worked for them for seven years providing marketing, historic architectural surveying, landscape architecture and landscape planning services before joining Cole Surveying & Design, PA.
Licenses as a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA):
NC 1847
SC 1272
Certifications:
Certified Plant Professional through the Southeastern Nurserymen’s Association
Certified Construction Document Technician through the National Constructions Standards Institute
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