Operating out of 2 hotel rooms in Rogers, Arkansas. Lem Tull and Bob Crafton open the very first office.

Crafton, Tull & Associates, Inc. moves to it's new location along Highway 94 in Rogers. A top-of-the-line computer is purchased for $130,000 filling an entire room.

A merger with Spann, Swearingen, and Yoe allows Crafton, Tull & Associates, Inc. to begin providing Architectural services. Former President (then Governor) Bill Clinton cuts the ribbon and cake at the celebration of our office expansion!

The company has now grown to include 6 principals, 14 graduate engineers, and 4 architects.

Lem Tull, one of the original co-founders, retires after 33 years of leadership. Mansur, Daubert, Strella, an engineering firm based in Tulsa, OK is acquired.

Perkins & Associates in Russellville, AR is acquired to offer architectural, engineering and surveying services in central Arkansas. Geurin Engineering is acquired in Tulsa, OK to provide structural services.

Employees and friends gather at the Holiday Inn in Springdale, AR to celebrate Bob Crafton's retirement after 37 years of leadership.

The Rogers, AR office moves to a more central location in the center of a growing Northwest Arkansas region along I-540.

An Oklahoma City office is opened for engineering and surveying services, not far away an architecture groups starts as well. The two will join forces in 2006.

A merger with I.C.E. Inc., a structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering firm in Little Rock, AR adds 40 employees and a central Arkansas presence.

Merger with SPARKS, an architectural, engineering and interior design firm, results in top 500 ranking by Engineering News Record; an office is opened in Wichita, KS; and firm is named to ZweigWhite’s Top 100 Hot Firms list.

Design Engineers Inc., a 50-year old, 16 person municipal and civil engineering firm in Oklahoma City, joins Crafton Tull Sparks.