Laney has over 45 years experience working in the surveying, engineering, and construction industries. He started his career working primarily designing residential, single family and multi-family developments for various clients from northeast Texas, to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, south to the Houston/Galveston area. He has performed design and project management services for institutional clients from schools, colleges, churches, and hospitals. He currently provides project management services to industrial clients in general, consisting of wood product plants to include plywood, oriented strand board, wood pellet, and lumber mills, steel mills, feed mills, and gas processing plants. He is a consultant to the Kansas City Southern Railway Company as well as the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. He has worked on projects involving the Texas Department of Transportation and Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, along with multiple governing agencies throughout Texas, for designing municipal streets, drainage, and utility infrastructure improvements. He has also worked with major retail developments providing site design and project management services throughout the state of Texas. Laney has designed and provided project management services, from conception to completion of construction, for projects spanning the southern United States, from Arizona east to South Carolina.