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TRANSACTIONS ATWELL CONTINUES GROWTH IN FLORIDA WITH ACQUISITION OF BANKS ENGINEERING, EXPANDING ENGINEERING, PLANNING, AND SURVEYING SERVICES Atwell has acquired BEI Engineering Group, LLC, doing business as Banks Engineering, a 90-person firm providing civil engineering, planning, and land surveying services. The acquisition of Banks Engineering continues to strengthen Atwell’s resources and capabilities in Florida, specifically in Fort Myers and Port Charlotte. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Banks Engineering has provided Florida with civil engineering, planning, and land surveying for more than 30 years. Founded in 1992, Banks Engineering has supported private sector work for a diverse range of clients throughout the state of Florida. The firm provides professional expertise at every stage, from initial concept to project completion and beyond. “Banks is excited to join the Atwell family,” said Tom Lehnert, President of Banks Engineering. “Banks Engineering

and Atwell share similar values, and the merger will allow us to expand our services to better meet the needs of our clients and provide new opportunities for all of our team members. We look forward to supporting Atwell’s growth in Florida and the Southeast Region.” “We’ve worked with the team members at Banks Engineering for years and have firsthand experience of their excellent work and commitment to clients,” said Ron Waldrop, Senior Vice President at Atwell. “We have added the outstanding professionals at Banks Engineering to our company because we want to continue investing in this market for the benefit of our clients and the success of their projects.” Atwell has significantly expanded its geographic footprint, service offerings, and capabilities through organic growth and strategic acquisitions over the past few years. The acquisition of Banks Engineering follows Atwell’s most recent acquisitions of Summit Engineering, a civil engineering and land surveying firm in Heber City, Utah, and Mead Gilman &

Associates, a land surveying firm located in Woodinville, Washington. Atwell, LLC is a national consulting, engineering, and construction services firm with more than 1,800 professionals located across the country. Creating innovative solutions for clients in industries such as real estate and land development, power and energy, hydrocarbons, and infrastructure, Atwell provides comprehensive turnkey services including land and right-of- way support, planning, landscape architecture, engineering, land surveying, environmental compliance and permitting, natural resources consulting and project and program management. BEI prides itself in providing quality and cost-effective multi-discipline engineering, procurement and construction management services. The firm’s select group of professionals provide industry leading services and solutions for its clients’ upstream, midstream, petrochemical, chemical and refining needs.

do not do this to your boss. Take initiative and recommend a solution (or two) to the problem. An extrapolation of this is to anticipate a request or problem. Then, you are ready to respond even if they do not know what they need. A final thought on this, though – do not give your boss a sanitized version of a problem. When the reality comes out (and it will), they will be surprised and won’t look very good to their peers. “Whether we want to admit it or not, bosses control our professional success. So, having a good working relationship with them is crucial if you want to grow inside your firm.” There are other suggestions, but these are a good start. Whether we want to admit it or not, bosses control our professional success. So, having a good working relationship with them is crucial if you want to grow inside your firm. For one reason, bosses and clients remember who makes them look good. And they will want to continue to work with those people. For another, if our boss succeeds and moves up in the organization, that promotion you’ve been eyeing may have just opened up. Greg Sepeda, retired, was formerly chief engineer and vice president of operations at Sigma Consulting Group, Inc. (a Waggoner Company). Contact him at gpsepeda@gmail.com.

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2. Sometimes, arranging a time to meet with our boss can be a difficult first step. If you think you are busy, know that your bosses (usually) are working just as hard, if not harder. So, try to make it convenient for them. I might schedule a meeting on those Fridays when I know their day is less booked. Learn their preferred communication style. What form of communication do they prefer? Do they prefer email, chat messages, and texts, or do they actually like to talk? Do they only check messages at certain times of the day? Do they prefer to read information or be told the information? I remember one of the things I would do with my former boss was to appreciate his time constraints and try to combine my questions or responses. It worked better for him to talk to me in a slightly longer block of time than in random interruptions. Last, make yourself accessible to them. When they have questions, they will feel just as frustrated if they cannot find you or if you are slow to respond to an email. 3. You’ve heard this before, but I will say it again – be part of the solution, not the problem. I would always ask my team to bring me two or three alternatives to any problem they had. Then, we could talk through them together and settle on a direction. Well, don’t our bosses deserve the same? Think about your workload. How many things on your desk were “delegated” back to you because a team member dropped a problem on your desk, and you told him, “You’d look into it.” These “upward leaping monkeys” keep you from spending time on primary assignments. So

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