Second Alarm Productions Civil 3D Plan Production

Drafted in Mississippi · Never offshore

We build the sheets.
You seal them.

Overflow civil plan production, custom Civil 3D libraries, and submittal-ready plan sets for engineering and survey firms — built to your standards, on your title block, by an American drafter you can call during your business hours.

22 years in Civil 3D · Survey · Roadway · Drainage · Utilities

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Project
Your next submittal
Drawn by
Second Alarm Productions, LLC
Drafted in
Mississippi, U.S.A.
Sealed by
Client firm of record
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The work

What comes off the board

Survey through construction plans — the same six sheet types most firms hand us when the deadline stacks up.

Sample sheets shown. Client work is produced under your title block and sealed by your engineer of record.

American owned. American drafted.

Plan production gets shipped overseas every day, and firms pay for it in rework, time-zone lag, and standards nobody on your team recognizes. Every sheet we produce is drawn here, in Mississippi, by an American drafter you can reach during your business hours.

Made in
the U.S.A.
No offshore
production

Twenty-two years, four states

Chasing one problem across the South

Water. Every part of the country has its own version of it, and none of them teach you what the last one did. That's not a résumé — it's an education you can only get by moving.

PUSH IT — 0.10' OF FALL WATER TABLE RETAINING WALL SLOW IT DOWN PUMP IT LEVEE LEVEE TOWN A TOWN B NOT ENOUGH OF IT FLORIDA NORTH CAROLINA LOUISIANA WEST TEXAS PROFILE — ONE DESIGNER, FOUR VERSIONS OF THE SAME PROBLEM → NOW MISSISSIPPI

Florida · Push it

Flat ground, high water

Nothing falls on its own down there. The table sits right under your feet and the land won't give you an inch of relief. You learn to push water exactly where it has to go on a tenth of a foot, and to check your datum twice before you trust it.

North Carolina · Slow it down

Slow it down, wall it up

In the Blue Ridge the problem reverses. Water arrives with speed behind it, so the job is slowing it down — and building real retaining wall to flatten ground that never wanted to be flat.

Louisiana · Too much of it

Levees, pumps and survey

Baton Rouge doesn't drain, it pumps and it levees. It's also where I learned survey properly, refitting a survey department off Civil 3D and onto Carlson Field to Finish — raw field codes through to a finished plat.

West Texas · Not enough

Towns at war over a drop

Out past Abilene the fight isn't drainage, it's supply. Town against town over the same water, and every line you draw is one somebody's attorney is going to read.

I've seen most of what the South can throw at a designer. Give me an engineer's direction and there isn't much we can't draw.

Services

Three ways firms use us

Scale production without the overhead of a full-time hire — and without retraining anyone on your standards.

Custom libraries

Civil 3D content built for real production

Standards-compliant blocks, assemblies, and part catalogs for drainage structures, sewer, and stormwater networks — built to DOT, municipal, or project-specific standards, with the source drawing cited on every part.

  • Parametric assemblies & dynamic blocks
  • Pipe networks, manholes, inlets
  • Full custom part catalogs
Production & training

Overflow drafting and in-house Civil 3D coaching

High-volume production drafting when deadlines stack up — surveys, alignments, profiles, corridors, grading, surfaces. Or we train your staff on the same workflows so the capability stays in the building.

  • Surface & corridor modeling
  • Existing conditions from field data
  • One-on-one or team training
Plan sets

Submittal-ready sheets on your title block

Full sheet sets assembled to your CAD standards and ready for review — plan and profile, drainage, utilities, details, and quantities. You review, you seal, you submit.

  • Plan & profile sheet series
  • Details, notes, quantity tables
  • Your layers, styles, and title block

How a job runs

Waterfall and scrum,
at the same time

Civil has to be the only trade where waterfall is both a project methodology and a drainage feature. We run both meanings at once: the phases fall in order and the dates hold, while the tasks between them get juggled so nothing sits still.

Waterfall · the dates hold

The order is physics, not preference

Datum before boundary. Boundary before geometry. Geometry before sheets. No amount of agility saves a plan set built on the wrong benchmark, so the sequence gets locked at kickoff and isn't renegotiated at 60%.

  • 01  Setup & standards
  • 02  Data / field
  • 03  Existing conditions
  • 04  Design model
  • 05  Annotation & labels
  • 06  Plan production
  • 07  QC & handoff
Scrum · the work keeps moving

Tasks get juggled so a blocked item never stalls the set

A standing call keeps the decisions flowing. When the storm network is blocked waiting on a call from your side, that hour goes into detail sheets instead of into staring at a drawing waiting for the phone to ring.

  • Short standing check-in on an agreed cadence
  • Blocked items parked, not padded with busywork
  • You always know what's done and what's waiting on you

DRAFTING NOTE: around here a hundred-year storm turns up about every four years.
The 30% submittal turns up on the date in the contract.

Quality control

Three gates before anything reaches you

Every deliverable clears the same checks, so what lands in your inbox is ready for your review — not a starting point for a cleanup pass.

GATE A

Setup verified

Coordinate system, units, your CAD standards, and the source data all confirmed against the project before a single line gets drawn.

GATE B

Model checked

Surfaces, alignments, profiles, and networks reviewed for accuracy and buildability — the model has to hold up before it becomes sheets.

GATE C

Sheets reviewed

Labels, annotation scale, line work, references, and plotting checked sheet by sheet, then a full-set read before delivery.

Designed to stand when the floods come.

We don't build on sand

Get started

Tell us what's on your desk

Send the scope and the deadline. You'll get a straight answer on whether we can hit it and what it costs.

Email
secondalarmproductions@outlook.com
Phone
(601) 555-0000
Based in
Clinton, Mississippi
Typical turnaround
Quote within one business day