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TRANSACT IONS MCKIM & CREED ACQUIRES PENSACOLA ENGINEERING & SURVEYING FIRM McKim & Creed, Inc. , one of the largest engineering and geomatics firms headquartered in the Southeast, announced that it has acquired Pensacola-based Jehle-Halstead, Inc. JHI provides civil engineering and surveying services for land development and infrastructure projects in the Florida Panhandle, South Alabama, and Gulf Coast areas. “Jehle-Halstead is a strong, team-oriented, well-established firm that shares McKim & Creed’s commitment to superior quality, responsiveness and dependability,” said John Lucey, president and CEO of McKim & Creed. “Combining McKim & Creed’s strengths with those of Jehle-Halstead enables us to provide more specialized and advanced technologies – such as hydrographic surveying, unmanned aerial systems, and sustainable energy solutions – in the dynamic Florida Panhandle and Gulf Coast areas. We are excited to add our tenth Florida office and expand the McKim & Creed footprint into this region of Florida.” JHI began its professional practice in 1987 and employs 17 people. The company works within the commercial, educational, government, medical, military and residential arenas, and has furnished services for such recent notable projects as: ❚ ❚ The Nine-Mile Road Utility Expansion/ Upgrade/Relocation completed for

the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority in Escambia County, Florida. ❚ ❚ Beach Haven Redevelopment, completed jointly for Escambia County and Emerald Coast Utilities Authority. ❚ ❚ North and South Old Corry Field Roads sidewalk and drainage improvements for Escambia County. ❚ ❚ East District stormwater project for the City of Gulf Breeze, Florida. ❚ ❚ Numerous planning, design, permitting and construction administration projects as the exclusive continuing civil engineering services provider for the Santa Rosa County School District. ❚ ❚ Wide-ranging planning, design, permitting and construction administration efforts for numerous private developments in and around Northwest Florida. McKim & Creed provides engineering and geomatics services from 21 offices located throughout North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Texas and Pennsylvania. The 40-year- old company has more than 500 employee- owners. Glenn Halstead, Jehle-Halstead president, and Patrick Jehle, Jr., vice president/operations manager will oversee the Pensacola office, which will go by the name McKim & Creed, Inc. “By joining forces with McKim & Creed, we are

significantly expanding the services we provide to our clients, and can now offer a deep and wide pool of resources from which to draw,” said Halstead. “We will continue to drive local business and be an integral part of the Pensacola community,” added Jehle. “As a part of McKim & Creed, our staff will remain in place and our client relationships will continue. The only difference is that now we can offer more opportunities, resources and services for our clients.” McKim & Creed is a 500-person, employee- owned engineering and geomatics firm with offices in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1978 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. McKim & Creed specializes in civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural engineering; design- build; airborne and mobile LiDAR/scanning; drones; subsurface utility engineering; and hydrographic and conventional surveying services for the energy, transportation, federal, land development, water and building markets. Jehle-Halstead provides a comprehensive range of engineering and surveying services throughout the Florida Panhandle, South Alabama and Gulf Coast areas. In addition to civil engineering and surveying, JHI is highly experienced in providing bidding, construction management and inspection services.

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management systems, tools, and processes are used in con- junction with one another. Not all elements require the same amount of time or attention, so it is up to project managers (see The flexibility principle) to determine the most effective use of the methodology to satisfy clients and maximize ef- ficiency. “Efficiency is so important that the goal of our project management system is to ‘efficiently’ execute projects. Being efficient is synonymous with being focused and organized. It’s a win-win for our clients and company.” Gateway’s Project Execution Methodology is a collection of project management fundamentals, systems, tools, processes, concepts, and philosophies. Instead of adhering to an off-the-shelf execution methodology, we tailored something unique to our own business. One of our niches is small projects. We do a lot of them and we seek to do them very efficiently! With this systematic approach, it has helped us win in a space where other companies find hardship. RYAN HAYES is the director of business development with Gateway Engineers headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Contact him at rhayes@ gatewayengineers.com.

regardless of their attributes. When applied to a project, even in different ways or with varying intensity, the chance of project success increases exponentially. With these key thoughts and objectives in place, we developed four principles that are the cornerstones of Gateway Engineers’ Project Execution Methodology. ❚ ❚ The project life cycle. The methodology loosely follows the project lifecycle. However, it is not a one-way flowchart or top-down checklist. Gateway views the project lifecycle in broad terms, including activities associated with selling and closing projects. This adheres closely to our strong belief in, and use of, the seller/doer model and allows our project managers to more thoroughly plan their selling and closing efforts. ❚ ❚ Project management fundamentals. Our PEM depicts project management fundamentals. It visually represents the relationship among individual fundamentals and how they fit within our way of executing projects. ❚ ❚ The flexibility principle. The methodology is designed as a framework applicable to all projects. It allows project manag- ers to pick and choose any or all parts of the methodology best suited for each project. The framework design is flexible so projects of all types, sizes, clients, and disciplines could use what is necessary to increase the likelihood of success. ❚ ❚ The framework. Our PEM works best when our project

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