Since 1984 Latter Rain has drawn bridges for government and top tier consultancies and now occupies a rare place in the Australian bridge engineering landscape. Vast experience in bridge CAD detailing naturally led to 3D bridge modelling, specialist BIM solutions and next level digital visualization. We bring a rare combination of precision, expertise, experience, creativity and responsibility. The perfect solution to resource headaches.
1221 PROJECTS
22154 DRAWINGS
Latter Rain has been a direct bridge drafting resource to the DMR/RTA/RMS/TfNSW since 1989. Since its inception, we have sat on the RMS Bridge Drafting Panel alongside Australia’s leading consulting engineering firms and are the only drafting firm to ever do so.
That is validation of our standards, performance and experience by the industry’s benchmark. At a time when senior bridge drafters are rare, we provide depth and valuable specialist expertise. Having documented 100s of bridges we are of course fully familiar with mainroads WA, TMR and TfNSW Bridge Drafting Manuals.
Mark Bennett
Former Senior Bridge Engineer, New Design, Bridge Engineering, Roads and Maritime Services, NSW
For nearly 4 decades, Latter Rain has provided drafting services to many of the top tier bridge consultants preparing bridge designs in NSW. They have also provided drafting services direct to Bridge Engineering at RMS over this time and through Panel Contracts since 2010. With this experience Latter Rain are very familiar with the drafting style and standards of RMS Bridge Engineering.
What makes our service unique is not just our experience, but the level of responsibility we embrace. We have never disappointed a client nor missed a deadline. Back in 2005, our founder, Paul Keogh had a powerful realization that changed his purpose for being in business.
He made a serious commitment to strictly focus on learning the wishes of the one he served and doing his best to fulfill them, rather than making money or surviving recessions. That philosophy and goal is now a culture firmly embedded throughout the whole team. We have a passion to harness the latest hardware and the full power of good software to take away our client’s headaches.
Richard Woods
Senior Principal - Bridges, Cardno Pty Ltd
We could not have delivered without their commitment and experience. the Latter Rain team have worked through nights many, many times to make sure we were able to deliver drawings on time.
Ian Camilleri
Senior Design Engineer, RTA. Chief Bridge Engineer, Ove Arup and BG&E
I have found Paul and his team to be experienced, professional and highly committed and responsible. I have not found any other resource that could match such valuable qualities.
James Nasr
Bridges Manager - New Design, Senior Bridge Engineer, Cardno Pty Ltd.
The perfect mix of responsibility, excellence and experience is a rare and highly valued asset in any industry and Latter Rain has that in spades.
Ashman Singh
Senior Engineer, Arcadis
Quality product…. our clients have been blown away by the quality of the visualisations and how forward thinking we are.
Digital visualizations such as high-resolution animations, panoramas, photo realistic renders and walkthroughs add value and impact. People still buy with their eyes, so when Tier 1 companies are spending millions on a high-level bid for a major project, going beyond their competitors and using the latest technology and software that embed infrastructure into a real world context will not only impact potential clients by immersing them in a life-like environment, but also demonstrate an ability to be on the forefront of digital innovation and technology, adding to a client’s perception of technical capability.
Riding the wave of a digital revolution is better than being left behind. Latter Rain once used only one software package. We now use over twelve, push into innovation and harness emerging technology. Many Tier 2 or 3 firms struggle to match the technical abilities of the large ‘preferred’ consultants who have their own dedicated digital visualization teams. That is where we come in. That is the service we are passionate about providing.
Cardno (formerly MBK) have used Latter Rain for bridge drafting services since 1984 and, in that time, we have developed a close working relationship. We have found that their performance in bridge drafting has been outstanding.
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Richard Woods
Senior Principal - Bridges, Cardno Pty Ltd.
The perfect mix of responsibility, excellence and experience is a rare and highly valued asset in any industry and Latter Rain has that in spades.
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James Nasr
Bridges Manager - New Design, Senior Bridge Engineer, Cardno Pty Ltd.
My first recollection of Latter Rain occurred during my time as a senior bridge design engineer with the DMR (previously RTA of NSW). Latter Rain was engaged as an external drafting resource by the RMS Bridge Branch in late 1980’s, early 1990’s when Ray Wedgewood was the Chief Bridge Engineer managing the bridge group.
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Ian Camilleri
Senior Design Engineer, RTA. Chief Bridge Engineer, Ove Arup and BG&E
Latter Rain is our preferred supplier for infrastructure drafting and modelling. Paul and his team have extensive in-depth knowledge of technical standards and their work is always exemplary and accurate.
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Darnelle Stipp
Principle, Design-Analysis
Paul Keogh from Latter Rain Pty Ltd has been drafting structural bridge drawings for over 35 years. Latter Rain Pty Ltd has provided drafting services to many of the top tier bridge consultants preparing bridge designs in NSW.
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Mark Bennett
Former Senior Bridge Engineer, New Design, Bridge Engineering, Roads and Maritime Services, NSW
‘Quality product’ are the words that come to mind when discussing Latter Rain. Paul and his team have been easy to work with, their collaborative approach has helped us work together and have a smooth journey throughout the time we have been engaged together.
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Ashman Singh
Senior Engineer, Arcadis
Paul Keogh and the team at Latter Rain Bridge Drafting & Visualisation have produced realistic and immersive visualisations on each project where they have worked with us.
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Stuart Cameron
Operations Manager - Highway & Structures, Arcadis
Latterrain has been a good partner for Cardno over past decades to support our bridges team.
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Peter Boesch
Senior Principal - Bridges, Cardno Pty Ltd.
Latter Rain was founded in 1984 by Paul Keogh, a structural drafter who foresaw the looming digital revolution. Being an early adopter, in 1986 he moved his already established drafting bureau with 5 draftsmen into the AutoCAD world.
In the following decade, the entire industry retrained from the drawing board to CAD. Paul saw the great need for high quality training and established CADMEN in 1988, which grew to be become one of Australia’s largest private AutoCAD training centres.
One of his great achievements during the 90s’ was the creation of the world-leading CAD package, DRC Concrete, the Structural equivalent of ‘Smart Architect’ by DRC Auto.
Whilst being on the forefront of the CAD revolution, we remained true to our core business and serviced the drawing needs of over 30 consulting engineering firms. From early on, detailing bridges became more and more our focus and we now fully specialize in infrastructure. Paul himself has now detailed or modelled 100’s of bridges and is well established as a very sort-after senior bridge drafter.
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